‘Implicit Creation’ – Non-Programmer Conceptual Models for Authoring in Interactive Digital Storytelling Ulrike Martina Spierling Interactive Digital Storytelling (IDS) constitutes a research field that emerged from several areas of art, creation and computer science. It inquires technologies and possible artefacts that allow ‘highly-interactive’ experiences of digital worlds with compelling st...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To develop a nurse-led storytelling intervention for patients with cancer and implement the intervention using trained oncology nurses. DESIGN Descriptive pilot project using qualitative methods to assess implementation of an intervention tool kit, with investigators blinded to control and intervention group membership. SETTING Local regional medical center in the Pacific...

In contrast to full-blown emotions, storytelling speech entails a particular speaking style that contains subtle expressive nuances of which little is known. In the present work, we study the role of prosody and voice quality while searching for crosslinguistic acoustic similarities in two categories of storytelling speech that are defined by their lexical components: the descriptive mode and s...

This article introduces OPARIS, an OPen ARchitecture for Interactive Storytelling, which aims at facilitating and fostering the integration of various and heterogeneous Interactive Storytelling components. It is based on a modular decomposition of functionalities and a specification of the various messages that different modules exchange with each other.

In this paper we introduce the notion of character’s values to mediate between agents and story direction in storytelling systems. By relating characters’ goals with their values, the activation of goals depends on the values that are put at stake by the story incidents. Based on this framework, we propose a reference architecture for value–based interactive storytelling.

Companies today are expected to engage in corporate social responsibility (CSR) and they spend a lot of time, money, and other resources on these tasks. However, in relation to their investment, the gain for most companies is marginal, because their efforts are only perceived by a small number of people. In this paper, our goal is to improve on this situation by involving a greater number of pe...

The mobile internet expands the immersive potential of storytelling by introducing electronic games powered by portable, location-aware interfaces. Mobile gaming has become the latest iteration in a decades-long evolution of electronic games that seek to empower the player not just as an avatar in a gameworld but also as a co-author of that gameworld, alongside the game’s original designers. Lo...

With the revolution of information and communication technology (ICT), various digital means have been explored to interact and share life experiences with others. Among them, digital storytelling is a pioneering technique that allows ordinary people to share their stories from unique, personal perspectives. Digital storytelling is being effectively utilized in education, health, and for politi...

This position paper brings forth the hypothesis that it is possible to use results from the social psychology’s area of persuasion in order to influence the player of an interactive story in predictable ways. Several important concepts of persuasion such as how people make decisions, and how can we influence the process of decision are discussed. We end with a proposal on how to apply these res...