An Oz-Centric Review of Interactive Drama and Believable Agents

Believable agents are autonomous agents that exhibit rich personalities. Interactive dramas take place in virtual worlds inhabited by believable agents with whom an audience interacts. In the course of this interaction, the audience experiences a story. This paper presents the research philosophy behind the Oz Project, a research group at CMU that has spent the last ten years studying believable agents and interactive drama. The paper then surveys current work from an Oz perspective.

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