Acting in character

Abstract

This work was supported by: ARPA Contract N66001-95-D-8642-Subcontract #137-1 through Teknowledge, Inc. and a gift from Intel. The work has benefited from discussions with members of the Virtual Theater research group, especially: Lee Brownston, Daniel Rousseau, Patrick Doyle, and Todd Feldman; and from discussions with Stanford Professors Larry Friedlander (English Literature) and Patricia Ryan (Drama). We thank Ken Perlin of NYU for the use of his animation. A patent application has been filed for the "Method and System of Directed Improvisation by Computer Characters."