INSCAPE is a 4 year Integrated Project funded by the European Commission under the IST programme in FP6. The aim is to enable ordinary people as well as professionals to use the latest Information Society Technologies to interactively conceive, author, publish and experience interactive stories, whatever their form, be it theatre, movies, television, cartoon, advertisement, puppet shows, new media art, video-games, interactive manuals and courses, training simulators, showrooms, etc. The scope covers the creation, acquisition, production, management, sharing, and multi-sensorial rendering of interactive stories across multiple channels and platforms.
People
Holger Schnädelbach, Boriana Koleva, Neil Madden, Brian Logan, Marina Ng, Steve Benford.
Main contact
Partners
CS Systèmes d’Information SA
Immersion
Digital Video SRL
Realviz
Zentrum für Graphische Datenverarbeitung
Centre for user-oriented IT Design, Kungliga Tekniska Hoegskolan
University of Aveiro
Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz Gmbh
Alterface
Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Ingénieurs de Constructions Aéronautiques
International Centre for New Media
zVisuel SA
Culture Lab University of Newcastle
Funding
| Funding body: | European Commission (under the IST programme in FP6) |
| Amount of funding: | £700,000 approximately |
| Duration of funding: | 4 years |
Project Overview
INSCAPE aims at enabling ordinary people to use and master the latest Information Society Technologies for interactively conceiving, authoring, publishing and experiencing interactive stories . The stories can be in any form: be it movies, cartoons, puppet shows, video-games, interactive manuals, training simulators, etc.
INSCAPE will generate and develop knowledge in the emerging domain of Interactive Storytelling. It will achieve this by researching, implementing, demonstrating and disseminating a complete suite of innovative concepts, tools and working methods tightly integrated in a homogeneous framework. Moreover, the project empowers people with no particular computer skills to progress from content acquisition and creation, through organising, processing, sharing and using, all the way to publishing. So INSCAPE enables people to progress from being viewers to creators.
At Nottingham we are investigating the use of mobile devices, multiple input and output devices and intelligent agents for interactive storytelling.
Publications
Tallyn E., Koleva B., Logan B., Benford S., Gelmini G. and Madden N. “Embodied reporting agents as an approach to creating narratives from live virtual worlds”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, proceedings of International Conference on Virtual Storytelling 2005, Strasbourg, November 2005.
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