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We focus on interactive comedy, a relatively new genre in interactive drama, in this study. To be able to maintain the story, we adopt hierarchical task network planning (HTN) for planning of a character agent. We then extend HTN such that the extended HTN allows for the direct use of character failures, higher interactions with the viewer, and more story variations. Our extensions lead to effective extraction of laughter from the viewer. We test our system with a short visual comedy similar to the popular Mr. BeanTM series.
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Thawonmas, R., Tanaka, K., Hassaku, H. (2003). Extended Hierarchical Task Network Planning for Interactive Comedy. In: Lee, J., Barley, M. (eds) Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. PRIMA 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2891. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39896-7_18
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