Locative Authoring: Evaluating the StoryPlaces Authoring Tool
Authors: Kitromili, S., Hargood, C., Millard, D., Zhao, H. and Pope, J.
Journal: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume: 13762 LNCS
Pages: 483-498
eISSN: 1611-3349
ISBN: 9783031222979
ISSN: 0302-9743
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-22298-6_31
Abstract:Locative Narrative is a form of Interactive Digital Narrative (IDN) where the readers’ location and movement are the main form of interaction. The StoryPlaces platform provides a general toolset for the creation and delivery of these location aware stories. However, while there is existing research on the reader experience with this technology, comparatively little is known about the author experience. We recruited five interactive narrative design students to participate in a usability test of the StoryPlaces pattern-based authoring tool, using observations, interviews, and analysis of their stories to understand their experience. We show that while participants superficially liked the interface of the StoryPlaces authoring tool, they had difficulty understanding the aspects that were less clearly visualised and struggled to test their creations. The patterns enabled them to add complex functionality easily but became a barrier if they wanted to deviate from them. Our findings mostly support Green’s five principles of IDN authoring (on the value of visual metaphors and fast track testing), but suggests they need refinement as in application it was important to distinguish between the visualisation of different aspects of the story (location vs. logical structures), and that failure to properly visualise sometimes led to avoidance or displacement of activity rather than a drop in its quality.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/37722/
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Locative Authoring: Evaluating the StoryPlaces Authoring Tool
Authors: Kitromili, S., Hargood, C., Millard, D., Zhao, H. and Pope, J.
Journal: INTERACTIVE STORYTELLING, ICIDS 2022
Volume: 13762
Pages: 483-498
eISSN: 1611-3349
ISBN: 978-3-031-22297-9
ISSN: 0302-9743
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-22298-6_31
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/37722/
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Locative Authoring: Evaluating the StoryPlaces Authoring Tool
Authors: Kitromili, S., Hargood, C., Millard, D., Zhao, H. and Pope, J.
Conference: International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling 2022
Dates: 4-7 December 2022
Abstract:Locative Narrative is a form of Interactive Digital Narrative (IDN) where the readers’ location and movement are the main form of interaction. The StoryPlaces platform provides a general toolset for the creation and delivery of these location aware stories. However, while there is existing research on the reader experience with this technology, comparatively little is known about the author experience. We recruited five interactive narrative design students to participate in a usability test of the StoryPlaces pattern-based authoring tool, using observations, interviews, and analysis of their stories to understand their experience. We show that while participants superficially liked the interface of the StoryPlaces authoring tool, they had difficulty understanding the aspects that were less clearly visualised and struggled to test their creations. The patterns enabled them to add complex functionality easily but became a barrier if they wanted to deviate from them. Our findings mostly support Green’s five principles of IDN authoring (on the value of visual metaphors and fast track testing), but suggests they need refinement as in application it was important to distinguish between the visualisation of different aspects of the story (location vs. logical structures), and that failure to properly visualise sometimes led to avoidance or displacement of activity rather than a drop in its quality.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/37722/
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Locative Authoring: Evaluating the StoryPlaces Authoring Tool
Authors: Kitromili, S., Hargood, C., Millard, D., Zhao, H. and Pope, J.
Conference: ICIDS 2022: International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling
Abstract:Locative Narrative is a form of Interactive Digital Narrative (IDN) where the readers’ location and movement are the main form of interaction. The StoryPlaces platform provides a general toolset for the creation and delivery of these location aware stories. However, while there is existing research on the reader experience with this technology, comparatively little is known about the author experience. We recruited five interactive narrative design students to participate in a usability test of the StoryPlaces pattern-based authoring tool, using observations, interviews, and analysis of their stories to understand their experience. We show that while participants superficially liked the interface of the StoryPlaces authoring tool, they had difficulty understanding the aspects that were less clearly visualised and struggled to test their creations. The patterns enabled them to add complex functionality easily but became a barrier if they wanted to deviate from them. Our findings mostly support Green’s five principles of IDN authoring (on the value of visual metaphors and fast track testing), but suggests they need refinement as in application it was important to distinguish between the visualisation of different aspects of the story (location vs. logical structures), and that failure to properly visualise sometimes led to avoidance or displacement of activity rather than a drop in its quality.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/37722/
https://icids2022.ardin.online/
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