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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

Generative AI significantly enhances player agency in interactive narratives (IN) by enabling just-in-time content generation that adapts to player actions. While delegating generation to AI makes IN more interactive, it becomes challenging…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Zhuoran Lu , Qian Zhou , Yi Wang

This study presents a theory-inspired visual narrative generative system that integrates conceptual principles-comic authoring idioms-with generative and language models to enhance the comic creation process. Our system combines human…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Yi-Chun Chen , Arnav Jhala

Human communication is often executed in the form of a narrative, an account of connected events composed of characters, actions, and settings. A coherent narrative structure is therefore a requisite for a well-formulated narrative -- be it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Semi Min , Juyong Park

Storytelling plays a central role in human socializing and entertainment. However, much of the research on automatic storytelling generation assumes that stories will be generated by an agent without any human interaction. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Eric Nichols , Leo Gao , Randy Gomez

This paper presents the Designer Preference Model, a data-driven solution that pursues to learn from user generated data in a Quality-Diversity Mixed-Initiative Co-Creativity (QD MI-CC) tool, with the aims of modelling the user's design…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Alberto Alvarez , Jose Font

Storytelling is an open-ended task that entails creative thinking and requires a constant flow of ideas. Natural language generation (NLG) for storytelling is especially challenging because it requires the generated text to follow an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Eden Bensaid , Mauro Martino , Benjamin Hoover , Hendrik Strobelt

Storytelling is an integral part of human culture and significantly impacts cognitive and socio-emotional development and connection. Despite the importance of interactive visual storytelling, the process of creating such content requires…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Victor Nikhil Antony , Chien-Ming Huang

When exploring data, analysts construct narratives about what the data means by asking questions, generating visualizations, reflecting on patterns, and revising their interpretations as new insights emerge. Yet existing analysis tools…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Oliver Huang , Muhammad Fatir , Steven Luo , Sangho Suh , Hariharan Subramonyam , Carolina Nobre

Data-driven stories seek to inform and persuade audiences through the use of data visualisations and engaging narratives. These stories have now been highly optimised to be viewed on desktop and mobile computers. In contrast, while…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Xiaoyan Zhou , Yalong Yang , Francisco Ortega , Anil Ufuk Batmaz , Benjamin Lee

Story composition is a challenging problem for machines and even for humans. We present a neural narrative generation system that interacts with humans to generate stories. Our system has different levels of human interaction, which enables…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant , Haining Feng , Nanyun Peng

Recent neural generation systems have demonstrated the potential for procedurally generating game content, images, stories, and more. However, most neural generation algorithms are "uncontrolled" in the sense that the user has little say in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Zhiyu Lin , Rohan Agarwal , Mark Riedl

The emotional arc is a universal narrative structure underlying stories across cultures and media -- an idea central to structuralist narratology, often encapsulated in the phrase "all stories are one story." We present a framework for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yunge Wen , Chenliang Huang , Hangyu Zhou , Zhuo Zeng , Chun Ming Louis Po , Julian Togelius , Timothy Merino , Sam Earle

Interactive narrative (IN) authors craft spaces of divergent narrative possibilities for players to explore, with the player's input determining which narrative possibilities they actually experience. Generative AI can enable new forms of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Yi Wang , John Joon Young Chung , Melissa Roemmele , Yuqian Sun , Tiffany Wang , Shm Garanganao Almeda , Brett A. Halperin , Yuwen Lu , Max Kreminski

While LLMs demonstrate remarkable fluency in narrative generation, existing methods struggle to maintain global narrative coherence, contextual logical consistency, and smooth character development, often producing monotonous scripts with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Hanwen Gu , Chao Guo , Junle Wang , Wenda Xie , Yisheng Lv

We present a literature survey on non-interactive computational story generation. The article starts with the presentation of requirements for creative systems, three types of models of creativity (computational, socio-cultural, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Luis Miguel Botelho

Media narratives wield tremendous power in shaping public opinion, yet computational approaches struggle to capture the nuanced storytelling structures that communication theory emphasizes as central to how meaning is constructed. Existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Rohan Das , Advait Deshmukh , Alexandria Leto , Zohar Naaman , I-Ta Lee , Maria Leonor Pacheco

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…

In recent years, there has been a growing application of mixed-initiative co-creative approaches in the creation of video games. The rapid advances in the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) systems further propel creative…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Solange Margarido , Licínio Roque , Penousal Machado , Pedro Martins

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