Handbook on Interactive Storytelling

Smed, Jouni; Suovuo, Tomi “bgt”; Skult, Natasha; Skult, Petter

doi:10.1002/9781119688167

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“…Dramatic agency refers to the sense of control over the outcome of the story and occurs when users are given the ability to intentionally influence aspects of storytelling [45,54]. Due to the procedural nature of digital media, designing narratives for VR involves authoring characters, worlds, and events, as well as a range of narrative possibilities and the ways these possibilities respond to user actions [13].…”

Section: Dramatic Agencymentioning

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Ludic and Narrative Immersion in Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy to Animal Phobias: A Systematic Literature Review

Martins,

Vairinhos

2023

Virtual Worlds

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In the context of therapeutic exposure to phobias, virtual reality (VR) offers innovative ways to motivate patients to confront their fears, an opportunity not feasible in traditional non-digital settings. This systematic literature review explores the utilization of narratives and digital games in this context, focusing on identifying the most common ludic and narrative immersion features employed in studies dedicated to animal phobias. Via a search on the Scopus and Web of Science scientific databases, twenty-nine studies were selected for in-depth analysis. The primary objective was to evaluate the presence of ludic and narrative elements in each study to understand their immersive potential across both dimensions. Findings suggest that ludic elements are more commonly used than narrative elements, which are notably scarce, and the exploration of the emotional dimension of narrative immersion is limited. An essential takeaway is that features fostering narrative immersion are invariably linked to the ludic dimension, often functioning as secondary components. This study provides a guiding framework for developing therapeutic interventions in VR, emphasizing the incorporation of ludic and narrative aspects. Additionally, it identifies untapped research opportunities, particularly the integration of autonomous narratives that are less reliant on ludic elements.

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Section: Dramatic Agencymentioning

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Ludic and Narrative Immersion in Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy to Animal Phobias: A Systematic Literature Review

Martins,

Vairinhos

2023

Virtual Worlds

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“…This is because it is configured in the e-literary evolution as Pisarski (2017) observes authors as sellers of their auctorial rights to the algorithms and the bots. SMED et al, 2021). This interactivity with the bot exposes both the author-programmer's and the bot's quiddities and idiosyncrasies to influence the role of the reader using keyboard and screen to display a lexia.…”

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E-literary creativity on the dark web: Covid-19 Whatsapp bot’s interactive storytelling in WhatsApperature

Waliya

2022

TEXTO DIGITAL

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Social media affordances prioritize automatic interactive digital narrative about the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic to counteract misinformation and fake news in Nigeria. To engage the public about their health risk, WhatsApp chatbot was launched by Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in collaboration with UNICEF on the U-Report platform. It is the first Nigerian multilingual SMS-based interactive chatbot to run on all mobile telecommunication networks (the dark web), WhatsApp and Facebook Messengers to address health issues. This essay describes SMS-Chatbot which offers narratives to counter health misinformation in five languages-English, Pidgin, Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo. A techno-discursive analysis is presented to explain the relationship between the technotext and the wreader by employing Pedro Barbosa’s theory of wreader[1] on the extracted English version which is perceived as the digital literary practice on WhatsApp, that is, “WhatsApperature”. [1] Blend of writer and reader, coined by George Landow (professor) in English. https://www.wordsense.eu/wreader/ consulted 24/10/2021 Wreader it has been used by Pedro Barbosa in Portugal since early late 1970s (Vuillemin 1999).

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“…When thinking about the ethical dimension of interactive storytelling, we have to realize that we are focusing on what human beings are doing. We have organized this paper according to the classification by Smed et al (2021) and take each of the partakers --platform, designer, interactor and storyworld (see Fig. 2) -and look at them from this perspective one by one.…”

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“…The difference between interactive storytelling and conventional, non-interactive storytelling is easiest to understand with the spectrum of interactivity illustrated in Fig. 1 (Smed et al, 2021). Let us imagine that we have a range -a spectrum -where on the lefthand side we have no interactivity but we are passive receivers who cannot affect anything.…”

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Ethics of Interactive Storytelling

Hyrynsalmi

Kimppa

Smed

2021

International Series on Computer Entertainment and Media Technology

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When used in its best way, interactive storytelling has the power to create unique, adaptive and unforgettable stories for an interactor. However, the same mechanisms that are able to create elements of surprise and joy can be used to construct ethically questionable and even malevolent experiences. As the creators are often held responsible for their work and their consequences, whether these are intentionally done or not, ethical consideration should be taken into account as early as possible. This chapter seeks to line out possible threats and their ethical consequences in the design and implementation of interactive stories. To approach the ethical issues at hand, we divide interactive storytelling into four key elements -designer, platform, storyworld and interactor -and review separately the ethical considerations related to them.

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Handbook on Interactive Storytelling

Cited by 11 publications

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Ludic and Narrative Immersion in Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy to Animal Phobias: A Systematic Literature Review

Ludic and Narrative Immersion in Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy to Animal Phobias: A Systematic Literature Review

E-literary creativity on the dark web: Covid-19 Whatsapp bot’s interactive storytelling in WhatsApperature

Ethics of Interactive Storytelling

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