Non-cognitive skills are crucial for personal and social life well-being, and such skill
development can be supported by narrative-based (eg, storytelling) technologies. While …

Modeling socially interactive agents (SIAs) has become critical in an increasingly wide
range of applications, from large-scale social simulations to the design of embodied virtual …

AI Advancements have augmented casual writing and story generation, but their usage
poses challenges in collaborative storytelling. In role-playing games such as Dungeons & …

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 …

The development of new approaches for creating more “life-like” artificial intelligence (AI)
capable of natural social interaction is of interest to a number of scientific fields, from virtual …

Social simulation has been a popular domain in computational creativity for decades.
However, while it has been used in applications that are easily digestible by end users (eg …

The development of new approaches for creating more “life-like” artificial intelligence (AI)
capable of natural social interaction is of interest to a number of scientific fields, from virtual …

We address the integration of storytelling and Large Language Models (LLMs) to develop
engaging and believable Social Chatbots (SCs) in community settings. Motivated by the …

Reality Tales is a platform to facilitate interaction with fictional story characters for readers
(13-20 years). The platform leverages binaural audio and multi-voice narration for an …

We present a demonstration of Play What I Mean (PWIM): a novel, AI-supported interaction
technique for interactive emergent narrative (IEN) games and play experiences. By assisting …