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How Do We Build This Thing?: Imagining Frameworks for Personal Narratives

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Virtual Storytelling. Using Virtual Reality Technologies for Storytelling (ICVS 2005)

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In an increasingly fragmented world people’s need to keep and communicate a coherent life narrative is vital. The paper takes as its starting point material presented at Culture Lab’s Personal Narratives seminar in March 2005, as well as other popular forms of personal narrative and discusses their differing structures.

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    Armele Adams

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    Gérard Subsol

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Adams, A. (2005). How Do We Build This Thing?: Imagining Frameworks for Personal Narratives. In: Subsol, G. (eds) Virtual Storytelling. Using Virtual Reality Technologies for Storytelling. ICVS 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3805. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11590361_23

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