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Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling

ICIDS 2009: Interactive Storytelling pp 62–73Cite as

Iterative Authoring Using Story Generation Feedback: Debugging or Co-creation?

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We explore the role that story generation feedback may play within the creative process of interactive story authoring. While such feedback is often used as ‘debugging’ information, we explore here a ‘co-creation’ view, in which the outcome of the story generator influences authorial intent. We illustrate an iterative authoring approach in which each iteration consists of idea generation, implementation and simulation. We find that the tension between authorial intent and the partially uncontrollable story generation outcome may be relieved by taking such a co-creation approach.

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  1. Human Media Interaction group, Twente University,  

    Ivo Swartjes & Mariët Theune

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  1. DSI - Departamento de Sistemas de Informacao, Universidade do Minho, Campus de Azurém, 4800-058, Guimaraes, Portugal

    Ido A. Iurgel

  2. Departamento de Ciencias da Comunicacao, Universidade do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4810-057, Braga, Portugal

    Nelson Zagalo

  3. Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Freyung 6/6, A-1010, Vienna, Austria

    Paolo Petta

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Swartjes, I., Theune, M. (2009). Iterative Authoring Using Story Generation Feedback: Debugging or Co-creation?. In: Iurgel, I.A., Zagalo, N., Petta, P. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5915. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10643-9_10

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