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Five Theses for Interactive Digital Narrative

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The field of Interactive Digital Narrative (IDN) can look back at more than 25 years of research. Considerable technical advances exist alongside open questions that still need full attention. With the discussion of five crucial aspects - narrative analysis, interoperability between different implementations, sustainability of digital artifacts, author-centered view, and user-focused perspective - the paper starts a conversation on successful methods and future goals in the research field.

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  1. Department of Telecommunications, University of Georgia, 120 Hooper Street, Athens, GA, 30602-3018, USA

    Hartmut Koenitz

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  1. Department of Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore, BLK AS6 #3-22, 11 Computng Drive, 117416, Singapore, Singapore

    Alex Mitchell

  2. NYU Game Center, 2 Metrotech Center, New York University, Room 854, 11201, Brooklyn, NY, USA

    Clara Fernández-Vara

  3. School of Computer Science, Reykjavik University, Menntavegur 1, Nauthólsvik, 101, Reykjavik, Iceland

    David Thue

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Koenitz, H. (2014). Five Theses for Interactive Digital Narrative. In: Mitchell, A., Fernández-Vara, C., Thue, D. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8832. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12337-0_13

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