A Tabletop Board Game Interface for Multi-User Interaction with a Storytelling System

Thijs Alofs; Mariët Theune; Ivo Swartjes

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-30214-5_14

A Tabletop Board Game Interface for Multi-User Interaction with a Storytelling System

Thijs Alofs
, Mariët Theune
, Ivo Swartjes

University of Twente

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Abstract

The Interactive Storyteller is an interactive storytelling system with a multi-user tabletop interface. Our goal was to design a generic framework combining emergent narrative, where stories emerge from the actions of autonomous intelligent agents, with the social aspects of traditional board games. As a visual representation of the story world, a map is displayed on a multi-touch table. Users can interact with the story by touching an interface on the table surface with their fingers and by moving tangible objects that represent the characters. This type of interface, where multiple users are gathered around a table with equal access to the characters and the story world, offers a more social setting for interaction than most existing interfaces for AI-based interactive storytelling.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment
Subtitle of host publication	4th International ICST Conference, INTETAIN 2011, Genova, Italy, May 25-27, 2011, Revised Selected Papers
Editors	Antonio Camurri, Cristina Costa
Place of Publication	Heidelberg
Publisher	Springer
Pages	123-128
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-642-30214-5
ISBN (Print)	978-3-642-30213-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30214-5_14
Publication status	Published - 26 May 2011
Event	4th International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment, INTETAIN 2011 - Genova, Italy Duration: 25 May 2011 → 27 May 2011 Conference number: 4

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Name	Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Volume	78
ISSN (Print)	1867-8211

Conference

Conference	4th International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment, INTETAIN 2011
Abbreviated title	INTETAIN
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Genova
Period	25/05/11 → 27/05/11

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Alofs, T., Theune, M., & Swartjes, I. (2011). A Tabletop Board Game Interface for Multi-User Interaction with a Storytelling System. In A. Camurri, & C. Costa (Eds.), Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment : 4th International ICST Conference, INTETAIN 2011, Genova, Italy, May 25-27, 2011, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 123-128). (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering; Vol. 78). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30214-5_14

Alofs, Thijs ; Theune, Mariët ; Swartjes, Ivo. / A Tabletop Board Game Interface for Multi-User Interaction with a Storytelling System. Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment : 4th International ICST Conference, INTETAIN 2011, Genova, Italy, May 25-27, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. editor / Antonio Camurri ; Cristina Costa. Heidelberg : Springer, 2011. pp. 123-128 (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering).

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Alofs, T, Theune, M & Swartjes, I 2011, A Tabletop Board Game Interface for Multi-User Interaction with a Storytelling System. in A Camurri & C Costa (eds), Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment : 4th International ICST Conference, INTETAIN 2011, Genova, Italy, May 25-27, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol. 78, Springer, Heidelberg, pp. 123-128, 4th International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment, INTETAIN 2011, Genova, Italy, 25/05/11. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30214-5_14

A Tabletop Board Game Interface for Multi-User Interaction with a Storytelling System. / Alofs, Thijs; Theune, Mariët; Swartjes, Ivo.
Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment : 4th International ICST Conference, INTETAIN 2011, Genova, Italy, May 25-27, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. ed. / Antonio Camurri; Cristina Costa. Heidelberg: Springer, 2011. p. 123-128 (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering; Vol. 78).

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Alofs T, Theune M, Swartjes I. A Tabletop Board Game Interface for Multi-User Interaction with a Storytelling System. In Camurri A, Costa C, editors, Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment : 4th International ICST Conference, INTETAIN 2011, Genova, Italy, May 25-27, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Heidelberg: Springer. 2011. p. 123-128. (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering). doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-30214-5_14

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