Open Design Challenges for Interactive Emergent Narrative

Ryan, James Owen; Mateas, Michael; Wardrip‐Fruin, Noah

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-27036-4_2

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“…Agency (a term mostly used in games) is the actual level of control that players feel while in the game world [35,2]. Multiplayer Interactive Narrative Experiences (MINEs) are interactive authored narratives in which multiple players experience distinct narratives (multiplayer differentiability) and their actions influence the storylines of both themselves and others (inter-player agency) [36].…”

Section: Ds Modulementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Humans can really benefit from their own stories, mentally and emotionally, and after all these years, we still learn and improve on telling stories [1]. Narratologists agree that to constitute a narrative, a text must tell a story, exist in a world, be situated in time, include intelligent agents, and have some form of a causal chain of events, while also it usually seeks to convey something meaningful to an audience [2].…”

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Tangible and Personalized DS Application Approach in Cultural Heritage: The CHATS Project

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Storytelling is widely used to project cultural elements and engage people emotionally. Digital storytelling enhances the process by integrating images, music, narrative, and voice along with traditional storytelling methods. Newer visualization technologies such as Augmented Reality allow more vivid representations and further influence the way museums present their narratives. Cultural institutions aim towards integrating such technologies in order to provide a more engaging experience, which is also tailored to the user by exploiting personalization and context-awareness. This paper presents CHATS, a system for personalized digital storytelling in cultural heritage sites. Storytelling is based on a tangible interface, which adds a gamification aspect and improves interactivity for people with visual impairment. Technologies of AR and Smart Glasses are used to enhance visitors’ experience. To test CHATS, a case study was implemented and evaluated.

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Section: Ds Modulementioning

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Tangible and Personalized DS Application Approach in Cultural Heritage: The CHATS Project

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“…Ryan et al [33] listed four key challenges for interactive emergent narrative: modular content, compositional representational strategies, story recognition, and story support. These challenges also affect dynamic music composition and can all be assisted by effective knowledge organisation.…”

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Adaptive Music Composition for Games

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McCormack

2020

IEEE Trans. Games

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The generation of music that adapts dynamically to content and actions has an important role in building more immersive, memorable and emotive game experiences. To date, the development of adaptive music systems for video games is limited by both the nature of algorithms used for real-time music generation and the limited modelling of player action, game world context and emotion in current games. We propose that these issues must be addressed in tandem for the quality and flexibility of adaptive game music to significantly improve. Cognitive models of knowledge organisation and emotional affect are integrated with multi-modal, multi-agent composition techniques to produce a novel Adaptive Music System (AMS). The system is integrated into two stylistically distinct games. Gamers reported an overall higher immersion and correlation of music with game-world concepts with the AMS than with the original game soundtracks in both games.

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“…The potentials and challenges with emergent and interactive narratives are explored in other recent studies such as Ryan, Mateas, and Wardrip-Fruin (2015), Estupiñán and Szilas (2019) and Gjøl, Jørgensen, and Bruni (2019). These studies approach the analysis of different aspects of interactive or emergent narratives in a digital or game realm to understand user engagement, narrative potentials and challenges.…”

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How to design for exploration through emergent narratives

2020

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This paper presents emergent narratives from theory on game design as a model for designing cultural heritage exhibitions and discusses how criteria of emergent narratives can support exploratory user behaviour. We propose that emergent narratives can be transferred to the design of interactive digital exhibitions, thereby removing constraints and allow for more personalized and potentially structure-breaking user experiences. Whereas exhibition design often either focuses on form or content, we propose that by designing for exploration through criteria of emergent narratives, a balance can be found between content and form that encourages explorative behaviour in the exhibition. This adds to the discourse of design principles for using principles from closed digital environments, such as games, in open physical spaces of exhibitions. This paper answers the research question of how theory of emergent narratives can be used to design for exploration.

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Open Design Challenges for Interactive Emergent Narrative

Cited by 36 publications

References 36 publications

Tangible and Personalized DS Application Approach in Cultural Heritage: The CHATS Project

Tangible and Personalized DS Application Approach in Cultural Heritage: The CHATS Project

Adaptive Music Composition for Games

How to design for exploration through emergent narratives

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