Vol 36, No. 3 - Nontopical issue

Automatist storyteller systems and the shifting sands of story

by G. Davenport and M. Murtaugh

Reprint Order No. G321-5652.

Cited references and notes

1. W. E. Mackay and G. Davenport, "Virtual Video Editing in Interactive Multimedia Applications," Communications of the ACM 32, No. 7, 802-810 (July 1989).
2. G. Davenport, R. Evans, and M. Halliday, "Orchestrating Digital Micromovies," Leonardo 26, No. 4, 283-288 (1993).
3. M. L. Murtaugh, The Automatist Storytelling System: Putting the Editor's Knowledge in Software, Master of Science in media technology thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (September 1996).
4. P. Maes, "Situated Agents Can Have Goals," Designing Autonomous Agents: Theory and Practice from Biology to Engineering and Back, P. Maes, Editor, North-Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam (1990), pp. 49-70.
5. I. Lokuge and S. Ishizaki, "GeoSpace: An Interactive Visualization System for Exploring Complex Information Spaces," ACM SIGCHI '95 Proceedings, Denver, CO (1995).
6. M. L. Murtaugh, The Automatist Storytelling System: Putting the Editor's Knowledge in Software, Master of Science in media technology thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (September 1996), Chapters 3 and 4.
7. A good introduction and overview of progress toward hypertext is presented in: G. P. Landow, The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD (1992).
8. J. H. Murray, Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (1997, in press).
9. P. Maes, "Guest Editorial," Designing Autonomous Agents: Theory and Practice from Biology to Engineering and Back, P. Maes, Editor, North-Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam (1990), p. 1.
10. P. Maes, "Artificial Life Meets Entertainment: Lifelike Autonomous Agents," Communications of the ACM 38, No. 11 (November 1995).
11. P. Maes and B. Rhodes, "The Stage as a Character: Automatic Creation of Acts of God for Dramatic Effect," presented at the AAAI '95 Spring Symposium on Interactive Story Systems: Plot and Character.
12. "Boston: Renewed Vistas" is an evolving documentary about the multi-billion-dollar public works project in Boston. Our focus on the "Big Dig" will continue until the project is complete, which may be in 2004. Materials in the project have been developed by students in "Workshop in Elastic Movie Time." The project is conceived and directed by Glorianna Davenport.
13. H. N. Gitelman, Jerome B. Wiesner, A Random Walk Through the Twentieth Century: Formative Evaluation (December 1996). Unpublished paper for Dr. Arthur Johnson's course in Formative Evaluation (T-536) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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