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.
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 language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Interactive Storytelling |
| Subtitle of host publication | 12th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2019 |
| Editors | Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera, Anne Sullivan, R. Michael Young |
| Place of Publication | Cham |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Pages | 158-169 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9783030338947 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783030338930 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Nov 2019 |
Keywords
- narrative complexity
- interactive documentary
- interactive digital narrative
- user experience evaluation