Interactive Storytelling

1. Front Matter

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2. Future Perspectives on Interactive Digital Storytelling (Keynotes)

   1. Embracing the Combinatorial Explosion: A Brief Prescription for Interactive Story R&D

      • Andrew Stern

      Pages 1-5

   2. Interactive Narrative, Plot Types, and Interpersonal Relations

      • Marie-Laure Ryan

      Pages 6-13

   3. The IRIS Network of Excellence: Integrating Research in Interactive Storytelling

      • Marc Cavazza, Stéphane Donikian, Marc Christie, Ulrike Spierling, Nicolas Szilas, Peter Vorderer et al.

      Pages 14-19

3. Interactive Storytelling Applications

   1. Mobile Urban Drama – Setting the Stage with Location Based Technologies

      • Frank Allan Hansen, Karen Johanne Kortbek, Kaj Grønbæk

      Pages 20-31

   2. Say Anything: A Massively Collaborative Open Domain Story Writing Companion

      • Reid Swanson, Andrew S. Gordon

      Pages 32-40

   3. Locating Drama: A Demonstration of Location-Aware Audio Drama

      • Nye Parry, Helen Bendon, Stephen Boyd Davis, Magnus Moar

      Pages 41-43

   4. Lies and Seductions

      • Petri Lankoski, Tommi Horttana

      Pages 44-47

   5. Animation-Based Interactive Storytelling System

      • Kaoru Sumi

      Pages 48-50

   6. Dear Esther: An Interactive Ghost Story Built Using the Source Engine

      • Dan Pinchbeck

      Pages 51-54

   7. Walking the Edit – A Research Project of the Master Cinema Network in Switzerland

      • Ulrich Fischer

      Pages 55-58

4. Virtual Characters and Agents

   1. 3D Immersion in Virtual Agents Education

      • Cyril Brom, Jakub Gemrot, Ondřej Burkert, Rudolf Kadlec, Michal Bída

      Pages 59-70

   2. Exploring Non-verbal Behavior Models for Believable Characters

      • Magy Seif El-Nasr, Huaxin Wei

      Pages 71-82

   3. Revisiting Character-Based Affective Storytelling under a Narrative BDI Framework

      • Federico Peinado, Marc Cavazza, David Pizzi

      Pages 83-88

   4. VirtualActor: Endowing Virtual Characters with a Repertoire for Acting

      • Ido A. Iurgel

      Pages 89-91

   5. Steps towards a Generic Interface between Interactive Storytelling Applications and Character Animation Engines

      • Sebastian A. Weiß, Florian Berger, Alexander Marbach, Wolfgang Müller

      Pages 92-95

5. User Experience and Dramatic Immersion

   1. Looking at the Interactive Narrative Experience through the Eyes of the Participants

      • David Milam, Magy Seif El-Nasr, Ron Wakkary

      Pages 96-107

   2. Play and Narration as Patterns of Meaning Construction: Theoretical Foundation and Empirical Evaluation of the User Experience of Interactive Films

      • Regina Friess

      Pages 108-113

   3. Trying to Get Trapped in the Past – Exploring the Illusion of Presence in Virtual Drama

      • Georg Struck, Ralf Böse, Ulrike Spierling

      Pages 114-125

   4. The Functions of Music in Interactive Media

      • Axel Berndt, Knut Hartmann

      Pages 126-131

This volume contains scientific papers and case studies presented at Interactive Sto- telling ’08: The First Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS), held November 26–29, 2008, in Erfurt, Germany. Interactive Digital Storytelling (IDS) is a cross-disciplinary topic, which explores new uses of interactive technologies for creating and experiencing narratives. IDS is also a huge step forward in games and learning. This can be seen through its ability to enrich virtual characters with intelligent behavior, to allow collaboration of humans and machines in the creative process, and to combine narrative knowledge and user activity in interactive artifacts. IDS involves concepts from many aspects of Computer Science, above all from Artificial Intelligence, with topics such as narrative intelligence, automatic dialogue and drama management, and smart graphics. In order to process stories in real time, traditional storytelling needs to be formalized into computable models by drawing from narratological studies. As it is currently hardly accessible for creators and e- users, there is a need for new authoring concepts and tools supporting the creation of such dynamic stories, allowing for rich and meaningful interaction with the content.

• AI planning
• GPS
• Immersion
• Racter
• agents
• authoring tools
• autonomous agents
• camera control
• cartography
• character animation
• collaborative storytelling
• geo-localisation
• int
• user experience
• user experience (UX)

• FH Erfurt, University of Applied Sciences, Erfurt, Germany

  Ulrike Spierling

• TECFA, FPSE, University of Geneva, Genève 4, Switzerland

  Nicolas Szilas

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