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Improvisational storytelling requires participants to be aware of collaborators’ actions, and to anticipate each other’s upcoming actions so as to create a coherent story. This paper describes the AntWriter improvisational writing system, a computer-based shared workspace for collaborative storytelling. Our system uses a “temporal window” to provide a visualization of a short slice of time where participants can coordinate their upcoming actions during real-time text-based storytelling performances. By providing a concrete, manipulable representation of upcoming actions, AntWriter aims to support anticipation of collaborators’ upcoming actions as a means to encourage extremely short-term planning and coordination within real-time collaboration, without losing the immediacy and spontaneity of improvisational storytelling.
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This research is funded under the National University of Singapore Humanities and Social Sciences Seed Fund grant “Communication Strategies in Real-time Computer-Mediated Creative Collaboration”.
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Mitchell, A., Yew, J., Wyse, L., Ang, D., Thattai, P. (2017). The AntWriter Improvisational Writing System: Visualizing and Coordinating Upcoming Actions. In: Nunes, N., Oakley, I., Nisi, V. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10690. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71027-3_38
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