Ulrike Spierling, "Interactive Digital Storytelling: Towards a Hybrid Approach"

(In Worlds in Play)

- Approaches to interactive storytelling from film production, HCI, game design, AI
- Virtual autonomous characters vs interactive stories
- Accessibility of authoring tools to actual authors
- Author must take responsibility for outcome/effect of interactive narrative (anticipate?)
- Author must maintain control over autonomous agents?
- "Humans are the storytellers, not 'the computer.'"
- Incomprehensible diagrams
- "Having a conversation" with a computer-based artifact ("agent-based conversation")
- Where exactly is the hybrid approach promised in the title?