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This work investigates whether knowledge-driven large language model (LLM)-based storytelling can support purposeful narrative interaction with a digital companion for older adults. To address known limitations of LLMs, including…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jayalakshmi Baskar , Vera C. Kaelin , Kaan Kilic , Helena Lindgren

When language models answer open-ended problems, they implicitly make hidden decisions that shape their outputs, leaving users with uncontextualized answers rather than a working map of the problem; drawing on multiverse analysis from…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Andre Ye , Jenny Y. Huang , Alicia Guo , Rose Novick , Tamara Broderick , Mitchell L. Gordon

In this paper, we introduce NarrativePlay, a novel system that allows users to role-play a fictional character and interact with other characters in narratives such as novels in an immersive environment. We leverage Large Language Models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Runcong Zhao , Wenjia Zhang , Jiazheng Li , Lixing Zhu , Yanran Li , Yulan He , Lin Gui

The major objective of this work is to study and report the existing ontology-driven models for narrative information. The paper aims to analyze these models across various domains. The goal of this work is to bring the relevant literature,…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Udaya Varadarajan , Biswanath Dutta

Framing -- how designers define and reinterpret problems, shape narratives, and guide audience understanding -- is central to design practice. Yet in visualization research, framing has been examined mostly through its rhetorical and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Prakash Shukla , Paul Parsons

Narrative inquiry has been one of the prominent application domains for the analysis of human experience, aiming to know more about the complexity of human society. However, researchers are often required to transform various forms of data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Runtong Wu , Jiayao Song , Fei Teng , Xianhao Ren , Yuyan Gao , Kailun Yang

This vision paper lays the preliminary foundations for Data Narrative Management Systems (DNMS), systems that enable the storage, sharing, and manipulation of data narratives. We motivate the need for such formal foundations and introduce a…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Patrick Marcel , Veronika Peralta , Faten El Outa , Panos Vassiliadis

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

Design processes involve exploration, iteration, and movement across interconnected stages such as persona creation, problem framing, solution ideation, and prototyping. However, time and resource constraints often hinder designers from…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Sangho Suh , Michael Lai , Kevin Pu , Steven P. Dow , Tovi Grossman

Creative coding requires continuous translation between evolving concepts and computational artifacts, making reflection essential yet difficult to sustain. Creators often struggle to manage ambiguous intentions, emergent outputs, and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Anqi Wang , Zhengyi Li , Lan Luo , Xin Tong , Pan Hui

Concept-based interpretability for Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) aims to align internal model representations with high-level semantic concepts, but existing approaches largely overlook the semantic roles of individual filters and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Xinyu Mu , Hui Dou , Furao Shen , Jian Zhao

Narrative is a ubiquitous component of human communication. Understanding its structure plays a critical role in a wide variety of applications, ranging from simple comparative analyses to enhanced narrative retrieval, comprehension, or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Prashanth Vijayaraghavan , Deb Roy

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved impressive progress in vision-language reasoning, yet their ability to understand temporally unfolding narratives in videos remains underexplored. True narrative understanding requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Hyeonjeong Ha , Jinjin Ge , Bo Feng , Kaixin Ma , Gargi Chakraborty

Narratives are fundamental to our understanding of the world, providing us with a natural structure for knowledge representation over time. Computational narrative extraction is a subfield of artificial intelligence that makes heavy use of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Brian Keith Norambuena , Tanushree Mitra , Chris North

Narrative frames are a powerful way of conceptualizing and communicating complex, controversial ideas, however automated frame analysis to date has mostly overlooked this framing device. In this paper, we connect elements of narrativity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yulia Otmakhova , Lea Frermann

Search engines are considered the primary tool to assist and empower learners in finding information relevant to their learning goals-be it learning something new, improving their existing skills, or just fulfilling a curiosity. While…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Arthur Câmara , Nirmal Roy , David Maxwell , Claudia Hauff

Storytelling and narrative are fundamental to human experience, intertwined with our social and cultural engagement. As such, researchers have long attempted to create systems that can generate stories automatically. In recent years,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Yuxin Wang , Jieru Lin , Zhiwei Yu , Wei Hu , Börje F. Karlsson

Conversational interfaces are likely to become more efficient, intuitive and engaging way for human-computer interaction than today's text or touch-based interfaces. Current research efforts concerning conversational interfaces focus…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Svitlana Vakulenko , Ilya Markov , Maarten de Rijke

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

The use of knowledge graphs for grounding agents in real-world Q&A applications has become increasingly common. Answering complex queries often requires multi-hop reasoning and the ability to navigate vast relational structures. Standard…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Taraneh Ghandi , Hamidreza Mahyar , Shachar Klaiman