Apports d’une simulation narrative pour l’acquisition de compétences sociales

Abstract

Nicolas SZILAS, Jean DUMAS, Urs RICHLE, Nicolas HABONNEAU Apports d'une simulation narrative pour l'acquisition de compétences sociales,

Effects of Higher Interactivity on the Interactive Narrative Experience: An Experimental Study

“…Both versions of the IN were written in French and based on the same story: the user plays the role of Frank, a 16-year-old teenager whose father Paul suffered a Traumatic Brain Injury and has problems with memory and behavior [10]. The IN shows the daily difficulties of Frank and his family.…”

“…Allison et al [19] found that players of DayZ considered the permanent death of their character as frustrating but also a necessary component to make the game enjoyable. In Nothing For Dinner some users identified frustration as a positive element of user experience [10]: By embodying the role of the protagonist the user can feel the frustration that comes from the inability to change the family situation despite effort in that sense, and from the difficulties of managing daily life with a person who suffered a Traumatic Brain Injury.…”

“…Such "Highly Interactive Narrative" contains at least one event that in its occurrence (if and when it happens), its content and its formulation, is the result of a calculation [3]. It includes works such as "Façade" [6,7], "Crystal Island" [8,9] or "Nothing For Dinner" (NFD) [3,10]. The latter, based on the IDension narrative engine allows to generate a series of narrative events and to offer in average 23 possibilities of action each time the user had to interact [12].…”