Slideshow of the paper presented at the Artech 2019 conference in Braga, Portugal. Abstract: "This article presents an approach for reusing choreographies of digital stories, regardless of the platform for which they have been developed. Currently, story choreographies are locked-in to the technology for which they have been implemented (game, simulation, interactive animations), becoming unavailable as these platforms are rendered obsolete. This lack of reuse inhibits the adoption of digital storytelling: to perpetuate digital stories one requires new and repeated efforts and investments to recreate them for new technological platforms that replace previous ones. Our proposed methodology safeguards the narrative semantics of the story choreographies in a platform-independent way, allowing them to be automatically adapted to new technological platforms when the original ones become obsolete."

2. Story choreographies go
from staging diagrams
to prototypes,
until final rendering

3. In serious games, training simulations, data analysis,
and after-action review, the most valuable information
is not the visual quality: it’s the meaning of actions.

4. The semantics of the story choreographies depend
on the actual purpose of the
game/simulation/animation/interactive video…

5. “Initially, instructors may make time for
using a new training game. However, if the
game cannot be modified according to their
experience, their changing training needs,
or the emerging conditions of the current
operational environment, then the game
will not be utilized.”

6. Someone Does something Somewhere

7. X
Actor Verb Place Context

9. Anything that renders
the story choreography.

12. Darth Vader Luke Skywalker
Cloud City Core
Story Recipe
ACTOR:
VERB:
PLACE:
Darth Vader
Luke Skywalker
being at
saying
looking at
going to
rotating
getting up
climbing down
gesturing
Upper platform
Center of beam
End of beam
Pole
Lower platform
shouting
rotating
climbing up
climbing down
expressing
crying
denying
fighting

13. Two sample platforms

14. Platform Recipe
ACTOR:
VERB:
PLACE:
Darth Vader
Luke Skywalker
Placing sprite
Showing speech bubble
Selecting sprite version
Upper platform
Center of beam
End of beam
Pole
Lower platform
CONTEXT: Camera position

15. Platform Recipe
ACTOR:
VERB:
PLACE:
Cloaked one
Romeu
Show character
Speak
Change visuals
Castle entry
Remains of battle
CONTEXT: Camera position

16. Darth Vader Luke Skywalker
Cloud City Core
Darth Vader
Luke Skywalker
saying
Cloud City Core
ACTOR:
VERB:
PLACE:
<demo> Story Recipe

17. Darth Vader Luke Skywalker
Cloud City Core
{
"actor":[
{
"id":"A01",
"name":“Darth Vader“
},
{
"id":"A02",
"name":“Luke “
}
],
"verb":[
{
"id":“<URL>/verbs/saying",
"name":“Saying"
}
],
"place":[ //...similar
<demo> Story Recipe as JSON

18. ACTOR:
VERB:
PLACE:
Cloaked one
Romeu
Speak
Castle
<demo> Platform Recipe
{also as JSON}

19. RECIPE MATCHING

20. Outcome: Platform-Adapted Choreography

21. Live demo: comics and 3D
Our prototype
Comics storytelling
with Lego superheroes
3D Unity movie set
with medieval characters

22. 3D Unity movie set
with medieval characters
cavaleiro_negro troll cavaleiro_soldado lady_pirata
Darth Vader Luke Skywalker

23. Comics storytelling with Lego superheroes
superman batman wonder monstro inimigo
Darth VaderLuke Skywalker

24. http://abre.ai/chicLive demo:

25. http://abre.ai/chicLive demo:

26. Your
questions
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