NHT '12Pub Date : 2012-06-25DOI: 10.1145/2310076.2310080
C. Hargood, Michael O. Jewell, D. Millard
{"title":"The narrative braid: a model for tackling the narrative paradox in adaptive documentaries","authors":"C. Hargood, Michael O. Jewell, D. Millard","doi":"10.1145/2310076.2310080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2310076.2310080","url":null,"abstract":"The Narrative Paradox is a theory that describes interaction and narrative cohesion as being in tension, and asserts that the structure of a narrative is disrupted by user adaptivity, leading to possible incoherence as the system accounts for interaction. We propose an approach that may reduce this disruption. Specifically, we propose to model a narrative as a collection of threads, woven together into the final discourse as a narrative braid. By separately maintaining logical coherence within a thread and thematic coherence between threads we believe it is possible to introduce interactivity while maintaining a strong narrative structure. We discuss how this may be applied to adaptive documentaries which, with a wide base of recorded material and diverse plot threads, provide a rich medium for initial experimentation in this area.","PeriodicalId":445399,"journal":{"name":"NHT '12","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114577806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NHT '12Pub Date : 2012-06-25DOI: 10.1145/2310076.2310081
A. Mitchell, K. McGee
{"title":"The HypeDyn hypertext fiction authoring tool","authors":"A. Mitchell, K. McGee","doi":"10.1145/2310076.2310081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2310076.2310081","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we describe the HypeDyn procedural hypertext fiction authoring tool. HypeDyn supports visual authoring of adaptive hypertext fiction in which links and nodes may be varied procedurally as the result of past reader actions. This allows for the creation of procedural stories which are much more flexible and adaptive than traditional hypertext. HypeDyn was initially created as a teaching tool, and has been used since 2009 in an interactive storytelling class in the Department of Communications and New Media at the National University of Singapore. It has also been used as a tool for research, providing a flexible platform for the exploration of issues of procedural change and rereadability in interactive stories. Our experiences with HypeDyn suggest that hypertext constitutes a valuable paradigm within which to explore issues relevant to interactive storytelling in general.","PeriodicalId":445399,"journal":{"name":"NHT '12","volume":"110 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124083635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NHT '12Pub Date : 2012-06-25DOI: 10.1145/2310076.2310083
C. Baldwin, C. Hill
{"title":"Hypertext as an expression of the rhizomatic self","authors":"C. Baldwin, C. Hill","doi":"10.1145/2310076.2310083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2310076.2310083","url":null,"abstract":"Developments in the philosophical and social science literature around narrative and identity are seeing the emergence of an understanding of the Self as rhizomatic. Rhizomatics in narrative form can be conceptualized as hypertext. In this position paper, we aim, from a social work perspective, to lay out some of the strengths of conceptualizing the self through a rhizomatic hypertextual narrative, helping to resolve the agency/structure problems we find in the literature on the dialogical self by accounting for context, accounting for multiplicity, providing a metaphor for distant and proximal memory, and allowing for shared nodes where individual lines of flight cross.","PeriodicalId":445399,"journal":{"name":"NHT '12","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123279476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NHT '12Pub Date : 2012-06-25DOI: 10.1145/2310076.2310079
Heather S. Packer, Ashley Smith, P. Lewis
{"title":"MemoryBook: generating narratives from lifelogs","authors":"Heather S. Packer, Ashley Smith, P. Lewis","doi":"10.1145/2310076.2310079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2310076.2310079","url":null,"abstract":"Automatic capture of life logging data can be extremely information rich, large and varied. Extracting a narrative from this data can be difficult because not all of the data is conducive to producing interesting narratives. Life logging data can be enriched by linking to the Semantic Web and narratives can be enriched with data extracted from Semantic Web knowledge stores. In this paper, we present MemoryBook which is a web interface that automatically generates narratives from life logging data in RDF form and from Semantic Web knowledge stores, and highlights maps and images which are associated with events in the narrative.","PeriodicalId":445399,"journal":{"name":"NHT '12","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114883582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NHT '12Pub Date : 2012-06-25DOI: 10.1145/2310076.2310078
Matthew G. Styles, S. Jung, Chihiro Eto, Geoffrey M. Draper
{"title":"An approach to hypertext fiction for mobile devices","authors":"Matthew G. Styles, S. Jung, Chihiro Eto, Geoffrey M. Draper","doi":"10.1145/2310076.2310078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2310076.2310078","url":null,"abstract":"Electronic literature has seen an explosion in popularity in recent years, due largely to the wide availability of smartphones, tablets, and dedicated e-reader devices. Somewhat surprisingly, mobile computing has been slow to embrace hypertext fiction. Yet the same qualities that make handheld devices popular for traditional linear narratives --- small size, ease of use, and near ubiquity --- also make them ideally suited for the distribution and consumption of hypertext narratives. In this paper, we review some existing systems for reading hypertext literature on mobile devices, and introduce Jarnaby Reader, a prototype e-reader for hypertext narratives that supports automatically generated overhead maps.","PeriodicalId":445399,"journal":{"name":"NHT '12","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133960403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NHT '12Pub Date : 2012-06-25DOI: 10.1145/2310076.2310086
Stacey Mason
{"title":"Glitched lit: possibilities for databending literature","authors":"Stacey Mason","doi":"10.1145/2310076.2310086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2310076.2310086","url":null,"abstract":"As our attitude toward technology has fluctuated between viewing it as either a benevolent aid or a dangerous threat, the arts have responded with various ways of expressing this anxiety. Glitch art confronts this technological anxiety, and continues the modernist and postmodernist fascination with representation and medium. An extension of remix culture, intentional glitching---or databending---presents an interesting new form for combining narrative and visual art.","PeriodicalId":445399,"journal":{"name":"NHT '12","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124610396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NHT '12Pub Date : 2012-06-25DOI: 10.1145/2310076.2310085
A. Canavan
{"title":"We interrupt this broadcast: highly reliable narrators in radio drama","authors":"A. Canavan","doi":"10.1145/2310076.2310085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2310076.2310085","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a theory of highly reliable narration through the examples of 1930s and 1940s radio broadcasts. Compared to the unreliable narrator, which opens interpretive possibilities, the highly reliable narrator limits the conclusions that the reader/listener may arrive at. The highly reliable narrator may receive additional credibility through internal means (sharing confidences with the reader, etc) or external means (education, experience, etc).","PeriodicalId":445399,"journal":{"name":"NHT '12","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125709165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
NHT '12Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1145/2310076.2310084
M. Bernstein, Stacey Mason
{"title":"Gothic","authors":"M. Bernstein, Stacey Mason","doi":"10.1145/2310076.2310084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2310076.2310084","url":null,"abstract":"A kindergarten chat [42] about the digital gothic, Kolb's story/story [16], fractal hypertext [13], and some very thin (and unemployed) characters.","PeriodicalId":445399,"journal":{"name":"NHT '12","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132039028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}