Stories are one of the primary forms we use to organize our lived experiences into patterned narratives that aspire to communicate that which is memorable and valuable. SRMC 2008 provides a forum for multimedia researchers and practitioners to share their novel insights and understandings of the human and machine storytelling abilities necessary for the development of engaging, participatory and sustainable multimedia systems.

Narrative structure models are useful tools for understand-ing how and why narratives of any medium affect an audi-ence’s level of participation in their role of story reconstruc-tion and understanding. [14] With the advent of the com-puter comes the potential to negotiate through many such models and variables within models as a means of generat-ing multiple narratives quickly and semi-autonomously. The computational narrative model presented in this paper offers one approach to narrative generation, that of splitting narrative structure; 2) defining a collection and organization of story pieces with some representation of their meaning; and 3) a navigational strategy or reasoning through that col-lection of story pieces. Agent Stories is a story design and presentation environment for non-linear, multiple-point-of-view cinematic stories. It is designed to be placed in the hands of the non-linear story writer to use as a tool to pro-mote structuring and re-writing of non-linear narratives be-fore and as they are realized in audio and video.