New Methods of Analysis of Narrative and Semantics in Support of Interactivity

Abstract: Our work has focused on support for film or television scriptwriting. Since this involves potentially varied story-lines, we note the implicit or latent support for interactivity. Furthermore the film, television, games, publishing and other sectors are converging, so that cross-over and re-use of one form of product in another of these sectors is ever more common. Technically our work has been largely based on mathematical algorithms for data clustering and display. Operationally, we also discuss how our algorithms can support collective, distributed problem-solving.