Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment

1. Front Matter

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2. Keynote Speech

   1. Embodied Agents and Meaningful Motion

      • Norman I. Badler

      Pages 1-2

3. Interactive Storytelling

   1. Natural Language Understanding in Façade: Surface-Text Processing

      • Michael Mateas, Andrew Stern

      Pages 3-13

   2. Stepping into the Interactive Drama

      • Nicolas Szilas

      Pages 14-25

   3. From Another Point of View: Art-E-Fact

      • Ido Iurgel

      Pages 26-35

   4. 1, 2, 3 .... Action! Directing Real Actors and Virtual Characters

      • Isabel Machado, Paul Brna, Ana Paiva

      Pages 36-41

   5. Object Oriented Prompted Play (O2P2): A Pragmatic Approach to Interactive Narrative

      • Daniel Roberts, Mark Wright

      Pages 42-47

   6. Transferring Game Mastering Laws to Interactive Digital Storytelling

      • Federico Peinado, Pablo Gervás

      Pages 48-54

   7. Narrativity of User Experience

      • Shachindra Nath

      Pages 55-60

   8. Integrated Decision Points for Interactive Movies

      • Gabriela Tully, Susan Turner

      Pages 61-67

4. Virtual Human

   1. Autonomous Virtual Actors

      • Stéphane Sanchez, Olivier Balet, Hervé Luga, Yves Duthen

      Pages 68-78

   2. Virtual Human: Storytelling and Computer Graphics for a Virtual Human Platform

      • Stefan Göbel, Oliver Schneider, Ido Iurgel, Axel Feix, Christian Knöpfle, Alexander Rettig

      Pages 79-88

   3. Evaluation of a Virtual Narrator’s Expressiveness in Terms of Suspense Signaling

      • Norbert Braun, Thomas Rieger

      Pages 89-94

   4. Emotional Characters for Automatic Plot Creation

      • Mariët Theune, Sander Rensen, Rieks op den Akker, Dirk Heylen, Anton Nijholt

      Pages 95-100

5. Authoring

   1. Writing Interactive Fiction Scenarii with DraMachina

      • Stéphane Donikian, Jean-Noël Portugal

      Pages 101-112

   2. A Toolkit for Authoring Non-linear Storytelling Environments Using Mixed Reality

      • Daniel F. Abawi, Silvan Reinhold, Ralf Dörner

      Pages 113-118

   3. Learning from the Movie Industry: Adapting Production Processes for Storytelling in VR

      • Richard Wages, Benno Grützmacher, Stefan Conrad

      Pages 119-125

   4. A System to Compose Movies for Cross-Cultural Storytelling: Textable Movie

      • Catherine Vaucelle, Glorianna Davenport

      Pages 126-131

6. Mobile

   1. Hopstory: An Interactive, Location-Based Narrative Distributed in Space and Time

      • Valentina Nisi, Alison Wood, Glorianna Davenport, Ian Oakley

      Pages 132-141

   2. Mobile Entertainment Computing

      • Christian Geiger, Volker Paelke, Christian Reimann

      Pages 142-147

Interactive Digital Storytelling has evolved as a prospering research topic banding together formerly disjointed disciplines stemming from the arts and humanities as well as computer science. It’s tied up with the notion of storytelling as an effective means for the communication of knowledge and social values since the existence of humankind. It also builds a bridge between current academic trends investigating and formalizing computer games, and developments towards the experience-based design of human-media interaction in general. In Darmstadt, a first national workshop on Digital Storytelling was organized by ZGDV e.V. in 2000, which at that time gave an impression about the breadth of this new research field for computer graphics (DISTEL 2000). An international follow-up was planned: the 1st International Conference on Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment (TIDSE 2003). Taking place in March 2003, it showed a more focussed range of research specifically on concepts and first pro- types for automated storytelling and autonomous characters, including modelling of emotions and the user experience. At TIDSE 2004, an established and still-growing community of researchers ga- ered together to exchange results and visions. This confirms the construction of a series of European conferences on the topic – together with the International Conf- ence on Virtual Storytelling, ICVS (conducted in 2001 and 2003 in France) – which will be further cultivated.

• 3D
• Augmented Reality
• Mixed Reality
• Virtual Environments
• animation
• autonomous actors
• computer games
• computer graphics
• edutainment
• emotional characters
• entertainment computing
• interactive digital storytelling
• narrative systems
• virtual characters
• virtual reality

• Digital Storytelling Dept, ZGDV e.V., Darmstadt, Germany

  Stefan Göbel

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

  Ulrike Spierling

• Digital Storytelling Department, ZGDV Darmstadt e.V., Darmstadt, Germany

  Anja Hoffmann, Axel Feix

• Zentrum für Graphische Datenverarbeitung, Darmstadt, Germany

  Ido Iurgel

• Zentrum für Graphische Datenverarbeitung e.V., Darmstadt, Germany

  Oliver Schneider

• Digital Storytelling Department, ZGDV e.V. - Computer Graphics Center, Darmstadt, Germany

  Johanna Dechau

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