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Modeling Fair Play in Detective Stories with Language Models
Eitan Wagner, Renana Keydar, Omri Abend
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13841 https://

Modeling Fair Play in Detective Stories with Language Models
Effective storytelling relies on a delicate balance between meeting the reader's prior expectations and introducing unexpected developments. In the domain of detective fiction, this tension is known as fair play, which includes the implicit agreement between the writer and the reader as to the range of possible resolutions the mystery story may have. In this work, we present a probabilistic framework for detective fiction that allows us to define desired qualities. Using this framework, we form…

DiaryPlay: AI-Assisted Authoring of Interactive Vignettes for Everyday Storytelling
Jiangnan Xu, Haeseul Cha, Gosu Choi, Gyu-cheol Lee, Yeo-Jin Yoon, Zucheul Lee, Konstantinos Papangelis, Dae Hyun Kim, Juho Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11628

DiaryPlay: AI-Assisted Authoring of Interactive Vignettes for Everyday Storytelling
An interactive vignette is a popular and immersive visual storytelling approach that invites viewers to role-play a character and influences the narrative in an interactive environment. However, it has not been widely used by everyday storytellers yet due to authoring complexity, which conflicts with the immediacy of everyday storytelling. We introduce DiaryPlay, an AI-assisted authoring system for interactive vignette creation in everyday storytelling. It takes a natural language story as inpu…

I very much feel like what Rob Rosenthal says about producing audio:
https://akademie.dw.com/en/rob-rosenthal-on-audio-storytelling-tips-tools-and-the-power-of-sound/a-71478642?at_dw_languag…

Rob Rosenthal: Crafting compelling audio stories
Rob Rosenthal went from spinning punk records to teaching audio storytelling internationally. Host of the Sound School podcast, he shares tips on narrative, starting small and why audio storytelling is so powerful.

How Vox built a huge YouTube presence, becoming an incubator that invented its own visual language, as ex-staffers like Johnny Harris grow their own channels (Simon Owens/The Long Story with Simon Owens)
https://thelongstory.substack.com/p/why-the-best-jour…

Why the best journalists on YouTube are all former Vox employees
The company became a skunk works incubator that invented its own language of visual storytelling.

Our Coding Adventure: Using LLMs to Personalise the Narrative of a Tangible Programming Robot for Preschoolers
Martin Ruskov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20982

Our Coding Adventure: Using LLMs to Personalise the Narrative of a Tangible Programming Robot for Preschoolers
Finding balanced ways to employ Large Language Models (LLMs) in education is a challenge due to inherent risks of poor understanding of the technology and of a susceptible audience. This is particularly so with younger children, who are known to have difficulties with pervasive screen time. Working with a tangible programming robot called Cubetto, we propose an approach to benefit from the capabilities of LLMs by employing such models in the preparation of personalised storytelling, necessary f…

Crafting Hanzi as Narrative Bridges: An AI Co-Creation Workshop for Elderly Migrants
Wen Zhan, Ziqun Hua, Peiyue Lin, Yunfei Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01548

Crafting Hanzi as Narrative Bridges: An AI Co-Creation Workshop for Elderly Migrants
This paper explores how older adults, particularly aging migrants in urban China, can engage AI-assisted co-creation to express personal narratives that are often fragmented, underrepresented, or difficult to verbalize. Through a pilot workshop combining oral storytelling and the symbolic reconstruction of Hanzi, participants shared memories of migration and recreated new character forms using Xiaozhuan glyphs, suggested by the Large Language Model (LLM), together with physical materials. Suppo…