Interactive Storytelling: 13th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2020, Bournemouth, UK, November 3–6, 2020, Proceedings ... incl. Internet/Web, and HCI Book 12497)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2020, held in Bournemouth, UK, in November 2020. The 15 full papers and 8 short papers presented together with 5 posters, were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. The conference offers topics in game narrative and interactive storytelling, including the theoretical, technological, and applied design practices, narrative systems, storytelling technology, and humanities-inspired theoretical inquiry, empirical research and artistic expression. Front Matter ....Pages i-xviii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 ICIDS2020 Panel: Building the Discipline of Interactive Digital Narratives (Mark Bernstein, Mirjam Palosaari Eladhari, Hartmut Koenitz, Sandy Louchart, Frank Nack, Chris Martens et al.)....Pages 3-11 Front Matter ....Pages 13-13 Letters to José: A Design Case for Building Tangible Interactive Narratives (Daniel Echeverri, Huaxin Wei)....Pages 15-29 Embedded Narratives in Procedurally Generated Environments (Thomas Lund Nielsen, Eoin Ivan Rafferty, Henrik Schoenau-Fog, George Palamas)....Pages 30-43 Crafting Interactive Narrative Games with Adversarial Planning Agents from Simulations (Chris Miller, Mayank Dighe, Chris Martens, Arnav Jhala)....Pages 44-57 A Systematic Analysis of User Experience Dimensions for Interactive Digital Narratives (Ashwathy T. Revi, David E. Millard, Stuart E. Middleton)....Pages 58-74 Digital Storytelling in a Museum Application Using the Web of Things (Mortaza Alinam, Luca Ciotoli, Frosina Koceva, Ilaria Torre)....Pages 75-82 User Testing Persuasive Interactive Web Documentaries: An Empirical Study (Nicole Basaraba, Owen Conlan, Jennifer Edmond, Peter Arnds)....Pages 83-91 Towards the Emergent Theatre: A Novel Approach for Creating Live Emergent Narratives Using Finite State Machines (Craig Paul Green, Lars Erik Holmquist, Steve Gibson)....Pages 92-101 A Novel Design Pipeline for Authoring Tools (Daniel Green, Charlie Hargood, Fred Charles)....Pages 102-110 Toward a Block-Based Programming Approach to Interactive Storytelling for Upper Elementary Students (Andy Smith, Bradford Mott, Sandra Taylor, Aleata Hubbard-Cheuoua, James Minogue, Kevin Oliver et al.)....Pages 111-119 Twine and DooM as Authoring Tools in Teaching IDN Design of LudoNarrative Dissonance (Jonathan Barbara)....Pages 120-124 A Comparison of Children’s Narrative Expressions in Enactment and Writing (Niloofar Zarei, Francis Quek, Sharon Lynn Chu, Sarah Anne Brown)....Pages 125-130 Front Matter ....Pages 131-131 GFI: A Formal Approach to Narrative Design and Game Research (Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera, José P. Zagal, Michael S. Debus)....Pages 133-148 Weird and Wonderful: How Experimental Film Narratives Can Inform Interactive Digital Narratives (Chris Hales)....Pages 149-163 “How Do I Restart This Thing?” Repeat Experience and Resistance to Closure in Rewind Storygames (Alex Mitchell, Liting Kway)....Pages 164-177 The Case for Invisibility: Understanding and Improving Agency in Black Mirror’s Bandersnatch and Other Interactive Digital Narrative Works (Anna Marie Rezk, Mads Haahr)....Pages 178-189 Dramatic Narrative Logics: Integrating Drama into Storygames with Operational Logics (Kenneth Tan, Alex Mitchell)....Pages 190-202 When the Fourth Layer Meets the Fourth Wall: The Case for Critical Game Retellings (Steven Sych)....Pages 203-211 What Might an Action do? Toward a Grounded View of Actions in Interactive Storytelling (David Thue)....Pages 212-220 Towards Gestural Specificity in Interactive Digital Literary Narratives (Serge Bouchardon)....Pages 221-225 Front Matter ....Pages 227-227 Capturing User Emotions in Interactive Stories: Comparing a Diegetic and a Non-diegetic Approach to Self-reporting Emotion (Sarah Anne Brown, Cheryl Resch, Vanessa Han, Srividya Vaishnavi Surampudi, Pratyusha Karanam, Sharon Lynn Chu)....Pages 229-242 Interpretive Play and the Player Psychology of Optimal Arousal Regulation (Matthew Higgins, Peter Howell)....Pages 243-257 The Procedural Nature of Interactive Digital Narratives and Early Literacy (Cristina Sylla, Maitê Gil)....Pages 258-270 Vim: A Tangible Energy Story (Skye Doherty, Stephen Snow, Kathleen Jennings, Ben Rose, Ben Matthews, Stephen Viller)....Pages 271-280 Tale of T(r)ails: The Design of an AR Comic Book for an Animal Welfare Transmedia (Mara Dionisio, Paulo Bala, Sarah Oliveira, Valentina Nisi)....Pages 281-284 Front Matter ....Pages 285-285 Circuits, Cycles, Configurations: An Interaction Model of Web Comics (Alessio Antonini, Sam Brooker, Francesca Benatti)....Pages 287-299 Archiving Interactive Narratives at the British Library (Lynda Clark, Giulia Carla Rossi, Stella Wisdom)....Pages 300-313 Gated Story Structure and Dramatic Agency in Sam Barlow’s Telling Lies (T. M. Gasque, Kevin Tang, Brad Rittenhouse, Janet Murray)....Pages 314-326 Magic and Immersion in VR (Ágnes Karolina Bakk)....Pages 327-331 Front Matter ....Pages 333-333 Honey, I’m Home: An Adventure Game with Procedurally Generated Narrative Puzzles (Lilian Morgan, Mads Haahr)....Pages 335-338 A Natural History Museum Experience: Memories of Carvalhal’s Palace – Turning Point (Vanessa Cesário, Sandra Olim, Valentina Nisi)....Pages 339-343 Ares 2036: Exploring the Space of Rapid Prototyping for Transformative Interactive Storytelling (Christian Roth, Julie Dacanay)....Pages 344-348 The Story Maker - An Authoring Tool for Multimedia-Rich Interactive Narratives (Ektor Vrettakis, Christos Lougiakis, Akrivi Katifori, Vassilis Kourtis, Stamatis Christoforidis, Manos Karvounis et al.)....Pages 349-352 Using Reverse Interactive Audio Systems (RIAS) to Direct Attention in Virtual Reality Narrative Practices: A Case Study (Aletta J. Steynberg)....Pages 353-356 Tell a Tail 360\(^{\circ }\): Immersive Storytelling on Animal Welfare (Paulo Bala, Mara Dionisio, Tânia Andrade, Valentina Nisi)....Pages 357-360 Digital Narrative, Documents and Interactive Public History (Tristan Revells, Yuzhu Chai)....Pages 361-364 Back Matter ....Pages 365-366