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Authors:
Joaquim Colas
Alan Tapscott
Ayman Moghnieh
Josep Blat
Keywords: shared narratives; information systems; user experience; multi-authored composition; storylines; consistency
Abstract:
Through ages, storytelling has been used as one of the main ways for sharing knowledge. We envision the use of shared narrative spaces as a new kind of media that empowers the collaborative creation of vast narrative worlds. We identified existing information systems related to storytelling, and evaluated how they support multi-authored non-linear narratives. A pilot experiment was conducted to understand the user interaction model with shared narratives more profoundly, and we extracted the main interaction factors observed: the different modes of interaction performed towards the informative space, the exploration of a non-linear medium through linear storylines, and the preservation of literary consistency. This model was later transduced into a set of design implications for collaborative narrative systems, which were used as a premise for designing a prototypical tool called CrossTale. Finally, we conducted two experiments to evaluate CrossTale’s interaction model and user experience. We discuss how the results of these experiments show that shared narratives have the potential of becoming a distinct type of interactive medium supporting a new genre of user experience.
Pages: 12 to 23
Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2013. Used with permission.
Publication date: June 30, 2013
Published in: journal
ISSN: 1942-2601