Call for Papers

Important Information:

Submission deadline: September 6th, 2025 (Extended)

Notification of acceptance: September 23rd, 2025

Camera-Ready Version Deadline: October 18th, 2024

Workshop Date: November 11th, 2025

Submission link: CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT 

         (Choose "author" -> "New Submission" -> "Intelligent Narrative Technologies 2025 Workshop" track) 

Registration: CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

Submission Types

We invite submissions of full papers describing completed or ongoing relevant research (10-15 pages, including references and appendices) and short papers (5-9 pages, including references and appendices).

Position papers are also welcome.

Topics

We welcome submissions on all aspects of computational and interactive narrative, including, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Computational Models of Narrative Generation

• Narrative discourse generation

• Computable narrative models inspired by cognitive science, narratology, drama studies, and related disciplines

• Drama management for interactive narratives

• Applications of intelligent narrative technologies, including education and healthcare

• Virtual characters that converse, narrate, perform, and behave believably

• Narrative knowledge acquisition

• Computational creativity in narrative systems

• Computational Models of Narrative Experience

• Models and measures of engagement in interactive narrative

• Cognitive models of film perception

• User studies and deployed intelligent narrative and smart camera systems

• Human-computer interaction with narrative

• Narrative presence and engagement in virtual environments

• Narrative-related affect and emotion

• Evaluation of methodologies and user experience

• Narrative Interpretation and Multimodal Analysis R. Computational understanding, analysis, and summarization of film and narratives, including natural language processing and computer vision

• Interaction-oriented video and narrative annotation tools and corpora

• Virtual cinematography for narratives

• Authoring tools for intelligent video and narrative technologies, including collaborative authoring

• Narrative storyboarding

Submission instructions

Papers should be formatted in CEUR one-column, camera-ready style, and anonymized for double-blind review. Use the 1-column format (2-column format is longer be accepted by CEUR; Word/Microsoft365 template is no longer accepted by CEUR). Overleaf users can use the available template.

All papers must have a section called "Declaration on Generative AI". See https://ceur-ws.org/GenAI/Policy.html

We will work with the The AIIDE Workshop Chair to get the proceedings ready for publication. Two examples of prior AIIDE workshop proceedings can be found at: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3926/ and  https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3847/.  CEUR workshop proceedings are indexed by scholarly sites such as DBLP, Semantic Scholar, and Scopus.

Please contact the workshop organizers if you have any questions or concerns.

Submission Link: [SUBMISSION LINK]

   [SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS]

Organizers

Mahdi Farrokhimaleki (Mahdi.farrokhimaleki@ucalgary.ca)

Olga Koldachenko (olga.koldachenko@ucalgary.ca)

Parsa Rahmati (parsa.rahmaty@ucalgary.ca)

Setareh Abhari (setareh.abhari@ucalgary.ca)