Publications

• A tabletop interactive storytelling system: designing for social interaction. Thijs Alofs, Mariët Theune and Ivo Swartjes. International Journal of Arts and Technology 8(3), 188-211.

• Generating game narratives with focalization and flashbacks. Marissa Hoek, Mariët Theune and Jeroen Linssen. Proceedings of 3rd Workshop on Games and NLP (GAMNLP-14) held at AIIDE-14, October 3, 2014, Raleigh, NC, USA, pp. 9-14.
• Hide and sneak: story generation with characters that perceive and assume. Hans ten Brinke, Jeroen Linssen and Mariët Theune. Proceedings of the Tenth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE-14), October 3-7, 2014, Raleigh, NC, USA, pp. 174-180.
• Meta-techniques for a social awareness learning game. Jeroen Linssen and Mariët Theune. In the Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Games Based Learning (ECGBL 2014), 9-10 October 2014, Berlin, Germany, pp. 697-704.

• AGENT: Awareness Game Environment for Natural Training. Jeroen Linssen and Thomas de Groot. Proceedings of the Foundations of Digital Games Conference 2013 (FDG 2013), 14–17 May 2013 Chania, Crete, Greece, pp. 433-434.
• Having one's cake and eating it too: coherence of children's emergent narratives. Mariët Theune, Thijs Alofs, Jeroen Linssen and Ivo Swartjes. Proceedings of the 2013 Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative, Hamburg, Germany, 4–6 August 2013. OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs) vol. 32, pp. 293-309.
• Acting, playing or talking about the story: children's communication during interactive digital storytelling. Mariët Theune, Jeroen Linssen and Thijs Alofs. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS 2013), Istanbul, Turkey, 6-9 November 2013, pp. 132-143.

• Using out-of-character reasoning to combine storytelling and education in a serious game. Jeroen Linssen and Mariët Theune. Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Pedagogically–Driven Serious Games (PDSG 2012) at EC-TEL 2012, Saarbrücken (Germany), 18 September 2012, pp. 27-30.

• A tabletop board game interface for multi-user interaction with a storytelling system. Thijs Alofs, Mariët Theune and Ivo Swartjes. In the Proceedings of The Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (INTETAIN 2011), 25-27 May 2011, Genova, Italy. Springer LNICST 78, pp. 123-128.

• Whose story is it anyway? How improv informs agency and authorship of emergent narrative. Ivo Swartjes. PhD thesis, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands. 

• Late commitment: virtual story characters that can frame their world. Ivo Swartjes and Mariët Theune. Technical Report TR-CTIT-09-18, Centre for Telematics and Information Technology, University of Twente, Enschede.
• An experiment in improvised interactive drama. Ivo Swartjes and Mariët Theune. In the Proceedings of The Third International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Entertainment (INTETAIN 2009), 22-24 June 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 234-239. NB: a longer, unpublished version of this paper can be found HERE.
• Iterative authoring using story generation feedback: debugging or co-creation? Ivo Swartjes and Mariët Theune. In the Proceedings of the Second Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS 2009), 9-11 December 2009, Guimarães, Portugal. Springer LNCS volume 5915, pp. 62-73.

• Emergent narrative and late commitment. Ivo Swartjes, Edze Kruizinga, Mariët Theune and Dirk Heylen. In the  Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2008), 1-3 September 2008, Tokyo, Japan. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5208, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pages 543-544. © Springer
• The Virtual Storyteller: story generation by simulation. Ivo Swartjes and Mariët Theune. In the Proceedings of the 20th Belgian-Netherlands Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC 2008), 30-31 October 2008, University of Twente, the Netherlands, pp. 257-264.
• Let's pretend I had a sword: late commitment in emergent narrative. Ivo Swartjes, Edze Kruizinga and Mariët Theune. In the Proceedings of the First Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS 2008), 26-29 November 2008, Erfurt, Germany.Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5334, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 264-267. © Springer
• Purposeful authoring for emergent narrative. Sandy Louchart, Ivo Swartjes, Michael Kriegel and Ruth Aylett (2008). In the Proceedings of the First Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS 2008), 26-29 November 2008, Erfurt, Germany. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5334, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 273-284. © Springer

