Topics include:

• Artificial intelligence for story generation and storytelling
• Computational understanding, analysis, and summarization of narratives, including natural language processing and computer vision
• Applications of intelligent narrative technologies, including education and healthcare
• Drama management for interactive narratives
• Narrative discourse generation
• Virtual cinematography for narratives
• Virtual characters that converse, narrate, perform, and behave believably
• Computable narrative models inspired by cognitive science, narratology, drama studies, and related disciplines
• Narrative presence and engagement in virtual environments
• Narrative-related affect and emotion
• Narrative knowledge acquisition
• Computational creativity in narrative systems
• Authoring tools for intelligent narrative technologies, including collaborative authoring
• Evaluation methods for intelligent narrative technologies
• User studies and deployed intelligent narrative systems
• Human-computer interaction with narrative technologies