3 papers
cs.HC2026
The Garden of Forking Paths: Narrative Arc-Conditioned Gameplay Planning
Yunge Wen, Chenliang Huang, Hangyu Zhou +5
Narrative archetypes (e.g., Hero's Journey, Three-act structure) provide universal story structures that resonate across cultures and media and are important for video game storyte…
cs.AI2025
All Stories Are One Story: Emotional Arc Guided Procedural Game Level Generation
Yunge Wen, Chenliang Huang, Hangyu Zhou +5
The emotional arc is a universal narrative structure underlying stories across cultures and media -- an idea central to structuralist narratology, often encapsulated in the phrase…
cs.HC2025
CoKnowledge: Supporting Assimilation of Time-synced Collective Knowledge in Online Science Videos
Yuanhao Zhang, Yumeng Wang, Xiyuan Wang +3
Danmaku, a system of scene-aligned, time-synced, floating comments, can augment video content to create 'collective knowledge'. However, its chaotic nature often hinders viewers fr…