Designing iDTV Applications through Interactive Storyboards

This paper presents an authoring tool focused on the design of interactive narratives, named ISB Designer. Based on techniques used by film and animation producers, the tool does not rule out paradigms they are used to. One of its main advantages is to allow the design of audiovisual content together with its points of adaptation and intervention, thus helping in the detection and correction of narrative inconsistencies. Another ISB Designer differential is the possibility of designing applications for presentations on multiple screens. Unlike other tools, the ISB Designer focuses on the design and prototyping phase of applications, as a means of producing higher quality interactive narratives, for then automatically generate the final application, in a post-project stage.