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Study 1 (27 respondents, 23 finishing all three stories) found CPOCL's conflicts a superset of those readers reported; Study 2 (30 respondents) found the formula-predicted ordering was the top-ranked human ordering for balance, directness and resolution and fifth-ranked for stakes. The authors note durative actions and abstraction mismatches as li...","status":"active","body":{"text":"Ware and colleagues (IEEE T-CIAIG 2014) define conflict as a character forming a plan that is thwarted by another event, or would have been thwarted. In a plan with causal links and intention frames, a conflict is a threatened causal link in one character's subplan where at least one of the threatening or threatened steps is never executed; internal, external and environmental conflicts differ by who owns the threatening step (same character, another character, Fate/happening). Seven dimensions classify a conflict: participants, reason and duration (observable) and balance, directness, stakes and resolution (continuous 0-1 style measures). Study 1 (27 respondents, 23 finishing all three stories) found CPOCL's conflicts a superset of those readers reported; Study 2 (30 respondents) found the formula-predicted ordering was the top-ranked human ordering for balance, directness and resolution and fifth-ranked for stakes. The authors note durative actions and abstraction mismatches as limits.\n\nCurator qualifications: Curator pdftotext: 'conflict occurs when a character forms a plan that is thwarted / by another event in the story' (lines 98-99, column wrap); 'a causal link can never have a nonexecuted step / as its tail and an executed step as its head' (243-245); 'strict superset' 1 (line 664); 'Twenty seven people' 1; 'Balance measures the relative likelihood' 1; 'Personal use is permitted' 1. 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