[Nell] Collaboration on Nell.

[C. Scott Ananian]

(Context: https://twitter.com/#!/mark_riedl/status/181727307856216064 /
https://twitter.com/#!/mark_riedl/status/182231657674317824 / section 2.2
of http://cscott.net/Publications/OLPC/idc2012.pdf)

Hi, Mark.  Chris Ball and I attended your "Intelligent Narrative
Generation" talk at MIT back in August (at the invitation of Nick Montfort
and the Boston-IF group), and it sparked a lot of our subsequent thinking.
 So we'd love to collaborate on Nell.

I think the most logical focus for collaboration would be the story model,
which you've got a lot more experience with.  We're very interested in
making the story models highly editable, so that teachers (and the students
themselves) can easily write stories and/or edit existing stories to make
them more remixable.  Merging the Wide Ruled/Story Canvas style of editors
with the more powerful planners in your work would be very interesting.
 Incremental planning is also very interesting to us -- rather than writing
the entire story at once, concentrating on writing one 'episode' at a time,
while leaving threads open to weave into subsequent episodes (as in the
UNIVERSE work).  The broader work you've done on narrative arc and suspense
is also very interesting -- can it be used to improve teacher's lesson
plans and integrate them into a longer-term arc?  These are just my first
thoughts; what were you thinking?
  --scott

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