Narrative and Meaning in Ordinary Interactive Software

Meaning and the Interactive Narrative: In the context of Object-Oriented Interactive Cinema

Towards an Interactive System Facilitating Therapeutic Narrative Elicitation in Autism

By telling stories to ourselves and others we make sense of the world; not only of events and why they happened, but also of the actions and motivations of ourselves and others. However, people with autism appear to live in a less coherent world; autism is a lifelong pervasive developmental disorder affecting social ability. Experiments have shown that children with autism have specific difficu...

Shades of Computational Evocation and Meaning: The GRIOT System and Improvisational Poetry Generation

GRIOT is a computer program developed to implement systems that output interactive computational narratives. The first systems built in GRIOT allow improvisational generation of poetry in response to user input. The system is based on an approach to computational narrative that builds on research from cognitive linguistics on metaphor and conceptual blending, socio-linguistics on how humans str...

What Are You Going to Do, Talk Me to Death? Exploring the Narrative State in Interactive Entertainment

We present a case study of narrative in an interactive game environment exploring how motivating text is used to create a narrative state in the mind of the player. This state in turn lends meaning to subsequent actions. We examine a set of text blocks from the game that tell a coherent, static story over a small play area and discuss the functions that text serves and the techniques used to ac...

Digital Tools and Personal Engagement in Interactive Narrative Design

This paper presents an approach to interactive narrative design that utilizes the programming capabilities of Macromedia Flash to create web-based “storytelling edit systems” that allow the user to select and construct a narrative experience from a set of provided data ingredients. In creating such an interactive system, designers must delineate audience engagement in traditional narrative, whe...