Rethinking textuality, mimesis, and the cognitive processing of texts in light of new modes of
artistic world construction. Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative …

This book offers a unique model for understanding the cognitive underpinnings, interactions
and discursive effects of our evolving use of smartphones in everyday app-mediated …

The genres of digital narrative are, if not innumerable like the genres of narratives, at least
very varied. They in clude stories generated by artificial intelligence (AI) sys tems, which …

There is a peculiar method in the area of procedural narrative called emergent narrative:
instead of automatically inventing stories or deploying authored narrative content, a system …

Computer games can involve narrative and story elements integrating different forms of
interactivity and using different strategies for combining interaction with non-interactive story …

The connections between the concepts of emergence and narrative are manifold, complex
and significantly non-obvious, but in one context at least they come together explicitly: the …

To understand how narratives may best be implemented in video game design, first we must
understand how players respond to and experience narratives in video games, including …

We introduce a research framework for the design of interactive experiences in the domain
of emergent narrative, an application area of computational narrative in which stories …

Is there such a thing as an interactive story? It all depends on who you ask. In the years
2003 and 2004, four books have been published on the topic of interactive narrative. Two of …

We trace the history of emergent narrative as both a term and a concept, with a particular
focus on interactive emergent narrative (IEN): the use of emergent narrative as an approach …