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Faceless Patrons – An Augmented Installation Exploring 419-Fictional Narratives

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Interactive Storytelling (ICIDS 2013)

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’Faceless patrons’ is an installation that documents stories used by Internet scammers in so called ’overpayment check scams’. Scammers use scripted stories to reach their victims, yet when correspondence continues story worlds start to evolve. We created a virtual character to interact with scammers who posed to be art buyers. The installation presents five of these interactive narratives in form of a series of photos each coupled with a forged check. By using smartphones or a tablet an augmented reality layer can be accessed to expose further story elements.

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  1. University of Art and Design, Linz, Austria

    Andreas Zingerle

  2. Kairus.org - Art+Research, Linz, Austria

    Linda Kronman

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  1. Department of Telecommunications, University of Georg, 30602, Athens, GA, USA

    Hartmut Koenitz

  2. Faculty of Communications, Istanbul Bilgi University, Eyub, 34060, Istanbul, Turkey

    Tonguc Ibrahim Sezen

  3. School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, 47405, Bloomington, IN, USA

    Gabriele Ferri

  4. School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

    Mads Haahr

  5. Faculty of Communications, Istanbul University, Beyazit, 34452, Istanbul, Turkey

    Digdem Sezen

  6. Bahc̨es̨ehir University, Karaköy, 34425, Istanbul, Turkey

    Güven C̨atak

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Zingerle, A., Kronman, L. (2013). Faceless Patrons – An Augmented Installation Exploring 419-Fictional Narratives. In: Koenitz, H., Sezen, T.I., Ferri, G., Haahr, M., Sezen, D., C̨atak, G. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8230. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02756-2_30

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