Other Worlds. When Worldbuilding and Roleplay Feed Speculation

Mariani, Ilaria

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-49760-6_34

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“…Notions from narrativity, game studies and the above-mentioned sociological theories are jointly put at use, starting from being engaged in a fictional world separated from reality to building effective communication strategies. Indulging in a play of make-believe is a powerful way to turn the user's attention to the fictional world as a secondary world (Wolf 2012), reducing the attention on the primary world (Mariani 2020). In the frame of the secondary world, where the fictitious makes sense, possibilities of any kind can be explored.…”

Section: Domain 1: Communication For Social Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Design for Narrative Change. A Pedagogical Model for Interactive Digital Narratives

Mariani

Ciancia

2023

Int J Art Design Ed

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Narratives mirror shared interpretations of the world. Still, dominant narratives prevail, pushing non‐hegemonic narratives in the corner. A change in the creation, interaction and distribution of narratives can support the design of counter‐narratives able to feed social change. Interactive Digital Narrative (IDN) can be considered an emerging experimental context in which designers, researchers and practitioners from various domains operate to develop story‐based content addressing relevant social or societal issues. The IDN social constructivist role in encouraging or influencing individuals and collectivities towards social change is a relevant design issue especially from an educational perspective. Specifically, it features methodologies and praxis not yet systematised, in need of exploration and formalisation. Recognising the contribution of an approach combining transdisciplinary methods and tools, the article presents a pedagogical model for designing IDNs as complex interactive systems able to impact culture and society based on empirical study from a design course in the higher education context. Composed of theoretical and operational frameworks, the pedagogical model orients the multilayered design process for building engaging, interactive narrative artefacts systematising and operationalising knowledge from the domains of Communication for Social Change, storytelling and IDN in an iterative design process.

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Section: Domain 1: Communication For Social Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Design for Narrative Change. A Pedagogical Model for Interactive Digital Narratives

Mariani

Ciancia

2023

Int J Art Design Ed

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“…Examination of the literature reveals the importance of enabling participants to fully engage with the context presented in the role-play, by making it immersive or as realistic as possible, in order to elicit genuine responses from them. This is exemplified in Mariani (2020) paper, “Other Worlds. When Worldbuilding and Roleplay Feed Speculation,” which highlights the aspects of games that make them well suited for the exploration of alternative circumstances from an HCI perspective.…”

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Role-Play as Responsible Robotics: The Virtual Witness Testimony Role-Play Interview for Investigating Hazardous Human-Robot Interactions

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The development of responsible robotics requires paying attention to responsibility within the research process in addition to responsibility as the outcome of research. This paper describes the preparation and application of a novel method to explore hazardous human-robot interactions. The Virtual Witness Testimony role-play interview is an approach that enables participants to engage with scenarios in which a human being comes to physical harm whilst a robot is present and may have had a malfunction. Participants decide what actions they would take in the scenario and are encouraged to provide their observations and speculations on what happened. Data collection takes place online, a format that provides convenience as well as a safe space for participants to role play a hazardous encounter with minimal risk of suffering discomfort or distress. We provide a detailed account of how our initial set of Virtual Witness Testimony role-play interviews were conducted and describe the ways in which it proved to be an efficient approach that generated useful findings, and upheld our project commitments to Responsible Research and Innovation. We argue that the Virtual Witness Testimony role-play interview is a flexible and fruitful method that can be adapted to benefit research in human robot interaction and advance responsibility in robotics.

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Other Worlds. When Worldbuilding and Roleplay Feed Speculation

Cited by 2 publications

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Design for Narrative Change. A Pedagogical Model for Interactive Digital Narratives

Design for Narrative Change. A Pedagogical Model for Interactive Digital Narratives

Role-Play as Responsible Robotics: The Virtual Witness Testimony Role-Play Interview for Investigating Hazardous Human-Robot Interactions

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