This paper presents arguments for the creation of an academic discipline concerned with the
analysis and design of interactive digital narratives, akin to game studies. I analyse the …

Research on the emerging form of interactive digital narrative (IDN) concerns both theory
and practice. The approach discussed here combines a theoretical framework introduced …

Narrative has always played an important role in knowledge transfer between human
beings. The Advanced Stories Authoring and Presentation System (ASAPS) was developed …

In more than two decades of research and practical experiments in interactive digital
narrative (IDN), much insight about the relationship of narrative and digital media has been …

Commonly, military training games and simulations depend on participants engaging in the
immersive environment and then stopping to glean the meaning of their behaviors through …

This work described in this dissertation is an attempt to integrate intelligent tutoring
capabilities into a framework that can be applied within any exploratory learning game. The …

This dissertation describes work to develop a planning-based computational model of
narrative generation designed to elicit surprise in the mind of a reader. To this end, my …

As the interactive narrative community continues to mature, discussions are beginning in
which we debate the relative merits of differing methodologies, discuss priorities around …

The authoring of interactive, generative narrative is a task that typically requires an extensive
multi-disciplinary background in computational and narrative theory. With the increased …

Many researchers in the field of Interactive Digital Narrative (IDN) have created specialized
authoring tools, including Storyspace [1], Agent Stories [2], Art-E-Fact [3], the authoring part …