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This paper describes an agent-based approach to realizing interactive pedagogical drama. Characters choose their actions autonomously, while director and cinematographer agents manage the action and its presentation in order to maintain story structure, achieve pedagogical goals, and present the dynamic story to as to achieve the best dramatic effect. Artistic standards must be maintained while permitting substantial variability in story scenario. To achieve these objectives, scripted dialog is deconstructed into elements that are portrayed by agents with emotion models. Learners influence how the drama unfolds by controlling the intentions of one or more characters, who then behave in accordance with those intentions. Interactions between characters create opportunities to move the story in pedagogically useful directions, which the automated director exploits. This approach is realized in the multimedia title Carmen’s Bright IDEAS, an interactive health intervention designed to improve the problem solving skills of mothers of pediatric cancer patients. Keywords Believability; communication, collaboration, and interaction of humans and agents; lifelike qualities; modeling the behavior of other agents; models of emotion, motivation, or personality; synthetic agents 1.
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