Interactive Content Story Map Merging Branching and Planning Schemes
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing technologies for creating interactive content struggle to balance scenario quality and user interaction, as branching graph schemes ensure high scenario quality but limit interaction, while planning schemes provide greater interaction but compromise on scenario quality and are difficult to author and maintain.
Innovation Solution
A storage medium and apparatus that utilize a combination of branching graph and planning schemes through story map information to connect content units, allowing for conditional branches and pre-conditions/post-conditions to form explicit story plots and reflect user interaction, enabling both high scenario quality and increased user interaction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If a branching graph scheme is used to ensure high scenario quality, then the narrative structure and plot coherence are improved, but user interaction freedom is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the branching graph scheme and planning scheme into a unified interactive content structure. The branching graph provides the explicit story plot with conditional branches for narrative coherence, while the planning scheme handles user interactions and state transitions. This combination allows the system to maintain high scenario quality through the branching graph's structured narrative while simultaneously providing greater user interaction freedom through the planning scheme's flexible state management and condition-based content unit selection.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a planning scheme is used to provide greater user interaction, then user freedom and customization are improved, but scenario quality and narrative coherence deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines both schemes so that the planning scheme manages user interactions and state transitions while the branching graph scheme maintains narrative coherence. The story map information includes both conditional branches from the branching graph and pre-conditions/post-conditions from the planning scheme, allowing the system to adapt to user inputs while preserving story quality through the structured narrative framework.
3Adaptability or versatility
If a planning scheme is used to enable flexible interactions, then user customization is improved, but authoring complexity and maintenance difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the interactive content into discrete content units with associated pre-conditions and post-conditions. Each content unit is an independent element that can be authored and managed separately. The story map information connects these segmented units through conditional logic, allowing authors to work with manageable individual components rather than complex monolithic structures, thereby reducing authoring complexity while maintaining flexible user interaction capabilities.
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AI summary
A storage medium to store interactive content may include at least one content unit and interactive content including story map information, the story map information selectively connecting the at least one content unit according to conditions to form a story.