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...

This study explored associations between the five-factor personality traits of human subjects and their feelings of rapport when they interacted with a virtual agent or real humans. The agent, the Rapport Agent, responded to real human speakers’ storytelling behavior, using only nonverbal contingent (i.e., timely) feedback. We further investigated how interactants’ personalities were related to...

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...

Audio-visual narratives are becoming the most popular medium for information sharing and social storytelling around a live event. This paper explores the collective experience of users of an online creative storytelling ecosystem. The system provides an ideal platform to study community-driven story co-authoring helped by social networks and networked media, as highlighted in an eventbased user...

At the intersection of multimedia, artificial intelligence, and gaming technology, new visions of future entertainment media arise that approximate the “Holodeck” ® idea of interactive storytelling. We report exploratory experiments on the user experience in a ‘classic’, foundational application of interactive storytelling, “Façade” (Mateas & Stern, 2002), and compare results with an identical ...

Design/methodology/approach – Eight interviews were undertaken to investigate storytelling in user interpretations of the images. Following this, storytelling was explored as an indexing input method. Twenty-six research subjects were asked to create stories about the images, which were then considered in relation to conventional story elements and in relation to Rafferty and Hidderley’s 2005 i...

Collective storytelling is a narrative form that has cultural, cognitive, and organizational applications. Built on existing research in group collaboration, this short paper examines how certain game mechanics can be used to encourage and structure collaboration in StoryJam, a multi-player online game for collective storytelling.