Designer/Programmer
Glorianna Davenport
Dexter is a continuity engine which sits atop a database of story
content. It provides a mechanism for associative navigation through
the database, recommending the "best" material to see next, based on topics previously chosen by the audience. Dexter works on a "spreading activation network" concept, which assigns more energy to clips with more epistemic punch.
Several students have used the Dexter engine as a front-end for their
own interactive documentary projects, including:
Other projects have adapted the Dexter engine for other purposes, including:
Research Supervisor
Jerome B. Wiesner: A Random Walk through the 20th Century.
I-Views
Davenport G; Murtaugh M (1997).
Automatist storyteller systems and the shifting sands of story
IBM Systems Journal, vol.36, no.3, 1997, pp.446-56. Publisher: IBM, USA.
National Information Infrastructure Awards (1996).
Davenport G; Murtaugh M (1995).
ConText: Towards the Evolving Documentary
ACM Multimedia '95, November 1995.
Beecham F (1995).
Movies of the Future: Storytelling with Computers
American Cinematographer, April, cover, pp 4-12.