Play and Story-Telling in Institutions

Research in Interactive Drama Environments, Role-Play and Story-Telling

This paper gives an overview of the UK network RIDERS – Research in Interactive Drama Environments, Role-Play and Story-telling, running for 36 months from September 2011. It discusses the three central themes of RIDERS: theoretical work on the conflict between interactivity and narrative content, problems, issues and tools relating to authoring, and directions in evaluation. It gives a brief o...

Narrative and story telling Chair :

This paper will describe technical developments within the Kidstory project aimed at moving the technology used within schools to aid the acquisition of storytelling skills in young children away from the model of one or two children sitting in front of a monitor. We are aiming towards scenarios of larger groups interacting naturally with responsive objects that hide the manner in which they co...

Telling a story

The genre of storytelling in the form of case studies is an effective way of teaching and learning. Contemporary research on the case method is absent in the academic discipline of communication. This issue needs to be addressed and research on the effectiveness of the case method needs to be done in the academic area of communication. This paper discusses the reasons behind the popularity of t...

Story-Telling in Virtual Environments

This paper discusses the conceptual background of a research project which aims at investigating how theories on autobiographical memory can be applied to a virtual environment, e.g. Brightown, and how such an approach could 1) create an interesting virtual environment which 2) meets the cognitive needs of its users and their way of representing, encoding and reconstructing memories in terms of...

Analyzing Narratives and Story-Telling