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Buzz: telling compelling stories

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This paper describes a digital theater installation called Buzz. Buzz consists of virtual actors who express the collective voice generated by weblogs (blogs). These actors find compelling stories from blogs and perform them. In this paper, we explore what it means for a story to be compelling and describe a set of techniques for retrieving compelling stories. We also outline an architecture for high level direction of a performance using Adaptive Retrieval Charts (ARCs), allowing a director-level of interaction with the performance system. Our overall goal in this work is to build a model of human behavior on a new foundation of query formation, information retrieval and filtering.

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MM '06: Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Multimedia
October 2006
1072 pages
ISBN:1595934472
DOI:10.1145/1180639
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  1. blogs
  2. culture
  3. emotion
  4. media arts
  5. network arts
  6. software agents
  7. story generation
  8. world wide web

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MM06: The 14th ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2006
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