• Narrative inspiration: using case based problem solving to support emergent story generation. Ivo Swartjes, Joost Vromen and Niels Bloom. In the Proceedings of 4th International Joint Workshop on Computational Creativity, 17-19 June 2007 Goldsmiths, University of London, 2007.
• The Narrator: NLG for digital storytelling. Mariët Theune, Nanda Slabbers and Feikje Hielkema. In the Proceedings of the 11th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG'07), Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, pages 109-112, 2007.
  
• Cueing the Virtual Storyteller: analysis of cue phrase usage in fairy tales. Manon Penning and Mariët Theune. In the Proceedings of the 11th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG'07), Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, pages 159-162, 2007.
• Using narrative cases to author interactive story content. Ivo Swartjes. In the Proceedings of ICEC 2007: International Conference on Entertainment Computing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4740, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pages 205-210, 2007.© Springer.
• Emergent story generation: lessons from improvisational theater. Ivo Swartjes and Joost Vromen. In the Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Intelligent Narrative Technologies, 9-11 November 2007, Arlington VA, USA.
• The automatic generation of narratives. Mariët Theune, Nanda Slabbers and Feikje Hielkema. In the Proceedings of the 17th Conference on Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN-17), Centre for Computational Linguistics, Peter Dirix, Ineke Schuurman, Vincent Vandeghinste, and Frank Van Eynde (eds.), LOT Occasional Series 7, LOT, Utrecht, pages 131-146.

• Performing aggregation and ellipsis using discourse structures. Mariët Theune, Feikje Hielkema and Petra Hendriks. Research on Language and Computation 4(4), pages 353-375, 2006. © Springer. (Click here for the publisher's final version at www.springerlink.com)
• A Fabula model for emergent narrative. Ivo Swartjes and Mariët Theune. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment (TIDSE 2006), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4326, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pages 49-60, 2006.  © Springer. 
• Designing a story database for use in automatic story generation. Katri Oinonen, Mariët Theune, Anton Nijholt and Jasper Uijlings. Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2006: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4161, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pages 298-301, 2006. © Springer.
  
• Generating expressive speech for storytelling applications (preprint). Mariët Theune, Koen Meijs, Dirk Heylen and Roeland Ordelman. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing 14(4), pages 1137-1144, 2006. © IEEE
• De Virtuele Verhalenverteller. Mariët Theune. Vertel Eens 1(3), December 2006, page 29.
  

• Getting the story right: making computer-generated stories more entertaining, Katri Oinonen, Mariët Theune, Anton Nijholt and Dirk Heylen. The International Conference on INtelligent TEchnologies for interactive enterTAINment (INTETAIN 2005), Madonna di Campiglio, Italy, 2005. © Springer.
• Generating ellipsis using discourse structures, Feikje Hielkema, Mariët Theune and Petra Hendriks. ESSLLI Workshop on Cross-Modular Approaches to Ellipsis, 8-12 August 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2005.

• Emotional characters for automatic plot creation, Mariët Theune, Sander Rensen, Rieks op den Akker, Dirk Heylen and Anton Nijholt. In S. Göbel, A. Hoffmann, I. Iurgel, O. Schneider, J. Dechau, A. Feix and U. Spierling (eds.), Proceedings TIDSE 2004: Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3105, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pages 95-100, 2004. © Springer.

• The Virtual Storyteller: story creation by intelligent agents, Mariët Theune, Sander Faas, Anton Nijholt and Dirk Heylen. In S. Göbel, N. Braun, U. Spierling, J. Dechau and H. Diener (eds.), Proceedings TIDSE 2003: Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment, Fraunhofer IRB Verlag, pages 204-215, 2003.

• The Virtual Storyteller, Mariët Theune, Sander Faas, Anton Nijholt and Dirk Heylen. In ACM SIGGROUP Bulletin, Volume 23, Issue 2, ACM Press, pages 20-21, 2002.