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Modifying Entity Relationship Models for Collaborative Fiction Planning and its Impact on Potential Authors Tapscott, Alan Colàs, Joaquim Moghnieh, Ayman Blat, Josep storytelling story planning Entity Relationship Model 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. Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik Alan Tapscott and Joaquim Colàs and Ayman Moghnieh and Josep Blat 2014 Is Part Of OASIcs, Volume 41, 2014 Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative InProceedings Text doc-type:ResearchArticle publishedVersion application/pdf doi:10.4230/OASIcs.CMN.2014.209 urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-46588 https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.CMN.2014.209 eng https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode