Gestural Interactions for Interactive Narrative Co-Creation

This paper describes a gestural approach to interacting with interactive narrative characters that supports co-creativity. It describes our approach using a Microsoft Kinect to created a short scene with an intelligent avatar and an AIcontrolled actor. It describes our preliminary user studies and a recommendation for future evaluation.

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