Narrative Intelligence (NI) - the confluence of narrative, Artificial Intelligence, and media studies - studies, models, and supports the human use of narrative to understand the world. This volume brings together established work and founding documents in Narrative Intelligence to form a common reference point for NI researchers, providing perspectives from computational linguistics, agent research, psychology, ethology, art, and media theory. It describes artificial agents with narratively structured behavior, agents that take part in stories and tours, systems that automatically generate stories, dramas, and documentaries, and systems that support people telling their own stories. It looks at how people use stories, the features of narrative that play a role in how people understand the world, and how human narrative ability may have evolved. It addresses meta-issues in NI: the history of the field, the stories AI researchers tell about their research, and the effects those stories have on the things they discover. (Series B)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Narrative Intelligence Michael Mateas and Phoebe Sengers Chapter 2. A Brief Overview of the Narrative Intelligence Reading Group Marc Davis and Michael Travers Part I: Human Narrative Chapter 3. The Narrative Construction of Reality Jerome S. Bruner Chapter 4. Stories of Lemurs and Robots • The Social Origin of Story-Telling Kerstin Dautenhahn Chapter 5. Interactive Media for Kids: Ethics, Poetics, and Technology Brenda Laurel Chapter 6. We Are What We Tell: Designing Narrative Environments for Children Marina Umaschi Bers Part II: Story Generation Chapter 7. The Dr. K • Project Brandon Rickman Chapter 8. The Recline of Black Velvet Flag: An ‘Intelligent’ System for Youth Culture Documentary Sheldon Schiffer Chapter 9. The Recombinant History Apparatus Presents: Terminal Time Steffi Domike, Michael Mateas and Paul Vanouse Chapter 10. Experiments with the Theatrical Greek Chorus as a Model for Interactions with Computational Narrative Systems Carol Strohecker, Kevin M. Brooks and Larry Friedlander Chapter 11. Assumptions Underlying the Erasmatron Storytelling System Chris Crawford Chapter 12. Story Grammars: Return of a Theory R. Raymond Lang Part III: Agents and Narrative Chapter 13. Virtual Babyz: Believable Agents with Narrative Intelligence Andrew Stern Chapter 14. Web Guide Agents: Narrative Context with Character Katherine Isbister and Patrick Doyle Chapter 15. Agneta & Frida: Merging Web and Narrative? Per Persson, Kristina Höök and Marie Sjölinder Chapter 16. Schizophrenia and Narrative in Artificial Agents Phoebe Sengers Part IV: Analyzing the Stories we Tell Chapter 17. Writing and Representation Philip E. Agre Chapter 18. Stories and Social Networks Warren Sack