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Interactive Chart of Story Characters’ Intentions

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Interactive Storytelling (ICIDS 2016)

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This paper presents a visualization of stories that aligns the hierarchy of story units and the hierarchy of characters’ intentions, respectively, with the story text, subdivided into chunks. The solution takes inspiration from the design introduced by the movie narrative charts, and presents an interactive tool.

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    http://visual.ly/memento-scene-timeline.

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    http://visual.ly/inception-timeline-visualisation.

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    http://store.xkcd.com/collections/posters/products/movie-narrative-charts-poster.

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    http://processing.org/.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and CIRMA, University of Torino, Turin, Italy

    Vincenzo Lombardo, Rossana Damiano & Carmi Terzulli

  2. Department of Humanities and CIRMA, University of Torino, Turin, Italy

    Antonio Pizzo & Giacomo Albert

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  1. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  2. The Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Andrew S. Gordon

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Lombardo, V., Pizzo, A., Damiano, R., Terzulli, C., Albert, G. (2016). Interactive Chart of Story Characters’ Intentions. In: Nack, F., Gordon, A. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10045. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48279-8_39

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