Topics include

• Theories and aesthetics of interactive storytelling
• Narratology for interactive media
• Cognitive, conative and affective aspects of narrative interactive systems
• Models of narrative logic
• The role of the author/designer in interactive storytelling

• Story/world generation and experience management
• Virtual characters and virtual humans
• Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems
• Synthetic actors
• Semantic knowledge representation and reasoning about stories
• Natural language generation and understanding
• Non-verbal interactive stories
• User modelling and narrative user interfaces
• Authoring modes and tools for interactive digital storytelling
• Media, VR and game technologies for interactive storytelling

• Methods for testing user experience in interactive storytelling
• Evaluation of interactive storytelling applications
• Reviews, critical and normative analysis of creative works
• Case studies, post-mortems and best practices

• Collaborative storytelling environments and multi-user systems
• Social, ubiquitous and mobile storytelling
• Interactive narratives in digital games
• Interactive cinema and television
• Interactive storyworlds
• Interactive non-fiction and interactive documentaries
• Interactive narratives as tools for learning in teaching, e-learning, training and edutainment
• Interactive narratives used in health, rehabilitation and exercise
• Interactive storytelling in roleplay, larps, theatre and improvisation
• Collaborative authoring
• Interactive narrative in the real world (live installations)
• Interactive narratives in museums
• Future applications