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Hooked! – Evaluating Engagement as Continuation Desire in Interactive Narratives

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Engagement in interactive experiences is a complex, multi-dimensional concept that can be determined by a variety of factors which are dependent on user preferences and media content. However, one fundamental requirement of any interactive experience is the desire to continue the experience, and this study is concerned with investigating engagement in interactive narratives by focusing on this aspect. In the present approach, engagement is described as the user’s desire to continue an activity in order to accomplish an objective while experiencing affect. In order to investigate engagement during run time, this description is used as a foundation for formulating an intrusive method and the Engagement Sampling Questionnaire. The application of the method and the questionnaire is exemplified by an investigation of continuation desire in the experiential learning scenario, “The First Person Victim”, where participants experience a non-pleasant emergent narrative concerned with being a victim of war.

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  1. Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology, Section of Medialogy, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Lautrupvang 15, 2750, Ballerup, Denmark

    Henrik Schoenau-Fog

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  1. Cognitive Science Department, Renselear Polytechnic Institute, Carnegie 311, 110 8 th Street, 12180, Troy, NY, USA

    Mei Si

  2. Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, T6G 2E8, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

    David Thue

  3. Laboratory for Human-Centered Multimedia, Instituti for Informatik, Augsburg University, Universitaetsstr. 6a, 86159, Augsburg, Germany

    Elisabeth André

  4. Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, 890 Oval Drive, 27695-8206,, Raleigh, NC, USA

    James C. Lester

  5. School of Interactive Arts and Technology ( SIAT), Simon Fraser University, V3T 0A3, Surrey, BC, Canada

    Theresa Jean Tanenbaum

  6. Electronic Arts, 4330 Sanderson Way, V5G 4X1, Burnaby, BC, Canada

    Veronica Zammitto

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Schoenau-Fog, H. (2011). Hooked! – Evaluating Engagement as Continuation Desire in Interactive Narratives. In: Si, M., Thue, D., André, E., Lester, J.C., Tanenbaum, T.J., Zammitto, V. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7069. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25289-1_24

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