Driving the narrative flow of an interactive storytelling system for case studies

Abstract

Interactive Storytelling systems combine natural language processing techniques with gameplay to provide a narrative-based environment where a player’s decisions can alter the flow of the game. This type of simulated story world setup can facilitate the teaching and learning of concepts in different domains, such as the case method. A case method is an approach utilized by educators to encourage student participation through the direct discussion of a given specific real-life or imagined situation (the case study) where they can practice their decision-making skills. In this paper, we discuss how we designed an interactive storytelling environment with case studies as its central theme, to enable business students to learn ethical business practices and simulate the effect of their decisions to the organization.