Supporting human creative story authoring with asynthetic audience

Abstract

Human creativity plays an important role in the production of many of the media products that permeate our society. However, non-expert creators are often limited by a lack of technical ability, as opposed to creative ability. This is especially true for story authoring. We present an approach to supporting creativity using synthetic audience - an intelligent agent that acts as (a) a surrogate story recipient and (b) critic capable of providing constructive feedback. We describe initial efforts based on computational modeling of cognitive processes and creativity.