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Using Highly Interactive Drama to Help Young People Cope with Traumatic Situations

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Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of disability and has a devastating impact on all family members. The goal of our project is to design, develop, and evaluate a pedagogical interactive drama to support uninjured youths aged 12 to 19 years who have a parent or sibling with a TBI. We used IDtension, a highly interactive drama engine, to develop a text-based interactive game, in which young users play the role of Frank, who has to prepare a dinner with Paul, his father, who suffers from a TBI.

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Szilas, N., Richle, U., Boggini, T., Dumas, J. (2010). Using Highly Interactive Drama to Help Young People Cope with Traumatic Situations. In: Aylett, R., Lim, M.Y., Louchart, S., Petta, P., Riedl, M. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6432. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16638-9_42

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