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Measuring User Responses to Interactive Stories: Towards a Standardized Assessment Tool

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Interactive Storytelling (ICIDS 2010)

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With the increasing number of prototypes and market applications of interactive storytelling, the understanding and optimization of how end users respond to computer-mediated interactive narratives is of growing importance. Based on a conceptual model of user experiences in interactive storytelling, a measurement instrument for empirical user-based research was developed. We report findings from an initial test of the self-report scales that was conducted with N=80 players of the adventure game ”Fahrenheit”. Interactivity was manipulated experimentally in order to validate the measures. Results suggest that the scales will be useful for comparing user responses to ‘real’ interactive storytelling systems.

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  1. Center for Advanced Media Research Amsterdam (CAMeRA), VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081, HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Ivar E. Vermeulen & Christian Roth

  2. Media and Communication Studies, University of Mannheim, Rheinvorlandstrasse 5, D-68159, Mannheim, Germany

    Peter Vorderer

  3. Department of Communication, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Kleinmann-Weg 2, 55099, Mainz, Germany

    Christoph Klimmt

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  1. School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot Watt University, EH14 4AS, Edinburgh, UK

    Ruth Aylett

  2. School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot Watt University, EH14 4AS, Edinburgh, UK

    Mei Yii Lim

  3. School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, EH 14 4AS, Edinburgh, UK

    Sandy Louchart

  4. Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Freyung 6/6, 1010, Vienna, Austria

    Paolo Petta

  5. School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 85 Fifth Street NW, 30308, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Mark Riedl

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Vermeulen, I.E., Roth, C., Vorderer, P., Klimmt, C. (2010). Measuring User Responses to Interactive Stories: Towards a Standardized Assessment Tool. 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_7

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