Say Anything: A Massively Collaborative Open Domain Story Writing Companion

  • Authors:
  • Reid Swanson;Andrew S. Gordon

  • Affiliations:
  • The Institute for Creative Technologies, The University of Southern California, Marina Del Rey, USA 90292;The Institute for Creative Technologies, The University of Southern California, Marina Del Rey, USA 90292

  • Venue:
  • ICIDS '08 Proceedings of the 1st Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling: Interactive Storytelling
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Interactive storytelling is an interesting cross-disciplinary area that has importance in research as well as entertainment. In this paper we explore a new area of interactive storytelling that blurs the line between traditional interactive fiction and collaborative writing. We present a system where the user and computer take turns in writing sentences of a fictional narrative. Sentences contributed by the computer are selected from a collection of millions of stories extracted from Internet weblogs. By leveraging the large amounts of personal narrative content available on the web, we show that even with a simple approach our system can produce compelling stories with our users.