Interactive Storytelling Engines
by Dr. Teong Joo Mike ONG
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30 November 2006 (Thursday)
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Dr. Teong Joo Mike ONG Ph.D. in Computer Science Department of Computer Science Texas A&M University, College Station |
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Abstract
Stories are used to convey information, cultural values, and experiences. New technologies have constantly provided increasingly sophisticated means to tell stories and the recent trend is the convergence of technology, entertainment, and art in the computer.
In this talk, Dr. ONG will describe the design of an interactive storytelling engine that uses genetic algorithms at its core to recombine and evaluate story components generated from a set of story templates. The system performs recombination, mutation and selection operations to generate logically congruent variants of the original story via traversal, generation and deletion of (links in) the story elements to improve re-readability. Some of the immediate areas of application for such a system are dynamic or hypertextual narrations, generation of information trails for digital repositories or collections and educational software.
Biography
Dr. Teong Joo Mike ONG received his B.S. degree from University of Oregon and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Texas A&M University at College Station. While pursuing his M.S and Ph.D., Dr. ONG was involved in various interdisciplinary research projects - Digital Flora of Texas, Humanities Informatics and OAI-PMH compliant Visual Knowledge Builder (VKB). Dr. ONG's current areas of research include evolutionary algorithms, digital libraries, interactive storytelling, information visualization and management, and terrain generation.