Autonomous production of personalized video summaries To produce condensed video reports of a sporting event, the system selects the temporal segments corresponding to actions that are worth being included in the summary based on three factors: • Completeness stands for both the integrity of view rendering in camera/viewpoint selection, and that of story-telling in summary. • Smoothness refers ...

This paper addresses Narrative Intelligence from a bottom up, Artificial Life perspective. First, different levels of narrative intelligence are discussed in the context of human and robotic story-tellers. Then, we introduce a computational framework which is based on minimal definitions of stories, story-telling and autobiographic agents. An experimental test-bed is described which is applied ...

This paper will describe technical developments within the Kidstory project aimed at moving the technology used within schools to aid the acquisition of storytelling skills in young children away from the model of one or two children sitting in front of a monitor. We are aiming towards scenarios of larger groups interacting naturally with responsive objects that hide the manner in which they co...

This paper discusses the conceptual background of a research project which aims at investigating how theories on autobiographical memory can be applied to a virtual environment, e.g. Brightown, and how such an approach could 1) create an interesting virtual environment which 2) meets the cognitive needs of its users and their way of representing, encoding and reconstructing memories in terms of...

A narrative or a story (and these terms are synonyms) is a fundamental way of understanding our environment and relationships in it and thus it is a key feature of sound research whatever methodological approach has been taken. The skills of story telling are important in both qualitative or interpretive and quantitative research. But it comes into its own in qualitative research where story te...