- Title
- Scripting humour in conversational agents: improvisation and emergence of humorous interchanges
- Creator
- Meany, Michael M.; Clark, Tom
- Relation
- International Journal of the Arts in Society Vol. 5, Issue 5, p. 225-235
- Relation
- http://ija.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.85/prod.694
- Publisher
- Common Ground
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2011
- Description
- This paper describes a creative project that will develop a pair of online computer-based conversational agents to interact as ‘comedian’ and ‘straight man’. The project will interrogate the scriptwriting process as it is applied in a new media environment at the confluence of human and nonhuman agency. In the context of this paper the term ‘scriptwriter’ carries two inter-related definitions: first, as a producer and crafter of dialogue for a character; and second, as a developer of computer script to guide the interactions of the conversational agents. It can be argued that the scriptwriter (in both guises) is part of a larger system of circular causality and is thus embedded within structures that both constrain and enable their actions (Boden 1994, 2004; Bourdieu 1993; Giddens 1979) and makes intentional choices to achieve particular aims or outcomes. The interaction of the conversational agents is a result of a creative practice that allows for the emergence of improvised responses based on scripted dialogue choices. This paper will explore the inter-related issues of scriptwriting, emergence, and improvisation in a new media environment.
- Subject
- new media; conversational agents; artificial intelligence; emergence; humour; scriptwriting
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/936370
- Identifier
- uon:12289
- Identifier
- ISSN:1833-1866
- Language
- eng
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