The House with a Million Windows: Interactive Fiction for Narrative Restorying

📅 2026-09-11
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为解决AI辅助写作导致故事同质化问题,本文介绍了一种基于大语言模型的互动小说系统HWAMW,通过提供多种文学风格的故事重构来帮助用户探索个人故事的深度和广度。
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AI-assisted writing can flatten meaning in human storytelling, enabling the production of homogeneous outputs without the intentional effort and sense-making writing entails. To address this challenge, we present The House with a Million Windows (HWAMW), an LLM-based interactive fiction system designed to help users explore both the breadth and depth of potential meanings within their personal stories -- drawing on a psychological paradigm called the restorying intervention. In HWAMW, users play through a text-based narrative in which they tell a story, then encounter a set of LLM-generated "windows" reframing it according to different literary styles. Empirical evidence shows that HWAMW increases users' sense of narrative identity, while an expert review explores how this effect is achieved. Our findings suggest that HWAMW facilitates restorying and offers a valuable paradigm for AI-assisted writing, wherein LLMs do not tell our stories but rather help us see greater potential in the stories we tell.
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AI-assisted writing
homogeneous outputs
narrative identity
restorying intervention
LLM-generated
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interactive fiction
restorying intervention
narrative identity
LLM-generated styles
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