PRISM: A framework for authoring interactive narratives

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

Abstract

The advances in computing technologies enable the computer users to create and share their own stories to the community at large. However, it is still regarded as complicated and laborious to author interactive narratives, where a story adapts as the user interacts with it. In authoring interactive narratives, two main approaches-branching graphs and AI planning-have been significantly used to augment interactivity into conventional linear narratives. Although each approach offers its own possibilities and limitations, few efforts have been made to blend these approaches. This paper describes a framework for authoring interactive narratives that employs an adapted branching narrative structure that also uses planning formalism to enable automated association between nodes. We expect that our work is valuable for non-expert users as well as AI researchers in interactive storytelling who need to create a large quantity of story contents for varied endings for a story.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInteractive Storytelling - First Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2008, Proceedings
Pages297-308
Number of pages12
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Externally publishedYes
Event1st Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2008 - Erfurt, Germany
Duration: 26 Nov 200829 Nov 2008

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume5334 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference1st Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2008
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityErfurt
Period26/11/0829/11/08

Keywords

  • AI planning
  • Authoring tool
  • Branching narrative
  • Interactive contents
  • Interactive digital storytelling
  • Story graph
  • Story representation

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'PRISM: A framework for authoring interactive narratives'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this