Computers are often used as tools to design, implement, and even visualize a variety of
narrative forms. Many researchers and artists are now further attempting to engage the …

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 …

Abstract In The Painting Fool project, we aim to build an automated painter which is taken
seriously as a creative artist in its own right, one day. We report here the most recent …

Stories in released games are still based largely on static and predetermined structures,
despite decades of academic work to make them more dynamic. Making game narratives …

Stories are made to be told, yet the computational generation of stories has principally
focused on stories as textual artifacts, rather than on the telling, or indeed the performance …

In mixed-initiative computational storytelling, stories are authored using a given vocabulary
that must be understood by both author and computer. In practice, this vocabulary is …

The present paper proposes a common representation model that allows the free exchange
of knowledge between different story generation systems as a base for a collaborative …

We present a system to generate poems based on the information extracted from input text
such as blog posts. Our design uses the blackboard architecture, in which independent …

Conversational interfaces and chatbots have a long history, but have only recently been
hyped as a disruptive technology ready to replace mobile apps and Web sites. Many online …

We humans often compensate for our own weaknesses by partnering with those with
complementary strengths. So fiction is full of characters who complete each other, just as …