Developing a Writer’s Toolkit for Interactive Locative Storytelling

Packer, Heather S.; Hargood, Charlie; Howard, Yvonne; Papadopoulos, Petros; Millard, David E.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-71027-3_6

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“…We cannot completely remove the potential for discord, especially in public places and in social contexts, but we can design to maximise harmony and minimise discord -encouraging those magic moments to occur. In retrospect the guidance that emerged from StoryPlaces starts to encapsulate this idea [46], and mirrors observations made by Ritchie about wayfaring, and the importance of spatial storytelling [55].…”

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The Balance of Attention

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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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The Balance of Attention

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“…Transforming the stage version of Shelley's Heart into a locative story both literally and figuratively set in St. Peter's churchyard meant reimagining its narrative structure once again. The programmers responsible for coding the web app suggested allowing participants to follow the characters along different physical and narrative paths (Millard & Hargood, 2017;Packer, Hargood, Howard, & Papadopoulos, 2017;Jones et al, 2018). This approach meant that participants would be afforded more freedom of movement, more varied experiences and more dramatic possibilities.…”

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Reanimating Shelley’s Heart: breathing new life into locative learning with dual process design

Gyori

2019

Media Practice and Education

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Introduction: The creature awakesEnglish Literature teachers can learn a lot from Victor Frankenstein. As a central character in one of the 19 th century's most important Gothic novels, he makes for a fascinating object of study, but he is also an instructive role model. After all, like Frankenstein, anyone teaching classic texts is in the business of necromancy. Such pedagogical alchemists are tasked with breathing new life into dusty tomes written by long dead writers. They must reanimate ideas that modern readers may consider irrelevant by grafting them onto vital contemporary themes. When it came to designing the locative learning tool Shelley's Heart, this process involved stitching facts about Mary Shelley and the Romantic poets to a fictional frame tale featuring modern alter egos of these historic figures. Throughout its many iterations, this practice-led research project was fraught with uncertainty. If its disparate parts were not effectively joined together, the experiment would fail and the whole conception would collapse into a disjointed jumble. However, at 5:00PM on All Hallows' Eve, the 31 st of October 2018, the creature finally sprang to life! Figure 1. Shelley's Heart: Locative debut The night that the Shelley's Heart web app was officially launched in St. Peter's churchyard in Bournemouth, UK, over 150 people were in attendance. For two hours, these participants explored four paths weaving around the location where Mary Shelley is buried along with the heart of her husband, poet Percy Shelley. Since the official unveiling, Shelley's Heart has been freely available to the general public. It requires no downloading and can be accessed via the website

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“…Hence other approaches combine history with character-driven gaming providing visitors with exciting scavenger and treasure hunts where (virtual) characters recount the history of the place and give background information [8,12,68,77] making players experience the historical events and relive stories. There are also location-based storytelling historically inspired fictions and tours [42,54] that aim to make tourists understand the places they visit in a more interactive way than just presenting bare facts. These have showcase that neighbourhoods enriched with locally inspired mobile multimedia stories can attract tourists off the beaten tracks into less populated areas [50,58].…”

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Leveraging Transmedia storytelling to engage tourists in the understanding of the destination’s local heritage

Dionísio

Nisi

2021

Multimed Tools Appl

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Transmedia Stories are becoming an increasingly important technique for the tourism industry. They are successful tools to engage, inspire and gather audiences online and offline. In this article, we describe the design, implementation and evaluation of Fragments of Laura, a bespoke Transmedia Storytelling (TS) experience designed to involve visitors in developing knowledge and awareness about the cultural and natural heritage of Madeira Island. Fragments of Laura (FoL) is composed of two interconnected components: a Location-Aware Multimedia Story, and a Hypermedia Platform populated with locally collected testimonies and interviews. Results from the extensive evaluation of Fragments of Laura, highlights the potential of interactive multimedia, TS in particular, in engaging tourists with the destination values and community. Our contribution is twofold, on one hand we extend on the state of the art of multimedia interactive storytelling, with the description of the Fragments of Laura TS artifact. On the other hand, results from FoL evaluation highlight how the artifact impacts on the tourism experience its implications for the design of future tourism driven TS experiences.

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Developing a Writer’s Toolkit for Interactive Locative Storytelling

Cited by 19 publications

References 22 publications

The Balance of Attention

The Balance of Attention

Reanimating Shelley’s Heart: breathing new life into locative learning with dual process design

Leveraging Transmedia storytelling to engage tourists in the understanding of the destination’s local heritage

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