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Supporting human creative story authoring with asynthetic audience

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Human creativity plays an important role in the production of many of the media products that permeate our society. However, non-expert creators are often limited by a lack of technical ability, as opposed to creative ability. This is especially true for story authoring. We present an approach to supporting creativity using synthetic audience - an intelligent agent that acts as (a) a surrogate story recipient and (b) critic capable of providing constructive feedback. We describe initial efforts based on computational modeling of cognitive processes and creativity.

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C&C '09: Proceedings of the seventh ACM conference on Creativity and cognition
October 2009
520 pages
ISBN:9781605588650
DOI:10.1145/1640233

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  1. audience modeling
  2. creativity support
  3. story authoring

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