Towards Lifelong Interactive Learning For Open-Ended Co-creative Embodied Narrative Improvisation

This article describes a doctoral research plan for modeling the co-creative improvisation of open-ended embodied narratives in two ongoing research projects called LuminAI and GENII. The research focuses on mitigating the knowledge-authoring bottleneck involved using lifelong interactive learning from observation and experience. The research methodology involves building co-creative systems for human computer embodied narrative improv, public installation/exhibition/dissemination in order to collect realworld datasets of human-computer improv, humancentered evaluation of the experience in public/lab settings, and evaluation of the agent learning/performance using the collected data sets. The article concludes with a research timeline describing the ongoing work.