Narrative Intelligence
Papers from the 1999 Fall Symposium
Michael Mateas and Phoebe Sengers, Program Cochairs
Technical Report FS-99-01
Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California
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Contents
Narrative Intelligence / 1
Michael Mateas and Phoebe Sengers
A Brief Overview of the Narrative Intelligence Reading Group / 11
Marc Davis and Michael Travers
Understanding Narrative is Like Observing Agents / 17
Guido Boella, Rossana Damiano, and Leonardo Lesmo
Spatial Cognition in Natural-Language Narratives / 21
David Herman
Social Dynamics of Storytelling: Implications for Story-Base Design /26
Deborah Lawrence and John C. Thomas
Stories and Social Networks / 30
Warren Sack
Narrative Theories as Contextual Constraints for Agent Interaction / 38
John F. Meech
Narrative Construction Kits: "Who Am I? Who Are You? What Are We?" / 44
Marina Umaschi Bers
Virtual Babyz: Believable Agents with Narrative Intelligence/ 52
Andrew Stern
The Lemur’s Tale -- Story-Telling in Primates and Other Socially Intelligent Agents / 59
Kerstin Dautenhahn
AGNETA and FRIDA: A Narrative Experience of the Web? / 67
Per Persson
The Victorian Laptop: Narrative Engagement through Place and Time / 72
Justine Cassell and Jennifer Smith
Towards Narrative-Centered Learning Environments / 78
Bradford W. Mott, Charles B. Callaway, Luke S. Zettlemoyer, Seung Y. Lee, and James C. Lester
Narrative in Virtual Environments - Towards Emergent Narrative / 83
Ruth Aylett
Small Talk and Conversational Storytelling in Embodied Conversational Interface Agents / 87
Timothy Bickmore and Justine Cassell
Touring Machines: Guide Agents for Sharing Stories about Digital Places / 93
Katherine Isbister and Patrick Doyle
Narrative for Artifacts: Transcending Context and Self / 101
Chrystopher Nehaniv
BRUTUS and the Narrational Case against Church’s Thesis / 105
Selmer Bringsjord and Dave Ferrucci
Assumptions Underlying the Erasmatron Interactive Storytelling Engine / 112
Chris Crawford
Once Upon a Time / 115
Isabel Machado, Carlos Martinho, and Ana Paiva
The Dr. K--- Project / 120
Brandon J. Rickman
The Rise and Fall of Black Velvet Flag: An "Intelligent" System for Youth Culture Documentary / 124
Sheldon Schiffer
The Chorus as Internalized Objects / 129
Carol Strohecker
A Declarative Model for Simple Narratives / 134
R. Raymond Lang
How to Tell a Logical Story / 142
Michael Schroeder
Interactive Drama on Computer: Beyond Linear Narrative / 150
Nicolas Szilas
Searching for Storiness: Story-Generation from a Reader’s Perspective / 157
Paul Bailey
Notes on the Use of Plan Structures in the Creation of Interactive Plot / 150
R. Michael Young