About the Author

Takashi Ogata , after receiving his bachelor of social science in Waseda University in 1983, he received his M.S. in Tsukuba University in 1992 and his Ph.D. in the University of Tokyo in 1995. He has industrial experience since 1983 at software development companies. Having experienced Associate Professor of the Faculty of Engineering at Yamanashi University since 1997, he is Professor of the Faculty of Software and Information Science at Iwate Prefectural University since 2005. His major research interests include artificial intelligence, cognitive science, natural language processing, narratology and literary theories, an interdisciplinary approach to the development of narrative generation systems based on AI and narratology, and the application to narrative creation and business. He is a member of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, the Japanese Cognitive Science Society (committee), and the Japanese Association for Natural Language Processing. He is also a main manager of Literature, Cognition and Computer research group at the JCSS. He received JSAI best paper award (1996), best paper award of Japan Academy of Advertising (1996), and other academic awards. Jumpei Ono received his Bachelor in Faculty School of Software and Information Science from Iwate Prefectural University in 2010. He received his M.S. degree and his Ph.D. in Graduate School of Software and Information Science from Iwate Prefectural University in 2014 and 2018. He is having experienced instructor of information and communication technology at Vocational School of Digital Arts Sendai since 2018, he is Assistant Professor of the Faculty of Software and Information Technology at Aomori University since 2020.. He is a member of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI), the Japanese Cognitive Science Society (JCSS), the Japanese Association for Natural Language Processing, Digital Games Research Association Japan (DiGRA Japan), and the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE). He received Excellent Student Award of the IEICE Tohoku Section (2017) and Iwate Prefectural University President’s Award (2018). His main papers include “A Study on an Automatic Narrative Generation Game Based on Gaps and Surprise: An Approach Using Table-talk Role Playing Games and an Integrated Narrative Generation System”(Ono, J., 2018, Ph.D. dissertation of Iwate Prefectural University), “Surprise-Based Narrative Generation in an Automatic Narrative Generation Game” (Ono, J. & Ogata, T., 2018, IGI Global), “Toward developing a Mechanism for Automatic Narrative Generation based on a Story Generation Model of Table-top Role Playing Game” (Ono, J. & Ogata, T., 2017, Cognitive Study), and “A Design Plan of a Game System Including an Automatic Narrative Generation Mechanism: The Entire Structure and the World Settings” (Ono, J. & Ogata, T., 2016, Journal of Robotics, Networking and Artificial Life). His research interest includes narrative generation system, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, natural language processing, narratology, advertisement generation, rhetoric of surprise, and digital game and TRPG.