English 1028F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Turing Test, Interactive Fiction

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 1028F/G
• Professor: Christopher Keep

Document Summary

Sense of being in the game characterized by the person"s thoughts, attention and goals are all focused in and around the game as opposed to anything else. Many games are based to fulfill your needs, your own success is the primary goal of many games. Put into a story world and put into someone else"s shoes and begin to empathize. Emotional immersion offers a mode of interactivity distinct from spatial, epistemic and temporal immersion. One based not on meaningful actions or purposeful navigation, but on what we might call one"s presence in the game world. Emotional immersion = making you feel as if you are living in this world. Narrative enigmas must be done through dialogue. Have to make conversation for a bit until she actually connect with you. Galatea-eliza connection is central to this text. When galatea = computer person and non-human. Emotional immersion in galatea is a function of believability of galatea"s artificial intelligence.