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Modifying Entity Relationship Models for Collaborative Fiction Planning and its Impact on Potential Authors

Authors Alan Tapscott, Joaquim Colàs, Ayman Moghnieh, Josep Blat

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  • storytelling
  • story planning
  • Entity Relationship Model

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Abstract

We propose a modified Entity Relationship (E-R) model, traditionally used for software engineering, to structure, store and share plot data. The flexibility of E-R modelling has been demonstrated by its decades of usage in a wide variety of situations. The success of the E-R model suggests that it could be useful for collaborating fiction authors, adding a certain degree of computational power to their process. We changed the E-R model syntax to better suit the story
plans, switching the emphasis from generic types to instanced story entities, but preserving relationships and attributes. We conducted a small-scale basic experiment to study the impact of using our modified E-R model on authors when understanding and contributing into a pre-existing fiction story plan. The results analysis revealed that the E-R model supports authors as effectively as written text in reading comprehension, memory, and contributing. In addition, the results show that, when combined together, the written text and the E-R model help participants achieve better comprehension--always within the frame
of our experiment. We discuss potential applications of these findings.

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Alan Tapscott, Joaquim Colàs, Ayman Moghnieh, and Josep Blat. Modifying Entity Relationship Models for Collaborative Fiction Planning and its Impact on Potential Authors. In 2014 Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative. Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 41, pp. 209-221, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2014) https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.CMN.2014.209

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Alan Tapscott
Joaquim Colàs
Ayman Moghnieh
Josep Blat

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