{"id":438,"date":"2017-09-13T14:50:15","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T14:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/?p=49"},"modified":"2017-10-21T23:57:04","modified_gmt":"2017-10-21T23:57:04","slug":"designing-natural-language-game-conversations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/?p=438","title":{"rendered":"Designing Natural-Language Game Conversations (2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Abstract<\/h3>\n<p>This paper reports on LabLabLab\u2019s three year experience in game-design oriented research on interactive dialogue with non-playing characters and developing natural-language conversational games. It explores the specific affordances and constraints of natural-language interaction for game conversations and offers strategies for their effective design. It also examines the general notion of conversational puzzle and proposes interface-agnostic design approaches founded on the concepts of cognitive conflict and conversational moves.<\/p>\n<p>Proceedings of FDG-DIGRA. Dundee: UK, 2016.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Lessard_2016_Designing-Natural-Language-Game-Conversations.pdf\">Download it here.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Keywords<\/h3>\n<p>Game design, natural language interaction, dialogue systems, narrative design, interactive storytelling, conversational games, conversational puzzle, conversational move, cognitive conflict, conversation modeling, puzzle design<\/p>\n<h3>Authors<\/h3>\n<p>Lessard, Jonathan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract This paper reports on LabLabLab\u2019s three year experience in game-design oriented research on interactive dialogue with non-playing characters and developing natural-language conversational games. It explores the specific affordances and constraints of natural-language interaction for game conversations and offers strategies for their effective design. It also examines the general notion of conversational puzzle and proposes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":61,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper","tag-jonathan-lessard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511,"href":"https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}