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An Integrated and Iterative Research Direction for Interactive Digital Narrative

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Interactive Storytelling (ICIDS 2016)

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This paper outlines a roadmap for interactive narrative research that integrates disparate parts while focusing on identifying and experimentally verifying IDN design conventions and on developing a pedagogy to further the development of a professional discipline of IDN creators. This effort connects several key areas, in which the authors have worked before and which are now brought together. These include a specific theory, an approach towards interactive narrative design and its evaluation, an expanded understanding of the manifestations constituting the field, the pedagogy of educating creators of IDN artifacts and a perspective on the cultural significance of these creative expressions as tools to represent complexity.

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    Hartmut Koenitz, Teun Dubbelman, Noam Knoller & Christian Roth

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Koenitz, H., Dubbelman, T., Knoller, N., Roth, C. (2016). An Integrated and Iterative Research Direction for Interactive Digital Narrative. In: Nack, F., Gordon, A. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10045. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48279-8_5

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