Historically, architecture’s cultural role has changed in sometimes radical ways. A theory of contemporary architecture must deal with the proliferation of information and communication technologies, seeking a transformed role for the physical setting in a digital age. This paper reviews perspectives from computational disciplines, proposes the outline of a theory of interactive architecture, a...

xploiting a networked virtual environment (NVE) architecture, we produced the gaming part of an interactive television drama series, Typo-Toons. For decades TV-showmakers have been inventing tools and tricks to enhance the stories they tell (slow motion, repeated action, various cameras, moving cameras, commentators, picture in picture, voiceover, graphics overlays, and so on). Equivalents of, ...

This paper presents the paradigm of interactive and cooperative sensing and control as a fundamental mechanism of integrating and fusing the strengths of man and machine for advanced teleopemtion. The interactive and cooperative sensing and control is considered as an extended and generalized form of traded and shared control. The emphasis of interactive and cooperative sensing and control is g...

Interactive virtual environments are becoming increasingly popular for their utility in virtual training, distributed decision-making and collaborative environments. Some of these applications rely on a scenario that is revealed to the user as he/she interacts with synthetic objects and characters that inhabit virtual worlds. The development and authoring of interactive dynamic scenarios is oft...

Computer-based highly interactive drama involves different authoring approaches, compared to linear media. Underlying design principles needs to be understood in order to guide the authoring process, to teach authors and to design better systems. This paper identifies a fundamental design principle termed Structural Writing that underlies some of the most generative approaches in interactive dr...

We report on the development of a generic application for interactive electronic negotiations in the supply chain. We introduce the concept of interactive bilateral multiattribute electronic negotiations and explain its significance. We specify an application architecture for this domain, showing three main components and four interfaces. We apply the ebXML framework to model the negotiation pr...

Interactive stories face a famous “authorial bottleneck.” Two existing approaches to this problem are story management systems, such as drama managers, and interactive narrative generators. Existing work leverages well-understood qualities of linear narrative such as suspense to generate content, but interactivity brings new capacities, like the ability to make a player experience regret. These...