Structuring Location-Aware Interactive Narratives for Mobile Augmented Reality

Spierling, Ulrike; Kampa, Antonia

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-12337-0_20

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“…Locative Narrative (sometimes referred to as location-aware or location-based narrative) concerns storytelling works (and the systems that support them) where the content reflects the readers location, the reader travels to locations to interact with the IDN, and/or the story is designed to be read in the context of a specific location or category of place [3]. They can take a range of forms from intelligent tour guides [6], to cultural heritage installations [7], to mixed reality interactive experiences [8], to interactive locative games [9], and educational location centric experiences [10]. While these works make use of a variety of different technologies on top of the locative narrative, from Spierling's work with augmented reality [8], or Haahr's gameplay approach [9] there are common factors that unite the medium.…”

Section: Locative Narrative and Idn Authoring Tool Researchmentioning

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“…They can take a range of forms from intelligent tour guides [6], to cultural heritage installations [7], to mixed reality interactive experiences [8], to interactive locative games [9], and educational location centric experiences [10]. While these works make use of a variety of different technologies on top of the locative narrative, from Spierling's work with augmented reality [8], or Haahr's gameplay approach [9] there are common factors that unite the medium. Readers, typically using mobile devices, travel between locations where GPS, QR codes, or some other location detection allows them to access new content on the device designed to be read, viewed, or played with in placeeither for diegetic reference (such as a tour guide specifically discussing the surroundings) or thematic relevance (such as a story designed to be read in a particular atmospheric context).…”

Section: Locative Narrative and Idn Authoring Tool Researchmentioning

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Locative Authoring: Evaluating the StoryPlaces Authoring Tool

Kitromili

Hargood²,

Millard³

et al. 2022

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Locative Narrative is a form of Interactive Digital Narrative (IDN) where the readers' location and movement are the main form of interaction. The StoryPlaces platform provides a general toolset for the creation and delivery of these location aware stories. However, while there is existing research on the reader experience with this technology, comparatively little is known about the author experience. We recruited five interactive narrative design students to participate in a usability test of the StoryPlaces pattern-based authoring tool, using observations, interviews, and analysis of their stories to understand their experience. We show that while participants superficially liked the interface of the StoryPlaces authoring tool, they had difficulty understanding the aspects that were less clearly visualised and struggled to test their creations. The patterns enabled them to add complex functionality easily but became a barrier if they wanted to deviate from them. Our findings mostly support Green's five principles of IDN authoring (on the value of visual metaphors and fast track testing), but suggests they need refinement as in application it was important to distinguish between the visualisation of different aspects of the story (location vs. logical structures), and that failure to properly visualise sometimes led to avoidance or displacement of activity rather than a drop in its quality.

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Section: Locative Narrative and Idn Authoring Tool Researchmentioning

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Section: Locative Narrative and Idn Authoring Tool Researchmentioning

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Locative Authoring: Evaluating the StoryPlaces Authoring Tool

Kitromili

Hargood²,

Millard³

et al. 2022

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…Outdoors, users visited various places along the linear narrative (Wither et al. 2010 ) or participated in the conversational storytelling by interacting with virtual characters (Spierling and Kampa 2014 ). However, most attempts have been made to provide a fragmented narrative experience in a single place (Park and Woo 2017 ) or a newly created locative storytelling based on multiple locations (Hansen et al.…”

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Spatial transition management for improving outdoor cinematic augmented reality experience of the TV show

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There have been attempts to provide new cinematic experiences by connecting TV or movie content to suitable locations through augmented reality (AR). However, few studies have suggested a method to manage breakdowns in continuity due to spatial transitions. Thus, we propose a method to manage the spatial transition that occurs when we create a TV show trajectory by mapping TV show scenes with spatiotemporal information to the real world. Our approach involved two steps. The first step is to reduce the spatial transition considering the sequence, location, and importance of TV show scenes when creating the TV show trajectory in the authoring tool. The second is to fill the spatial transition with additional TV show scenes considering sequence, importance, and user interest when providing the TV show trajectory in the mobile application. The user study results showed that reducing spatial transition increases narrative engagement by allowing participants to see important content within the trajectory. The additional content in spatial transition decreased the physical demand and effort in terms of the perceived workload, although it increased the task completion time. Integrated spatial transition management improved the overall cinematic augmented reality (CAR) experience of the TV show. Furthermore, we suggest design implications for realizing the CAR of TV shows based on our findings.

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Augmented Reality Museum’s Gaming for Digital Natives: Haunted Encounters in the Carvalhal’s Palace

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Cesário²,

Nunes³

2019

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Memories of Carvalhal's Palace -Haunted Encounters is an Augmented Reality (AR) location-based game which involves players in uncovering the mystery behind the haunted aspects of a museum premises. The game deployed at the Natural History Museum of Funchal makes use of mobile interactive AR and gaming strategies to promote the engagement of teenage visitors (digital natives) in museum experiences. Through this game, the audience embarks in a journey through the museum spaces, collecting scientific information about selected exhibits, while interacting with their tridimensional (3D) AR models. The audience's interactions with the museum exhibits are rewarded with pieces of a map, which will guide them to a hidden location, the scientific library of the museum. There participants can finally unlock the mysteries they have been summoned to solve. The game's goal stems from the fact that digital native teenagers are identified as an audience group that is often excluded from a museum's curatorial strategies [1] and as consequence, they appears to be generally disinterested in what museums might offer [2]. In this article, we present the description and rational behind Memories of Carvalhal's Palace: Haunted Encounters mobile gaming application and then discuss the results of first empirical tests performed to evaluate the usefulness and usability of the game.

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Structuring Location-Aware Interactive Narratives for Mobile Augmented Reality

Cited by 5 publications

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Locative Authoring: Evaluating the StoryPlaces Authoring Tool

Locative Authoring: Evaluating the StoryPlaces Authoring Tool

Spatial transition management for improving outdoor cinematic augmented reality experience of the TV show

Augmented Reality Museum’s Gaming for Digital Natives: Haunted Encounters in the Carvalhal’s Palace

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