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Motivations for Rereading in Interactive Stories: A Preliminary Investigation

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Interactive Storytelling (ICIDS 2010)

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This paper describes a preliminary investigation into the concept of rereadability in interactive stories. Through a close reading of the text-based interactive fiction Alabaster, seven possible motivations for rereading an interactive story are identified. This close reading suggests that, while there are many ways in which rereadability in interactive stories is similar to rereadability in traditional (non-interactive) fiction, there are also forms of rereadability that are unique to interactive storytelling.

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  1. Communications and New Media Programme, National University of Singapore, Singapore

    Alex Mitchell

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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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Mitchell, A. (2010). Motivations for Rereading in Interactive Stories: A Preliminary Investigation. 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_30

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