Interactive Storytelling Research Research Articles

Interactive storytelling for children: a survey

This paper provides a review of past and present research in interactive storytelling in relationship to children. It investigates the field of Interactive Storytelling for Children (ISC) along multiple perspectives, considering theoretical approaches, design methodologies, and technological solutions that regard children as interactive story authors. It highlights how ISC draws significantly on principles, methods, terminology, systems, of two more consolidated disciplines, Interactive Digital Storytelling (IDS), and Interaction Design for Children (IDC). Finally, the paper attempts to identify the peculiarity of ISC as an autonomous discipline and pinpoints some research challenges of this domain.

Planning algorithms for interactive storytelling

Interactive storytelling (IS) is an important research topic in the broader area of interactive digital entertainment. Research in IS focuses in the search for techniques that allow the creation of systems that can generate stories that change as a consequence of a player's actions. There have been numerous articles attempting to reach this goal by employing a planning algorithm as part of the solution, but they typically do not discuss in detail why a given planning algorithm was used. Given this reality, this article makes two main contributions. First, it proposes an initial set of criteria that can be used to evaluate how well a given planning algorithm fits IS systems. Second, on the basis of these criteria, it presents an analysis using available planning systems.