Area editor: Elisabeth André
The following software announcements have been received for the ETAI area
"Intelligent User Interfaces" and are in the stage of open
discussion. We would like to encourage you to try out these demos and send all comments to andre@dfki.de.
National Technical University of Athens
Interactive Story System ISS
Abstract: The DEFACTO project seeks to create a computational framework for the design of interactive story systems (ISS). ISS are a new, computer-based art form, providing experiences that are both meaningfully interactive and good stories. The result of DEFACTO will be the development of a design framework for creating a new, widely accessible generation of ISS, that strike a balance between interactivity and coherence.
In this demo, the user is allowed to participate as the protagonist in an interactive story set in Ancient Greece. The user can navigate in a 3-D space modeled in VRML and interact with the rest of the story characters to achieve a set of goals given in the story intro.
The purpose of this demo is to determine the user requirements for an ISS interface on the Web and to evaluate the effectiveness of multimedia presentation techniques for interactive stories.
The demo resides in: http://www.dsclab.ece.ntua.gr/~defacto/demo/DefactoDemo.htm
The Web site for DEFACTO is: http://www.dsclab.ece.ntua.gr/~defacto
Date of Submission: January 17, 1998