What Happens Next?: Toward an Empirical Investigation of Improvisational Theatre

We are engaging in the experimental study of improvisational actors in order to fully comprehend and computationally model what actors do during improvisational performances. Our goal is to fill in the gaps of our understanding of creativity and improvisation and to begin to integrate engineering methods with the theory and practice of acting. This paper presents the current methodological issues of a new experimental study of cognition in improvisational acting.

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