# How do Ware, Young et al. define narrative conflict inside a causal-link plan (CPOCL), what are the seven conflict dimensions, what did the two human studies measure, and what can an outliner reuse?

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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 li...

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.

Curator 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. Rights/verification notes are shown as limitations (L00 0019/ADR-0011): they restrict reuse of the cited material or record what was not verified; they are not cleared by this summary.

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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://cs.uky.edu/~sgware/reading/papers/ware2014conflict.pdf",
      "note": "see curator disposition"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://cs.uky.edu/~sgware/reading/papers/ware2011cpocl.pdf",
      "note": "see curator disposition"
    }
  ]
}
```

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- [sourced_fact] 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. · locator: see curator disposition · source: https://cs.uky.edu/~sgware/reading/papers/ware2014conflict.pdf

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