The Potential of Interactive Digital Narratives. Agency and Multiple Perspectives in Last Hijack Interactive

Renske van Enschot*, Iris Boogaard, Hartmut Koenitz, Christian Roth

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    Abstract

    Interactive Digital Narratives (IDN) have the capacity to represent
    multiple, even competing perspectives and to allow audiences to change
    between them. Such meaningful changes have been defined as agency by
    Murray [1] transforming the audience into interactors. These experiential
    qualities of interactive digital narrative (IDN) define the potential of the form to
    improve the representation and understanding of complex topics. In this paper,
    we present an initial study designed to evaluate this potential of IDN by means
    of the complex topic of piracy in the region of Somalia. To this end, we ran an
    experiment comparing interactive and non-interactive versions of Last Hijack
    Interactive, an award-winning Dutch interactive documentary. With this study,
    we contribute to the establishment of an evaluation framework that can be used
    to more clearly identify the potential of IDN in terms of representing and
    understanding complexity. We discuss the results and propose next steps.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationInteractive Storytelling
    Subtitle of host publication12th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2019
    EditorsRogelio E. Cardona-Rivera, Anne Sullivan, R. Michael Young
    Place of PublicationCham
    PublisherSpringer
    Pages158-169
    Number of pages11
    ISBN (Electronic)9783030338947
    ISBN (Print)9783030338930
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Nov 2019

    Keywords

    • narrative complexity
    • interactive documentary
    • interactive digital narrative
    • user experience evaluation

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