Domain Storytelling • Stefan Hofer, Henning Schwentner & Avraham Poupko • GOTO 2022

The interviewer was onto something here. The book is erroneously named. It appears that this is really about narrative modelling - modelling what people are telling you about. Stories are landen with subjectivity and may be a blend of fiction and fact. A narrative is an account of connected events. The latter is what the authors are trying to model. It’s worth noting that a narrative is the telling of a story and it’s the coherence of that telling that the authors are attempting to create shared understanding around using the model as a media device. I would have called the book “Domain Narrative Modeling” but that is not as intriguing :)

Also stories are concrete. The model is abstract as it must represent a repeatable scenario. This is where the art and science is - shifting from people’s concrete narrative to the abstract flow of interactions.