An Adaptive Hypermedia Christmas
As I mentioned in previous posts much of my time at the moment is spent reading around my field, to give me a good grounding in Narrative and ascociated fields. This post is really an update with my progress with regards to that.
I began my review in October by reading up on Narratology and Narrative Analysis and then moved on to more practical papers in Narrative Generation. I looked into several different narrative generation techniques all with different scopes of what could be defined as narrative. This ranged from work done at CWI which sought to use narrative techniques of presentation to create more meaningful search results to entertainment narratives such as Facade and the Automatic storyteller. The later investigated the rules of what creates the most entertaining story to generate an entertaining Narrative either as a story or in the case of facade adapt a a story as it goes based on interactions.
This xmas to continue the spread of reading around my field I attempted to gain an insight into adaptive hypermedia, reading important papers in the field such as HyperCafe and papers on several adaptive hypertext projects that could be useful to my research on generating narrative, particularly AHA! and InterBook.
While I expect my literature review to continue I am now begining to think about applications of what I have learnt, and to tackle a small problem that will work towards the greater problem of narrative generation. Throughout my Narratology study I came accross the idea that an important aspect of analysing narrative lies with the author, whether the author is personified in the text or not every story has an implied author - a voice through which the story is told. Thus to accurately generate a narrative from a computer we must consider or model this author from which the story comes.
An important aspect of this implied author is its human affect on the story. This could be a bias, or how the story is structured or told and this is the area I am currently investigating with a look to devloping a small experiment or application.
I began my review in October by reading up on Narratology and Narrative Analysis and then moved on to more practical papers in Narrative Generation. I looked into several different narrative generation techniques all with different scopes of what could be defined as narrative. This ranged from work done at CWI which sought to use narrative techniques of presentation to create more meaningful search results to entertainment narratives such as Facade and the Automatic storyteller. The later investigated the rules of what creates the most entertaining story to generate an entertaining Narrative either as a story or in the case of facade adapt a a story as it goes based on interactions.
This xmas to continue the spread of reading around my field I attempted to gain an insight into adaptive hypermedia, reading important papers in the field such as HyperCafe and papers on several adaptive hypertext projects that could be useful to my research on generating narrative, particularly AHA! and InterBook.
While I expect my literature review to continue I am now begining to think about applications of what I have learnt, and to tackle a small problem that will work towards the greater problem of narrative generation. Throughout my Narratology study I came accross the idea that an important aspect of analysing narrative lies with the author, whether the author is personified in the text or not every story has an implied author - a voice through which the story is told. Thus to accurately generate a narrative from a computer we must consider or model this author from which the story comes.
An important aspect of this implied author is its human affect on the story. This could be a bias, or how the story is structured or told and this is the area I am currently investigating with a look to devloping a small experiment or application.
Labels: adaptive hypertext, hypermedia, implied author, literature review, narrative, narrative analysis, narrative generation, narratology
posted by Charlie Hargood at
16:09
0 Comments
