AI and Storytelling
An exciting fusion of creative writing and artificial intelligence to help writers create new forms of dynamic, interactive stories. An Innovate-funded collaboration between game company Charisma.AI, immersive company Parabolic Theatre, and King's College London, it specifically aimed to understand what the impact of artificially-intelligent memory is on storytelling and narrative structure, and how to transfer the resulting research into industry.
KDL Director James Smithies was PI on the project, while Senior RSE Elliott Hall was Co-I, serving as the head writer and technical consultant for two showcase demos in Unity created to refine the Charisma platform: For King & Country and The Kraken Wakes. Professor Sarah Atkinson was Co-Investigator.
An article based on this project, "Applied Digital Humanities and the Creative Industries in the United Kingdom" By Smithies, Atkinson, and Hall, is now available in Issue 16.2 of Digital Humanities Quarterly.
Our Partners
Principal Investigator
Former Lab Director (2015-2021), King's Digital Lab
Investigators
Senior Research Software Engineer
Professor of Screen Media
Affiliations
Project websites
Funding
Funding Body: Innovate UK
Amount: £302,974
Period: January 2018 - December 2019