When You Hear the Chime: Movable Books and the Dramaturgical Functions of Sound in Mixed Reality Interactive Narrative Design

Editorial: Interactive digital narratives representing complexity

“…Given the status of IND research as an interdisciplinary field of study, the questions of adequate frameworks (Koenitz and Eladhari, 2019;Koenitz, 2021), design conventions (Murray, 2011;Koenitz et al, 2018a), transhistorical approaches (Rouse and Holloway-Attaway, 2020;Holloway-Attaway and Rouse, 2022) and evaluation (Roth, 2016;Steinemann et al, 2017) are ongoing concerns. Lately, the question of ethics in the creation process (Fisher and Schoemann, 2018;Barbara et al, 2021) and of decolonialization of underlying narrative structures and other assumptions (Koenitz et al, 2018b;Silva et al, 2022) have found increased attention in part inspired by similar developments in game studies (Mukherjee, 2018;de Paula, 2021;Trammell, 2022).…”