SAGE: StoryTelling Agent Generation Environment 

A toolkit for creating conversational agents developed by Prof. Bers in 1997 as part of her MS thesis at the MIT Media Lab

Related Papers

Bers, M. & Cassell, J. (2000). Children as Designers of Interactive Storytellers: Let Me Tell You a Story about Myself. In Dautenhahn, K. (Ed.) Human Cognition and Social Agent Technology (pp. 61-83). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Bers, M. (1999). Narrative Construction Kits: Who am I? Who are you? What are we?: Proceedings of Narrative Intelligence Fall Symposium, (pp. 44-51).

Bers, M. & Cassell, J. (1999). Interactive Storytelling Systems for children: using technology to explore language and identity. Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 9(2), 603-609.

Bers, M. (1998). A constructionist approach to values through on-line narrative tools: Proceedings of International Conference for the Learning Sciences, (pp. 49-55).

Umaschi, M. (1996). Rabbi: exploring the inner world through stories. Proceedings of AAAI ’96, (p. 1413). Student Abstracts, Volume II, MIT Press (ps format).

Umaschi, M. & Cassell, J. (1997). Storytelling Systems: Constructing the Innerface of the Interface: Proceedings of Cognitive Technologies (pp. 98-108). IEEE.

Umaschi, M. (1997). Soft Toys with Computer Hearts: Building Personal Storytelling Environments: Proceedings of CHI’97, (pp. 20-21). ACM, (HTML format).

Glos, J. & Umaschi, M. (1997). Once Upon an Object: Computationally-augmented Toys for Storytelling: Proceedings of ICCIMA ’97 (pp. 245-249). Gold Coast, Australia.

Umaschi, M. (1996). SAGE Storytellers: Learning about Identity, Language and Technology: Proceedings of ICLS ’96 (pp. 526-531). AACE.