Adaptive Storytelling Through User Understanding

@article{GarberBarron2013AdaptiveST,
  title={Adaptive Storytelling Through User Understanding},
  author={Michael Garber-Barron and Mei Si},
  journal={Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment},
  year={2013}
}
  • Michael Garber-BarronMei Si
  • Published 14 October 2013
  • Computer Science
  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment
Storytelling, when happening face to face, is a highly interactive process. A good storyteller attracts the audience by continuously observing their responses and adjusting the storytelling accordingly. The goal of this project is to simulate this process in digital storytellers. We created an automatic storytelling system that periodically estimates the user’s preferences and adapts the content in the subsequent storytelling by balancing novelty and topic consistency. We have performed an… 
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