assimilate - collaborative narrative construction
Damian Hills
Creativity and Cognition Studio
University of Technology, Sydney
Sydney, Australia
Damian.Hills@uts.edu.au
Abstract
This demonstration presents the 'assimilate - collaborative
narrative construction' project, that aims for a holistic
system design with support for the creative possibilities
of collaborative narrative construction.
Introduction
This demonstration presents the 'assimilate - collaborative
narrative construction' project (Hills 2011) that aims for a
holistic system design with support for the creative possibilities
of collaborative narrative construction. By incorporating
interface mechanics with a flexible model of narrative
template representation, the system design emphasises
how mental models and intentions are understood by participants,
and represents its creative knowledge outcomes
based on these metaphorical and conversational exchanges.
Using a touch table interface participants collaboratively
narrate and visualise
narrative sequences
using online media
obtained through a
keyword search, or
by words obtained
from narrative templates.
The search
results are styled
into generative behaviours
that visually
self-organise while participants make aesthetic choices
about the narrative outcomes and their associated behaviours.
The playful interface supports collaboration through embedded
mechanics that
extend gestural actions
commonly performed
during casual conversations.
By embedding
metaphorical schemes
associated with narrative
comprehension, such as
pointing, exchanging,
enlarging or merging
views, gestural action
drives the experience
and supports the conversational
aspects
associated with narrative
exchange.
System Architecture
The system architecture models the narrative template
events to allow a particular narrative perspective, globally
or locally within the generated story world. This is done by
modeling conversation relationships with the aim of selforganising
and negotiating an
agreement surrounding several
themes. The system extends
Conversation Theory (CT)
(Pask, 1976), a theory of
learning and social interaction,
that outlines a formal method of
conversation as a sense-making
network. Based on CT
entailment meshes with an
added fitness metric, this
develops a negotiated
agreement surrounding several
interrelated themes, that leads
to eventual narrative coherence.
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References
Hills, D., ‘assimilate: An Interface for Collaborative Narrative
Construction’, ICIDS 2011, pp. 294-299.
Pask, G. Conversation theory: Applications in education
and epistemology. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1976.
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