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.
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.