Narrative Intelligence

Advances in Consciousness Research #46

by Michael Mateas, Phoebe Sengers (Editor)

Narrative Intelligence (NI) -- the confluence of narrative, Artificial Intelligence, and media studies -- studies, models, and supports the human use of narrative to understand the world. This volume brings together established work and founding documents in Narrative Intelligence to form a common reference point for NI researchers, providing perspectives from computational linguistics, agent research, psychology, ethology, art, and media theory. It describes artificial agents with narratively structured behavior, agents that take part in stories and tours, systems that automatically generate stories, dramas, and documentaries, and systems that support people telling their own stories. It looks at how people use stories, the features of narrative that play a role in how people understand the world, and how human narrative ability may have evolved. It addresses meta-issues in NI: the history of the field, the stories AI researchers tell about their research, and the effects those stories have on the things they discover. (Series B)

342 pages, Hardcover

First published February 27, 2003

About the author

Michael Mateas is Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz

Reviews

[Sylvester · Rating 3 out of 5]

Narrative Intelligence is really about verbal communication skills that people develop from childhood. More specifically, how people extract meaning from visual events to translate them into a narrative. Narrative Intelligence covered both cognitive and evolutionary psychology, but I find the "studies" the book discussed to be rather unreliable and not very scientific at all.