Abstract—This paper describes a human interface, called a
narrative structure (NS) interface, for the co-creation of
narratives between generative computer programs and humans.
This study forms part of work-in-progress research on a
co-creative narrative generation system. This system produces
diverse narratives through continual narrative-generating chain
reactions involving various agents, including narrative
generation programs and human narrative creators. Generally,
computational narrative generation deals with the structural
representation of a narrative, rather than the surface expression
as with a natural language. The main role of the proposed
interface is to connect a human narrative creation to the internal
narrative structure level. In particular, this interface provides a
visual diagram of a narrative structure and methods of editing
the visualized narrative structure. In this paper, we present a
prototyping version of the NS interface and discuss the
achievements and future research directions thereof.
Index Terms—Artificial intelligence, co-creative narrative
generation system, human interface, knowledge creation,
narrative as knowledge, narrative structure.
T. Akimoto is with the Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering,
the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan (e-mail:
t8akimo@yahoo.co.jp).
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Cite: Taisuke Akimoto, "Prototyping a Narrative Structure Interface as a Basis for Human-Computer Co-creation of Narratives," International Journal of Knowledge Engineering vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 158-164, 2016.
