Lectures:

• Lecture 00 - Course Information
• Lecture 01 - Introduction to Narratives and Interactive Storytelling
• Lecture 02 - Writing Interactive Narratives
• Lecture 03 - Narrative Dramatization
• Lecture 04 - Narrative Interaction

Program:

• Introduction to narratives and interactive storytelling;
• Linear and non-linear narratives;
• Narrative structures (Three-act Structure and Hero's Journey);
• Narrative theories (Propp and Aarne-Thompson Index);
• Representation of interactive narratives (graphs and event trees);
• Generation of interactive narratives:
• Design and authoring of interactive scripts;
• Computational methods: plan generation and reuse;
• Dramatization of interactive narratives:
• Dramatization in 2D and 3D virtual environments;
• Dramatization in video;
• Dramatization in virtual/augmented reality;
• Interaction methods for interactive narratives:
• Traditional interaction (computational interfaces);
• Multimodal and multiuser interaction;
• Virtual/augmented reality interaction;
• Interaction through natural language and social networks;

References:

Crawford, C. (2012). Chris Crawford on Interactive Storytelling, 2nd edition. New Riders. ISBN: 978-0321864970.

Alexander, B. (2017). The New Digital Storytelling: Creating Narratives with New Media. Praeger. ISBN: 978-1440849602.