Interactive Storytelling: First Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2008 Erfurt, Germany, November 26-29, 2008 Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
Embracing the Combinatorial Explosion: A Brief Prescription for Interactive Story R&D....Pages 1-5
Interactive Narrative, Plot Types, and Interpersonal Relations....Pages 6-13
The IRIS Network of Excellence: Integrating Research in Interactive Storytelling....Pages 14-19
Mobile Urban Drama – Setting the Stage with Location Based Technologies....Pages 20-31
Say Anything: A Massively Collaborative Open Domain Story Writing Companion....Pages 32-40
Locating Drama: A Demonstration of Location-Aware Audio Drama....Pages 41-43
Lies and Seductions....Pages 44-47
Animation-Based Interactive Storytelling System....Pages 48-50
Dear Esther: An Interactive Ghost Story Built Using the Source Engine....Pages 51-54
Walking the Edit – A Research Project of the Master Cinema Network in Switzerland....Pages 55-58
3D Immersion in Virtual Agents Education....Pages 59-70
Exploring Non-verbal Behavior Models for Believable Characters....Pages 71-82
Revisiting Character-Based Affective Storytelling under a Narrative BDI Framework....Pages 83-88
 VirtualActor : Endowing Virtual Characters with a Repertoire for Acting....Pages 89-91
Steps towards a Generic Interface between Interactive Storytelling Applications and Character Animation Engines....Pages 92-95
Looking at the Interactive Narrative Experience through the Eyes of the Participants....Pages 96-107
Play and Narration as Patterns of Meaning Construction: Theoretical Foundation and Empirical Evaluation of the User Experience of Interactive Films....Pages 108-113
Trying to Get Trapped in the Past – Exploring the Illusion of Presence in Virtual Drama....Pages 114-125
The Functions of Music in Interactive Media....Pages 126-131
Adaptive Musical Expression from Automatic Realtime Orchestration and Performance....Pages 132-143
Narrative Generation for Suspense: Modeling and Evaluation....Pages 144-155
A Use of Flashback and Foreshadowing for Surprise Arousal in Narrative Using a Plan-Based Approach....Pages 156-167
Story Planning with Vignettes: Toward Overcoming the Content Production Bottleneck....Pages 168-179
Schemas in Directed Emergent Drama....Pages 180-185
Developing a Drama Management Architecture for Interactive Fiction Games....Pages 186-197
Planning and Interaction Levels for TV Storytelling....Pages 198-209
Exploiting Structure and Conventions of Movie Scripts for Information Retrieval and Text Mining....Pages 210-213
Generation of Dilemma-Based Narratives: Method and Turing Test Evaluation....Pages 214-217
Emergent Stories Facilitated....Pages 218-229
Making Stories Player-Specific: Delayed Authoring in Interactive Storytelling....Pages 230-241
Verbal Communication of Story Facilitators in Multi-player Role-Playing Games....Pages 242-249
Improvisation and Performance as Models for Interacting with Stories....Pages 250-263
Let’s Pretend I Had a Sword....Pages 264-267
On the Use of Computational Models of Influence for Managing Interactive Virtual Experiences....Pages 268-272
Purposeful Authoring for Emergent Narrative....Pages 273-284
From Debugging to Authoring: Adapting Productivity Tools to Narrative Content Description....Pages 285-296
PRISM: A Framework for Authoring Interactive Narratives....Pages 297-308
Tales for the Many: Process and Authorial Control in Multi-player Role-Playing Games....Pages 309-320
An Intelligent Plot-Centric Interface for Mastering Computer Role-Playing Games....Pages 321-324
StoryTec: A Digital Storytelling Platform for the Authoring and Experiencing of Interactive and Non-linear Stories....Pages 325-328
Workshop: Impro Theatre....Pages 329-329
Workshop: Pen-and-Paper Role-Playing....Pages 330-330
Workshop and Panel: The Authoring Process in Interactive Storytelling....Pages 331-331
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