Visual Story-Writing: Writing by Manipulating Visual Representations of Stories
summary
A text editor that auto-generates an entity-interaction graph, a world map of character locations, and a synchronized drag-to-edit timeline links visual manipulations to suggested text edits: connecting nodes creates interactions, dragging a character updates described locations, and reordering timeline events proposes narrative sequence changes. Two user studies (visuals-only vs text baseline, and a fully manipulable system with creative writers) show visuals aid planning, tracking, and idea exploration but generated edits are rough — useful as starting points, rarely adopted verbatim; source code and a demo are available.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction to Visual Story-Writing
- 1:57Problem with Traditional Story Editing
- 3:00Bal’s Narratology Model and Framework
- 4:04Visual Story-Writing System Overview
- 6:15User Study Findings and Feedback
- 8:40Summary and Future Applications
- 9:21Q&A Session Begins
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