Progression Maps: Conceptualizing Narrative Structure for Interaction Design Support

Carstensdóttir, Elín; Partlan, Nathan; Sutherland, Steven C.; Duke, Tyler; Ferris, Erika; Richter, Robin M.; Valladares, Maria Jose; El-Nasr, Magy Seif

doi:10.1145/3313831.3376527

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“…For example, the desire to express a specific authorial intent calls for feedback at a lower level than UX. This is in part accomplished by visualizations such as those in Novella [35] and progression maps [40], but as complexity grows, more insightful views like sentiment networks, maps, timelines and dramatic arcs are also worth considering. Reviewing commonly applied narrative devices, formalisms, conventions and authoring practices might tell us which would be most useful.…”

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“…But these deal either with specific problems, for example structural analysis to identify dead ends or short experiences [28], or are not comprehensive in that they focus on specific aspects such as emotional experience [29]. Visualisation is an important element of mixed creation, for example [40] focuses on low level visualization of interaction design as progression maps. Similarly, [38] discusses automatic structural analysis using graph theory, and [37] suggests some low level computational metrics that show correlation with user experience dimensions.…”

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A Systematic Analysis of User Experience Dimensions for Interactive Digital Narratives

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Millard

Middleton

2020

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Providing intelligent feedback to aid authoring has been proposed as a way to speed up authoring, give the author more control, and to enable the authoring of more complex interactive narratives. However, there is little research investigating what concrete feedback items would be useful for interactive digital narrative (IDN) creators. In this paper, we discuss potentially useful feedback items in relation to authoring goals and concerns. We perform a systematic literature review to make a list of concrete feedback items of interest related to the most emphasised concern of authoring -the effect of the interactive narrative on the user. We identify 47 User Experience (UX) dimensions in the IDN literature that could serve as useful feedback items, covering 8 categories -Agency, Cognition, Immersion, Affect, Drama, Rewards, Motivation and Dissonance. This list combines and untangles how different IDN researchers have interpreted and expressed interest in the complex idea of UX in the past decade and gives us insight into what concrete aspects of UX might be useful to estimate via automated feedback.

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A Systematic Analysis of User Experience Dimensions for Interactive Digital Narratives

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Middleton

2020

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…The narrative describes a flow of activities and events during the gameplay. Several topologies describe different narratives [28,29], but they can be summed up as the linear narrative, branch narrative, quest narrative, and sandbox narrative.…”

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Framework for Using Professional Engineering Tools to Develop Games in Post-Secondary Education

Kornevs

Krishna

Orhan

2023

IJSG

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Teaching is changing with increasing emphasis on teaching digitally to enable remote learning. While it gives more opportunities to engage students, it also makes it harder to learn professional skills, which is especially important for the engineering field. One problem might be the lack of professional tools for the digital education of engineers. The purpose of this work is to assess the feasibility of creating digital educational games by shaping professional tools themselves as games for post-secondary education, and to develop a framework for such a process. This article demonstrates a case for applying the proposed framework to develop a game for a communication network course using a computer network simulator. The findings of this work highlight the need to create such games in higher education based on professional tools.

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“…Whichever the game mechanics used, the story within a GameBook branches off, chapter per chapter, following a directed graph structure where each node represents a chapter and each arc a choice available to the reader. Each story branch can be seen as an interaction point, at which the reader/player may take action and thus influence the narrative, as seen in the "Progression Maps" model developed by Carstensdottir et al [2], just like "beats" within a story.…”

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Go to Chapter X to Explore Interactive Narrative on Smart Assistants

Klopfenstein

Lorenzi

2021

Chatbot Research and Design

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Interactive fiction, the narration paradigm that allows players or readers to directly affect the branching of a story, has been the focus both of a popular genre of books (so-called GameBooks or Choose Your Own Adventure books) and of narrative experiences delivered through interactive computer programs, which includes but is not limited to many popular videogames. This paper explores book-based interactive narrative structures and tools, presenting a novel way to explore existing works of narrative fiction through the conversational audio interface of a smart assistant. The proposed solution is implemented in the form of an Amazon Alexa skill that allows users to listen to works of interactive fiction in a similar fashion to an audiobook, while also allowing them to 'choose their own adventure' expressing choices and commands using their voice. Common GameBook interaction paradigms other than basic junctures within the story are also described and presented through the smart assistant program. Results from a small-scale experiment are presented and the potential of this conversational interface for interactive spoken-word literature is discussed.

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Progression Maps: Conceptualizing Narrative Structure for Interaction Design Support

Cited by 8 publications

References 26 publications

A Systematic Analysis of User Experience Dimensions for Interactive Digital Narratives

A Systematic Analysis of User Experience Dimensions for Interactive Digital Narratives

Framework for Using Professional Engineering Tools to Develop Games in Post-Secondary Education

Go to Chapter X to Explore Interactive Narrative on Smart Assistants

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