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Narrative visualization transforms data into engaging stories, making complex information accessible to a broad audience. Foundation models, with their advanced capabilities such as natural language processing, content generation, and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Yi He , Ke Xu , Shixiong Cao , Yang Shi , Qing Chen , Nan Cao

The acquisition of complex knowledge and competences raises difficult challenges for the supporting tools within the corporate environment, which digital storytelling presents a potential solution. Traditionally, a driving goal of digital…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Edgar Santos , Claudia Ribeiro , Manuel Fradinho , João Pereira

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled social simulation through multi-agent systems. Prior efforts focus on agent societies created from scratch, assigning agents with newly defined personas. However, simulating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Yiting Ran , Xintao Wang , Tian Qiu , Jiaqing Liang , Yanghua Xiao , Deqing Yang

We designed and built a game called \textit{Immersive Text Game}, which allows the player to choose a story and a character, and interact with other characters in the story in an immersive manner of dialogues. The game is based on several…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Wanshui Li , Yifan Bai , Jiaxuan Lu , Kexin Yi

Emergent narratives provide a unique and compelling approach to interactive storytelling through simulation, and have applications in games, narrative generation, and virtual agents. However the inherent complexity of simulation makes…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Ben Kybartas , Clark Verbrugge , Jonathan Lessard

In this paper, we present Drama Llama, an LLM-powered storylets framework that supports the authoring of responsive, open-ended interactive stories. DL combines the structural benefits of storylet-based systems with the generative…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Yuqian Sun , Phoebe J. Wang , John Joon Young Chung , Melissa Roemmele , Taewook Kim , Max Kreminski

Animated virtual reality (VR) stories, combining the presence of VR and the artistry of computer animation, offer a compelling way to deliver messages and evoke emotions. Motivated by the growing demand for immersive narrative experiences,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Lin-Ping Yuan , Feilin Han , Liwenhan Xie , Junjie Zhang , Jian Zhao , Huamin Qu

Digital storytelling, essential in entertainment, education, and marketing, faces challenges in production scalability and flexibility. The StoryAgent framework, introduced in this paper, utilizes Large Language Models and generative tools…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Samuel S. Sohn , Danrui Li , Sen Zhang , Che-Jui Chang , Mubbasir Kapadia

In the context of the exponentially increasing volume of narrative texts such as novels and news, readers struggle to extract and consistently remember storyline from these intricate texts due to the constraints of human working memory and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Li Ye , Lei Wang , Shaolun Ruan , Yuwei Meng , Yigang Wang , Wei Chen , Zhiguang Zhou

We present a system to convert any set of images (e.g., a video clip or a photo album) into a storyboard. We aim to create multiple pleasing graphic representations of the content at interactive rates, so the user can explore and find the…

Interactive storytelling benefits from planning and exploring multiple 'what if' scenarios. Modern LLMs are useful tools for ideation and exploration, but current chat-based user interfaces restrict users to a single linear flow. To address…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Parsa Ghaffari , Chris Hokamp

While the daily user of digital, Internet-enabled devices has some explicit control over what they read and see, the providers fulfilling searches, offering options, and presenting material are using increasingly sophisticated real-time…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Jeff Burke , Jared J. Stein

In this work, a new and innovative way of spatial computing that appeared recently in the bibliography called True Augmented Reality (AR), is employed in cultural heritage preservation. This innovation could be adapted by the Virtual…

Image description task has been invariably examined in a static manner with qualitative presumptions held to be universally applicable, regardless of the scope or target of the description. In practice, however, different viewers may pay…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Andrew Shin , Yoshitaka Ushiku , Tatsuya Harada

A hallmark of human intelligence is the ability to understand and communicate with language. Interactive Fiction games are fully text-based simulation environments where a player issues text commands to effect change in the environment and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Matthew Hausknecht , Prithviraj Ammanabrolu , Marc-Alexandre Côté , Xingdi Yuan

A storyboard is a sequence of images to illustrate a story containing multiple sentences, which has been a key process to create different story products. In this paper, we tackle a new multimedia task of automatic storyboard creation to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Shizhe Chen , Bei Liu , Jianlong Fu , Ruihua Song , Qin Jin , Pingping Lin , Xiaoyu Qi , Chunting Wang , Jin Zhou

In this paper, we propose the beginnings of a formal framework for modeling narrative \textit{qua} narrative. Our framework affords the ability to discuss key qualities of stories and their communication, including the flow of information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Louis Castricato , Stella Biderman , Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera , David Thue

Creating engaging narratives from visual data is crucial for automated digital media consumption, assistive technologies, and interactive entertainment. This survey covers methodologies used in the generation of these narratives, focusing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Daniel A. P. Oliveira , Eugénio Ribeiro , David Martins de Matos

Storyline visualizations are an effective means to present the evolution of plots and reveal the scenic interactions among characters. However, the design of storyline visualizations is a difficult task as users need to balance between…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Tan Tang , Renzhong Li , Xinke Wu , Shuhan Liu , Johannes Knittel , Steffen Koch , Thomas Ertl , Lingyun Yu , Peiran Ren , Yingcai Wu

Multimodal interaction has been increasingly considered in designing visualization authoring tools. However, multimodal interaction has a broad meaning in visualization authoring, according to our literature review. Although some previous…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Astrid van den Brandt , Sehi L'Yi , Huyen N. Nguyen , Anna Vilanova , Nils Gehlenborg