Ambient Literature: Writing Probability

Dovey, Jonathan

doi:10.4324/9781315781129-14

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“…The readers' mobile phones thus offer site-responsive content that is not only created specifically for the purpose but also intended to be co-created in one's concurrent experience of the environment and awareness of on-site text such as information signs. One of the more ambitious genres in this family of mobile narratives, the genre of ambient literature (Dovey, 2015), makes the reader/listener actively interact not only with their environment through purposeful exploration but also with the structure of the narrative proper through navigating its multiplechoice features.…”

Section: Situated Embodimentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Our main focus is m-reading at its most technologically basic, that is, the reading of the traditional continuous linear text, presented either in a self-contained file or online, rather than the digital-born format of hypertext fiction that initially prompted Mangen's queries about digital reading. We realize that by constraining our focus to digitized traditional text we are merely scratching the surface of what mobile phones do for the evolution of narrative reading, from the first SMS-based novels of the early 2000s (Ito et al, 2005) and their newer relatives available through the Hooked application (Ha, 2015), to various types of site-responsive mobile storytelling (Dovey, 2015;Farman, 2014) and speed-reading apps such as Kindle's Word Runner. A closer analysis of these latter forms of reading from mobile phones falls beyond the scope of this essay for reasons of relative comparability between the print and digital phenomena under discussion, so as to secure common ground, and the hypothetical possibility of systematic empirical validation, in our dialogue with Mangen's (2008 and later) comparisons.…”

Section: Introduction: the Situation Constraintmentioning

confidence: 99%

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m-Reading: Fiction reading from mobile phones

2018

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Mobile phones are reportedly the most rapidly expanding e-reading device worldwide. However, the embodied, cognitive and affective implications of smartphone-supported fiction reading for leisure (m-reading) have yet to be investigated empirically. Revisiting the theoretical work of digitization scholar Anne Mangen, we argue that the digital reading experience is not only contingent on patterns of embodied reader–device interaction (Mangen, 2008 and later) but also embedded in the immediate environment and broader situational context. We call this the situation constraint. Its application to Mangen’s general framework enables us to identify four novel research areas, wherein m-reading should be investigated with regard to its unique affordances. The areas are reader–device affectivity, situated embodiment, attention training and long-term immersion.

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Section: Situated Embodimentmentioning

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Section: Introduction: the Situation Constraintmentioning

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m-Reading: Fiction reading from mobile phones

2018

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“…StoryPlaces is concerned with applications that are closer to interactive ction, with a focus on story and interactive structure. These locative narrative experiences have been termed locative literature' [22] or 'ambient literature' [16].…”

Section: Background On Locative Narrativementioning

confidence: 99%

The StoryPlaces Platform

Hargood

Weal

Millard

2018

Proceedings of the 29th on Hypertext and Social Media

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Locative narrative systems have been a popular area of research for nearly two decades, but they are often bespoke systems, developed for particular deployments, or to demonstrate novel technologies. This has meant that they are shortlived, the narratives have been constructed by the creators of the system, and that the barrier to creating locative experiences has remained high due to a lack of common tools. We set out to create a platform based on the commonalities of these historic systems, with a focus on hypertext structure, and designed to enable locative based narratives to be created, deployed, and experienced in-the-wild. The result is StoryPlaces, an open source locative hypertext platform and authoring tool designed around a sculptural hypertext engine and built with existing Web technologies. As well as providing an open platform for future development, StoryPlaces also o ers novelty in its management of location, including the separation of location and nodes, of descriptions from locations, and of content from pages, as well as being designed to have run-time caching and disconnection resilience. It also advances the state of the art in sculptural hypertext systems delivery through conditional functions, and nested, geographic and temporal conditions. The StoryPlaces platform has been used for the public deployment of over twenty locative narratives, and demonstrates the e ectiveness of a general platform for delivering complex locative narrative experiences. In this paper we describe the process of creating the platform and our insights on the design of locative hypertext platforms.

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“…Mixed reality systems, where digital technology is integrated with real world experiences, have been identified as an important way in which the public may experience cultural heritage -from digital tours [14] to 3D reconstructions of lost treasures and ruined sites [10]. Locative storytelling (also called locative literature [35], or ambient literature [17]) is a type of mixed reality system with a focus on delivering digital content, typically via a location-aware smart device. Content might be authored to be read at a specific location, and may require another to be read before it is shown.…”

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The Balance of Attention

Millard

Packer

Howard

et al. 2020

J. Comput. Cult. Herit.

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There is a long history of research exploring how augmented and mixed reality systems can be used to support visitors to cultural heritage locations, but the technological or application specific focus of much of this research means that our understanding of how these experiences work is more of a collection of insights, rather than a coherent theory about how the elements of the experience come together. There is a danger that without developing this knowledge further, our systems will be technologically complex, but experientially simplistic. In this article, we explore how one form of mixed reality experience, digital locative storytelling, can impact the experience of place, and in turn how place impacts the experience of story. We have analyzed 33 interviews, and 25 participant observations from 12 story deployments at 2 different sites. Our findings confirm that locative storytelling experiences not only impart information to readers, but also help them to rediscover familiar places and see hidden relationships—especially through time. But our findings also show how the success of the experience is reliant on the balance of attention between the virtual and real (the story and the place), and that issues with navigation, social interactions, and technology are problematic because they can disrupt this balance. Digital locative experiences therefore need to be designed carefully in order to create a balance of attention (e.g., by aligning the elements of the story with the topology and character of place). We call this a state of Loco-Narrative Harmony, in which place and story are working together and reader attention is balanced, creating an effect that is greater than the sum of its parts.

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Ambient Literature: Writing Probability

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