Chapter 19 Research
RESEARCH ON INTERACTIVE STORYTELLING goes back to 1985, when Brenda Laurel addressed the notion in her doctoral thesis. A group of graduate students at MIT began exploring the relationship between narrative and computers in the early 1990s. Agent-based technology drifted toward storytelling issues in the mid-1990s, and Stanford hosted the Interactive Story Systems conference in 1995. That early work was tentative, but people were definitely starting to show interest. Janet Murray published her popular book Hamlet on the Holodeck in 1997, describing some of the efforts and possibilities.
Conferences addressing topics related to interactive storytelling were held in Avignon, France, in 2001 and Darmstadt, Germany, in 2003. “Narrative ...
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