Computational Narrative: AI as an Expressive Practice
Speaker: 
Jichen Zhu
Institution: 
University of Central Florida
Date: 
22 June 2010 - 12:00pm

The emerging AI research area of computational narrative explores the age-old creative form of storytelling by algorithmically analyzing, understanding, and importantly, generating stories. Compared to the breadth and depth of traditional narratives, however, the stories generated by current planning-based approaches are typically limited to an action-based, goal-driven aesthetics. Our current projects explore computational analogy as a generative technique to narrate the subjective, fluid nature of human psyche. Combining insights from literature, visual arts, cognitive science and artificial intelligence, we intend to expand the expressive range of computational narrative by focusing on characters’ inner world.