A new system, called Literatronic, has been created for hypertext authoring. Rather than using links to connect the passages of their stories, authors can assign numbers to tell Literatronic how much affinity one passage has with another. A reader will be presented with choices of what to read next, based upon these affinities. Once a reader has read a passage, it will not be available again as a choice to read next, unless the reader goes back to the map of already read text and marks the text as unread. The system goes further than this, in that it uses artificial intelligence to adapt to a reader’s previous choices and to use information about them to compute the next set of choices. A much more detailed look at Literatronic, and how it has the potential to change the way the way that hypertext literature is written and read, is available on the WRT blog.

Other Posts Categorized as Hypermedia Storytelling:

• New on Dreaming Methods: "The Flat" - October 16th, 2006
• Bunk Magazine, a Hypermedia Humor E-Zine, Launches - September 11th, 2006
• Who Reads Hypermediated Tales? Children. - March 7th, 2006

Other Posts Categorized as Writing:

• Getting Caught Up on My Online Novel Writing Class - July 4th, 2007
• The Myth of Merula Expands from Fictional Story to Fictional Website - April 8th, 2007
• Writers as Myth-Makers, Artists as Shamans - March 31st, 2007
• Heroes and Heroines in Romance and Other Genres - March 24th, 2007
• Online Novel Writing Class Is Helpful for Writing The Myth of Merula - February 18th, 2007
• Anais Nin, Science Fiction Prose Style - October 28th, 2006
• GAM3R 7H30RY - May 28th, 2006
• Without Gods - A Blog to Book Experiment - May 28th, 2006
• simply7 by Deena Larsen - April 5th, 2006
• Quantum Writing - March 16th, 2006