DocumentCode
1972050
Title
The Thing Growing: autonomous characters in virtual reality interactive fiction
Author
Anstey, Josephine ; Pape, Dave ; Sandin, Dan
Author_Institution
Electron. Visualization Lab., Chicago Univ., IL, USA
fYear
2000
fDate
2000
Firstpage
71
Lastpage
78
Abstract
This paper describes “The Thing Growing”, a work of interactive fiction implemented in virtual reality, in which the user is the main protagonist and interacts with computer controlled characters. This work of fiction depends on the user´s emotional investment in the story and on her relationship to a central character, the Thing
Keywords
virtual reality; The Thing Growing; autonomous characters; computer controlled character interaction; user emotional investment; virtual reality interactive fiction; Animation; Automatic control; Computer displays; Humans; Intelligent agent; Investments; Laboratories; Virtual environment; Virtual reality; Visualization;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Virtual Reality, 2000. Proceedings. IEEE
Conference_Location
New Brunswick, NJ
ISSN
1087-8270
Print_ISBN
0-7695-0478-7
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/VR.2000.840366
Filename
840366
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