dynamic stories
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Speaker: Opher Etzion
Dynamic stories:
Blend of creativity: the author, the reader and the computer
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The traditional story writing
A writer is writing the story
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The traditional story writing
The reader is reading it
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The traditional story writing
The computer is used to store, display, sell, provide information…
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Changing the roles
The reader is part of the authoring
The computer is part of the authoring
The writer becomes a choreographer
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The research goal
Applying Artificial Intelligence techniques to see how it can evolve stories
Checking the way that readers evolve stories
Evolving the role of writer to choreographer
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The elementary one: fill in the gaps
Name of a friend
An adjective
A verb ending in 'ed'
A noun
A verb ending in 'ing'
An emotion
Something funny
The name of some food
Name of a friend
A plural noun
A verb
A noun
An adjective
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Branching story
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Event-driven stories
The reader send events, the computer processes them and controls the story.
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The technology Today it is associated with sensors, stock market, autonomic cars and more…
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Stage one: unsolicited branching
The branching is not in decision points but based on the reader’s wishes – different branching in different times – but still predetermined by the author
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Stage two: select between predetermined events
Here – inference work is increased since context can differ in time.
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Event types
Add participant, kill participant, create meeting, create movement…
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Stage 3: Events created by the reader
Here we can get to situations that the author did not imagine – but the computer takes control
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Looking for collaborators Both in the technology side and in the story
building experimentation side
Email: [email protected]