Most storytelling systems to date rely on manually coded knowledge, the cost of which usually restricts such systems to operate within a few domains where knowledge has been engineered. Open Story Generation systems are capable of learning knowledge necessary for telling stories in a given domain. In this paper, we describe a technique that generates and communicates stories in language with di...

Storytelling is a new way to guide museum visitors, where the traditional set of exhibit-centric descriptions is replaced by storycentric cohesive narrations with carefully-designed references to the exhibits. Personalized storytelling customizes the narrations according to different user characteristics, either statically or dynamically during the visit. In this paper, we describe the basic el...

Although recent years have seen an explosion in educational technology, there is still a lack of computational tools specifically designed to encourage exploration of identity and communication issues. Storytelling is a good medium for this type of exploration as it enables reflection about the inner world. This paper presents a new approach to interactive storytelling: SAGE (Storytelling Agent...

The purpose of this article is to describe a storytelling project that was designed to help community-dwelling older adults find meaning and purpose in their lives through reminiscing about the past. The storytelling project was successful not only for the older adults who participated but also for the nursing students, who were given an opportunity to learn about interviewing and communicating...

Interacting Storytelling systems integrate AI techniques such as planning with narrative representations to generate stories. In this paper, we discuss the use of planning formalisms in Interactive Storytelling from the perspective of story generation and authoring. We compare two different planning formalisms, Hierarchical Task Network (HTN) planning and Heuristic Search Planning (HSP). While ...

Cancer educators should pursue strategies to improve African American women's adherence to breast cancer screening. Successful educational approaches consider the cultural context and belief systems of African Americans. Storytelling provides a forum in which women teach one another through personal testimony. The Witness Project of St. Louis created an innovative approach to storytelling, pant...

Emotion, as one of the major factors in creating engaging user experience, has been widely studied in interactive storytelling. Effort has been made mainly in two approaches, which are modeling emotions for believable virtual characters and capturing user emotions to generate affect-based interactive narrative. This paper provides an overview of emotion research in interactive storytelling in t...

Storytelling is an important method of communication at all stages of life. Sharing narratives about lived events and experiences provides topics of conversation and opportunities for connecting with other people. In this paper we apply a conventional model of story telling to the verbal reminiscences of older people with a dementia diagnosis. Their stories retain the conventional structure, su...

Abstract. Interactive Digital Storytelling (IDS) is a growing hybrid discipline bringing together computer games and cinematic storytelling enabling entertaining education. CeRC developed IDS game “Edugame4All” to improve children understanding of hygiene and responsible antibiotic use. This short paper presents an evaluation results assessing knowledge gain against the project prescribed learn...