Creating Interactive Adaptive Real Time Story Worlds
Abstract
This workshop aims at exploring and addressing the challenges of creating interactive adaptive real-time story worlds. Participants will through various activities create their own concept of such experiences while investigating the potential of the field. The workshop will furthermore invite for international collaborations focusing of creating novel formats for interactive adaptive real-time digital storytelling.
Keywords
Interactive digital storytelling Adaptive real-time story worlds The narrative paradox Storytelling Real-time film- and animation productionNotes
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank the Nordisk Film Foundation for supporting the VIZARTs project (VIsualiZation & Adaptive Real-Time Storytelling) and we are grateful for colleagues’ and students’ work on the project at Aalborg University. Finally, we would like to thank our partner, Samsung, who have provided equipment for many of the Interactive Digital Storytelling experiments conducted in the SMILE Lab.
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