The first workshop on Benchmarking Interactive Narrative Systems (BEINS) is facing the issue of evaluation and comparison of Interactive Narrative Systems with a benchmark approach.

The BEINS workshop is an informal workshop where everybody is asked to actively participate in discussions and debates on benchmarking. The short-term goal is to come up with a series of propositions to be discussed during the next ICIDS conference.

It is entirely online, with a first part involving asynchronous activities, and a second part consisting of a synchronous online event on June 13th, 2019.