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What do openly readable empirical studies report about how readers or models track a character's changing traits through a story, and what remains unmeasured?

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No open-access experiment that directly manipulates character change and measures reader perception was found (bounded to the searches listed). What open papers do report: PersoNet (ACL 2023) builds a dataset of readers' notes about characters' traits at a reading position and finds that humans who know the book history reach more than 70% accuracy versus about 45% for the best model, and that oracle history traits are limited because characters' personalities evolve; BookWorm (EMNLP Findings 2024) finds models handle static aspects (role, personality) better than dynamic ones (events, relationships); TimeChara (2024) shows role-playing LLMs break point-in-time consistency. These are NLP benchmark results on proxies, not direct tests of perceived transformation.

No open-access experiment that directly manipulates character change and measures reader perception was found (bounded to the searches listed). What open papers do report: PersoNet (ACL 2023) builds a dataset of readers' notes about characters' traits at a reading position and finds that humans who know the book history reach more than 70% accuracy versus about 45% for the best model, and that oracle history traits are limited because characters' personalities evolve; BookWorm (EMNLP Findings 2024) finds models handle static aspects (role, personality) better than dynamic ones (events, relationships); TimeChara (2024) shows role-playing LLMs break point-in-time consistency. These are NLP benchmark results on proxies, not direct tests of perceived transformation. Curator qualifications: All excerpts located; empirical trait-change tracking studies. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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  • [sourced_fact] No open-access experiment that directly manipulates character change and measures reader perception was found (bounded to the searches listed). What open papers do report: PersoNet (ACL 2023) builds a dataset of readers' notes about characters' traits at a reading position and finds that humans who know the book history reach more than 70% accuracy versus about 45% for the best model, and that oracle history traits are limited because characters' personalities evolve; BookWorm (EMNLP Findings 2024) finds models handle static aspects (role, personality) better than dynamic ones (events, relationships); TimeChara (2024) shows role-playing LLMs break point-in-time consistency. These are NLP benchmark results on proxies, not direct tests of perceived transformation. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts source

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