Player Modeling in the Interactive Drama Architecture

ii.. to my loving kitty and our infant daughter Acknowledgments The work presented here is the culmination of nearly a seven year journey from start to finish; far longer than I would have guessed when arriving in Michigan in the summer of 1999. I would like to thank my advisor, Professor John E. Laird, who has proven to be an excellent mentor and guide during my time as a graduate student. Without him, my writing would be much more obfuscated, my reasoning would be more poorly constructed, and I definitely would not have been as able to pursue such a non-traditional research topic. Prof. Laird gave me the perfect opportunity to apply my academic interests in creativity, improvisation, and artificial intelligence in an exciting new way, which I am wholly grateful for. I would like to thank Professor Edmund H. Durfee, as well as the rest of my committee, for pushing me to improve my work and to think about this research in a more critical light. Thanks to the Institute for Creative Technologies for funding th