Letters to José: A Design Case for Building Tangible Interactive Narratives

Echeverri, Daniel; Wei, Huaxin

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-62516-0_2

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“…The need to develop models and guidelines that inform the design of interactive artefacts for children has already been voiced by Read and Markopoulos (2013). Research in Interactive Digital Narratives has also concluded that working prototypes of tangible stories are few, and that there is a need for updated theoretical discussion on newer forms of interactive narrative construction (Echeverri and Wei, 2020).…”

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Narrating by Doing: A Bridging Concept for Understanding and Informing the Design of Tangible Interfaces for Storytelling

Sylla

Gil

Pereira

2021

Interacting With Computers

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We present and discuss the concept ‘narrating by doing’ as the process of creating narratives by performing different embodied actions with tangible interfaces for storytelling. We characterize it as a ‘bridging concept’ that can facilitate exchange between theory and design, informing research and design of TUIs for storytelling targeting young children. The concept builds on theories of cognition, learning and narration, specifically drawing upon the following perspectives: Constructionism, Socio-Constructivism, Embodied Cognition, Narratology and The Narrative Practice Hypothesis. Building upon these theoretical foundations, we identify and discuss four ‘design articulations’ (i.e. important parameters that express the qualities of the concept), namely communicative situation, narrative function of the tangible objects, collaborative and embodied actions and the narrator’s position. Finally, we add evidence to the concept and discuss its productiveness by presenting a set of considerations to inform the design of tangible interfaces for storytelling.

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Narrating by Doing: A Bridging Concept for Understanding and Informing the Design of Tangible Interfaces for Storytelling

Sylla

Gil

Pereira

2021

Interacting With Computers

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“…Interactions are not limited to taking place through digital interfaces, even in video games. Echeverri and Wei's (2020) hybrid interactive story, Letters to José, is based on the correspondence of two Colombian brothers, presented in the form of fragmented life events between 1948 and 1957. The designers assigned artifacts and objects to the decision points in the narrative, which were presented in digital and physical form.…”

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confidence: 99%

Digital media and storytelling in higher education

Lanszki¹

2022

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Anita Lanszki's book is about storytelling in the digital media environment. The enterprise is both classical in that it explores the nature of storytelling, which is found in all historical periods and human communities, and modern in that it undertakes a broad overview of contemporary digital culture from the perspective of storytelling. The book is also a methodological guide, illustrated with numerous examples, which has emerged organically from the author's many years of teaching experience. Although the title reflects a focus on the use of digital storytelling in various fields of higher education and research, this excellent work can also be used by professionals working in other spheres of education. Whatever our views on the digital space and age may be, we can probably all agree that we are witnessing a democratization of storytelling in our time. The insights in this book are therefore extremely useful for anyone who is interested in how the timeless practice of storytelling is adapting to the new media environment.

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“…In this context, researchers and practitioners, at the crossroad between IDN, narratology and HCI, have described and designed computer-mediated narrative experiences by integrating formal and structural theories [28]. Research in Interactive Digital Narratives has also called out the need for updated theoretical discussion on newer forms of interactive narrative construction [29].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%