Exploring the experience with tangible interactive narrative: Authoring and evaluation of Letters to José

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14330%2F23%3A00130428" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14330/23:00130428 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.entcom.2022.100535" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.entcom.2022.100535</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.entcom.2022.100535" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.entcom.2022.100535</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Exploring the experience with tangible interactive narrative: Authoring and evaluation of Letters to José

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Designing tangible narratives presents interesting challenges to authors and designers, particularly those who aspire to implement tangible and multimodal design to immerse people in the narrative experience. While several models and experimental cases have been discussed before in existing literature on interactive digital narrative, most were created for screen-based narrative systems. In this article,we present Letters to José,a tangible interactive narrative system, as a design case that illustrates some of the considerations that can be applied by other authors. We introduce the authoring process of this tangible system and describe the findings of a mixed-method study that explored the unique experiences of a group of people who engaged with Letters to José. Results from this study show that tangible artifacts played an effective role in the participants’ phenomenological experience of the narrative. Drawing on our authoring experience and the study findings, we suggest that tangible interaction positively impacts the narrative experience in different ways. It strengthens the sense of agency in the interactor, and fosters their curiosity. In the meantime, tangible interaction also adds complexity to the narrative experience and might hinder the story comprehension; therefore, a balanced design is the key to a satisfactory experience. We highlight the importance of artifacts and their materiality in Tangible Narratives as elements that support the interactor’s involvement with the narrative, and facilitate the development of mental imagery and the enjoyment of the narrative experience through the physical and ludic manipulation of these artifacts. Keywords: Tangible narrative; Interactive narrative; Tangible interaction; Letters to José; Artifacts for storytelling; Narrative system

Název v anglickém jazyce

Exploring the experience with tangible interactive narrative: Authoring and evaluation of Letters to José

Popis výsledku anglicky

Designing tangible narratives presents interesting challenges to authors and designers, particularly those who aspire to implement tangible and multimodal design to immerse people in the narrative experience. While several models and experimental cases have been discussed before in existing literature on interactive digital narrative, most were created for screen-based narrative systems. In this article,we present Letters to José,a tangible interactive narrative system, as a design case that illustrates some of the considerations that can be applied by other authors. We introduce the authoring process of this tangible system and describe the findings of a mixed-method study that explored the unique experiences of a group of people who engaged with Letters to José. Results from this study show that tangible artifacts played an effective role in the participants’ phenomenological experience of the narrative. Drawing on our authoring experience and the study findings, we suggest that tangible interaction positively impacts the narrative experience in different ways. It strengthens the sense of agency in the interactor, and fosters their curiosity. In the meantime, tangible interaction also adds complexity to the narrative experience and might hinder the story comprehension; therefore, a balanced design is the key to a satisfactory experience. We highlight the importance of artifacts and their materiality in Tangible Narratives as elements that support the interactor’s involvement with the narrative, and facilitate the development of mental imagery and the enjoyment of the narrative experience through the physical and ludic manipulation of these artifacts. Keywords: Tangible narrative; Interactive narrative; Tangible interaction; Letters to José; Artifacts for storytelling; Narrative system

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

10200 - Computer and information sciences

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2023

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

ENTERTAINMENT COMPUTING

ISSN

1875-9521

e-ISSN

1875-953X

Svazek periodika

44

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

100535

Stát vydavatele periodika

NL - Nizozemsko

Počet stran výsledku

18

Strana od-do

1-18

Kód UT WoS článku

000884744000001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85141246077