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Textual vs. Graphical Interaction in an Interactive Fiction Game

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Interactive Storytelling (ICIDS 2010)

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In this paper, we present a preliminary evaluation of a text-based and graphical version of an interactive fiction game that we created to look at how the user experience varies across the different mediums and modalities.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Cognitive Computing Lab, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332-0760, USA

    Manish Mehta

  2. IFKI, University of Southern Denmark, 6000, Kolding, Denmark

    Andrea Corradini

  3. Spanish National Research Council, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC), 08193, Bellaterra, Spain

    Santiago Ontañón

  4. Copenhagen Business School, ISV, 2000, Frederiksberg, Denmark

    Peter Juel Henrichsen

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  1. School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot Watt University, EH14 4AS, Edinburgh, UK

    Ruth Aylett

  2. School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot Watt University, EH14 4AS, Edinburgh, UK

    Mei Yii Lim

  3. School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, EH 14 4AS, Edinburgh, UK

    Sandy Louchart

  4. Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Freyung 6/6, 1010, Vienna, Austria

    Paolo Petta

  5. School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 85 Fifth Street NW, 30308, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Mark Riedl

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Mehta, M., Corradini, A., Ontañón, S., Henrichsen, P.J. (2010). Textual vs. Graphical Interaction in an Interactive Fiction Game. In: Aylett, R., Lim, M.Y., Louchart, S., Petta, P., Riedl, M. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6432. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16638-9_29

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