Narrative Intelligence

1. Chapter 1. Narrative Intelligence (by Mateas, Michael); 2. Chapter 2. A brief overview of the Narrative Intelligence Reading Group (by Davis, Marc); 3. Part I: Human Narrative; 4. Chapter 3. The narrative construction of reality (by Bruner, Jerome S.); 5. Chapter 4. Stories of lemurs and robots: The social origin of story-telling (by Dautenhahn, Kerstin); 6. Chapter 5. Vital narratives (by Laurel, Brenda); 7. Chapter 6. We are what we tell: Designing narrative environments for children (by Bers, Marina Umaschi); 8. Part II: Story Generation; 9. Chapter 7. The Dr. K- Project (by Rickman, Brandon); 10. Chapter 8. The Rise and Fall of Black Velvet Flag: An 'intelligent' system for youth culture documentary (by Schiffer, Sheldon); 11. Chapter 9. The recombinant history apparatus presents Terminal Time (by Domike, Steffi); 12. Chapter 10. Experiments with the theatrical Greek chorus as a model for interactions with computational narrative systems (by Strohecker, Carol); 13. Chapter 11. Assumptions underlying the Erasmatron storytelling system (by Crawford, Chris); 14. Chapter 12. Story grammars: Return of a theory (by Lang, R. Raymond); 15. Part III: Agents and Narrative; 16. Chapter 13. Virtual Babyz: Believable agents with narrative intelligence (by Stern, Andrew); 17. Chapter 14. Web guide agents: Narrative context with character (by Isbister, Katherine); 18. Chapter 15. Agneta & Frida: Merging web and narrative? (by Persson, Per); 19. Chapter 16. Schizophrenia and narrative in artificial agents (by Sengers, Phoebe); 20. Part IV: Analyzing the Stories We Tell; 21. Chapter 17. Writing and representation (by Agre, Philip E.); 22. Chapter 18. Stories and social networks (by Sack, Warren); 23. Author index; 24. Subject index