Prototyping a Narrative Structure Interface as a Basis for Human-Computer Co-creation of Narratives
Taisuke Akimoto · International Journal of Knowledge Engineering · 2016
This paper describes a human interface, called a narrative structure (NS) interface, for the co-creation of narratives between generative computer programs and humans.This study forms part of work-in-progress research on a co-creative narrative generation system.This system produces diverse narratives through continual narrative-generating chain reactions involving various agents, including narrative generation programs and human narrative creators.Generally, computational narrative generation deals with the structural representation of a narrative, rather than the surface expression as with a natural language.The main role of the proposed interface is to connect a human narrative creation to the internal narrative structure level.In particular, this interface provides a visual diagram of a narrative structure and methods of editing the visualized narrative structure.In this paper, we present a prototyping version of the NS interface and discuss the achievements and future research directions thereof.