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International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling

ICIDS 2018: Interactive Storytelling pp 591–602Cite as

Interactive Digital Narratives (IDN) for Change

Educational Approaches and Challenges in a Project Focused on Migration

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This paper shares the results of an interactive digital narrative (IDN) project, conducted at HKU University of the Arts Utrecht. We consider the potential of ‘IDN for change’, before we describe the project, the underlying design approach and the educational approaches. A particular focus of this paper is on pedagogical considerations. We describe the educational challenges we have encountered during the project as well as the pedagogical interventions we have implemented to counter these difficulties. On this basis, we discuss a more general perspective on the state and issues in IDN-focused pedagogy.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the following students and teachers for participating in the project: Timothy Schelhaas, Ruben Bimmel, Davey Verhoef, Ermis Chalkiadakis, Sytze Schalk, Roger Lenoir, Ruben Abels and Valentijn Muijrers.

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  1. Professorship Interactive Narrative Design, HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, Nieuwekade 1, 3511 RV, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Teun Dubbelman, Christian Roth & Hartmut Koenitz

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  1. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA

    Rebecca Rouse

  2. University of the Arts Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Hartmut Koenitz

  3. Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

    Mads Haahr

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Dubbelman, T., Roth, C., Koenitz, H. (2018). Interactive Digital Narratives (IDN) for Change. In: Rouse, R., Koenitz, H., Haahr, M. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11318. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04028-4_69

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