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Interview with the Robot: Question-Guided Collaboration in a Storytelling System

@inproceedings{Wicke2018InterviewWT,
  title={Interview with the Robot: Question-Guided Collaboration in a Storytelling System},
  author={Philipp Wicke and Tony Veale},
  booktitle={International Conference on Innovative Computing and Cloud Computing},
  year={2018}
}
An automated storytelling system that presents its stories as text on a screen is limited in its engagement with readers. [] Key Method Our robotic writer/presenter has two alternate modes of story-generation: a straight “telling” mode and an interview-oriented back-and-forth that extracts personal experiences from the user as raw material for new stories. We explore the practical issues of implementing both modes on a NAO humanoid robot that integrates gestural capabilities in an existing story-telling…
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