From: diego@minerva.st.dsi.unimi.it (Diego Montefusco)
Subject: Re: INFO?: interactive fiction
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 17:32:05 CET


In <9301082308.AA11488@ghost.dsi.unimi.it>, on Jan 8, you wrote:

> From: pedersen@seas.smu.edu (Ted Pedersen)
> Subject: INFO?: interactive fiction
> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 00:40:10 GMT
> Organization: SMU - School of Engineering & Applied Science - Dallas
> 
> I am interested in finding out about research being done in the area
> of interactive fiction. I would like to find out about the state of
> this area as it exists today and what actual projects are underway or
> have been implemented.

Try to check out the work of Prof. Bates at Carnegie-Mellon (hope this
is right...). They are working on a project called Oz. You can find
more details on the first issue of Presence, or on the (wonderful)
book Computers as Theatre by Brenda Laurel (Addison-Wesley).  This is
more interactive theatre than fiction, anyway...

Diego