Designing Interactive Storytelling: A Virtual Environment for Personal Experience Narratives

Ladeira, Ilda and Marsden, Gary and Green, Lesley (2011) Designing Interactive Storytelling: A Virtual Environment for Personal Experience Narratives, Proceedings of Interact 2011, September 2011, Lisbon, Portugal, 6947, 430-437.

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Abstract

We describe an ongoing collaboration with the District Six Museum, in Cape Town, aimed at designing a storytelling prototype for preserving personal experience narratives. We detail the design of an interactive virtual environment (VE) which was inspired by a three month ethnography of real-life oral storytelling. The VE places the user as an audience member in a virtual group listening to two storytelling agents capable of two forms of interactivity: (1) User Questions: users can input (via typing) questions to the agent; and (2) Exchange Structures: the agent poses questions for users to answer. Preliminary results suggest an overall positive user experience, especially for exchange structures. User questions, however, appear to require improvement.

Item Type:	Conference paper
Subjects:	Human-centered computing
Date Deposited:	18 Nov 2011
Last Modified:	10 Oct 2019 15:33
URI:	http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/id/eprint/714

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