Ambient intelligence is a vision on the future of consumer electronics that refers to the presence of a digital environment that is sensitive, adaptive and responsive to the presence of people. This paper proposes a mass customization strategy to deliver tailor-made ambient intelligence environments on a mass basis. It introduces the idea of an `ambient narrative', defined as an interactive nar...

Interactive narrative is a form of digital interactive experience in which users create or influence a dramatic storyline through their actions. The goal of an interactive narrative system is to immerse the user in a virtual world such that he or she believes that they are an integral part of an unfolding story and that their actions can significantly alter the direction and/or outcome of the s...

Hypervideo is one of several possible ways for interactive non-linear media. In its characteristics it is closely related to the purposes of digital narratives. The techniques of hypervideo could be used for the presentation of digitally told stories and vice versa. Many projects in both fields of work show the impressive possibilities each. But there seems to be a lack of using narrative intel...

Narrative Intelligence (NI) can help computational systems interact with users, such as through story generation, interactive narratives, and believable virtual characters. However, existing NI techniques generally require manually coded domain knowledge, restricting their scalability. An approach that intelligently, automatically and economically acquires script-like knowledge in any domain wi...

Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE) was held October 10–14, 2011, at Stanford University, ajacent to Palo Alto, California. AIIDE is a premier interaction forum for researchers in artificial intelligence and interactive entertainment. The conference, which includes a research and industry track as well as a demonstration program, aims at bringing together both academic and industrial comm...

Abstract Most accounts of responsibility focus on one type responsibility, moral or address particular aspect such as agency. This article outlines a broader framework to think about that includes causal relational and what I call “narrative responsibility” form “hermeneutic responsibility”, connects these notions with different kinds knowledge, disciplines, perspectives human being, shows how ...

Narrative intelligence is fundamental for organizing experiences, understanding our surroundings, and forming predictions about the future [Schank, 1995]. Computational systems that leverage narrative intelligence benefit applications that involve stories including entertainment, education, skill training, and legal decision-making. AI planning research is a popular source of data structures an...

Narrative is a pervasive aspect of human culture, one of the fundamental frameworks by which people view the world and comprehend their experiences. As computers and the Internet play an ever-increasing role in social interaction, education, and entertainment, they introduce novel opportunities for sharing, creating, and understanding stories. The last several years have seen growing interest a...

them to entertain, communicate, convince, and explain. One workshop participant noted that “as far as I know, every society in the world has stories, which suggests they have a psychological basis, that stories do something for you.” To truly understand and explain human intelligence, reasoning, and beliefs, we need to understand why narrative is universal and explain the function it serves. Co...