This paper reports on interdisciplinary findings and first results of the ongoing EU-funded R&D project “art-E-fact”. Within the project, a generic platform for building a particular genre of Mixed Reality interactive storytelling experiences is under development. It enables artists to script interactive dialogues for multiple virtual characters and a human participant, as well as to freely des...

Since the early 2000s social media has transformed internet into a site for exchange of stories through mass democratization publishing. And yet, new forms digital and online storytelling have at same time compromised one core functions storytelling, namely its aspect, ability to build community when two or more people share in space, time, breathing air. Somewhat ironically advent may broadene...

What are the boundaries between traditional and new media, between ability and disability, and between the artist and the processes for making art? This article reports findings from a study of tablet devices as media for self-expression and visual storytelling by adults with intellectual disabilities and examined whether or not artmaking processes were altered by the use of tablet devices when...

This paper discusses the teaching of screenwriting and storytelling in terms art craft. It argues that since Romanticism established itself 19th century as dominant Western view on culture, it has driven a wedge between people’s notions craft, promoting former demoting latter. rift impeded general. Following this, historians sociologists have suggested developing “third system art,” one reinteg...

Recently, computational systems began approaching challenges that were previously considered to lay exclusively in the human creative domain, such as the art of storytelling and lyrics writing. In this paper, we explore combining these two art forms through the automated creation of ballads. We introduce MABLE (MexicA’s BaLlad machinE), based on the plot generation system, MEXICA. Integrating b...

This paper describes a groupware prototype addressing the alternative resolution of legal conflicts. The groupware prototype integrates the storytelling and argumentation models with the legal process, accomplishing two major complementary objectives: eliciting spontaneous and informal explanations about the conflict, while contributing to the process with correct inferences and logic. The pape...