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assimilate: An Interface for Collaborative Narrative Construction

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Interactive Storytelling (ICIDS 2011)

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This paper describes the interface component of a visual collaborative storytelling system that enables participatory narration by means of tangible user interaction. The essential feature of the interface is to incorporate participants’ creative actions by embedding metaphorical schemes through its mechanics and from the visualisation of self-organising content to support collaborative narrative comprehension.

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  1. UTS Games Studio, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

    Damian Hills

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  1. Cognitive Science Department, Renselear Polytechnic Institute, Carnegie 311, 110 8 th Street, 12180, Troy, NY, USA

    Mei Si

  2. Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, T6G 2E8, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

    David Thue

  3. Laboratory for Human-Centered Multimedia, Instituti for Informatik, Augsburg University, Universitaetsstr. 6a, 86159, Augsburg, Germany

    Elisabeth André

  4. Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, 890 Oval Drive, 27695-8206,, Raleigh, NC, USA

    James C. Lester

  5. School of Interactive Arts and Technology ( SIAT), Simon Fraser University, V3T 0A3, Surrey, BC, Canada

    Theresa Jean Tanenbaum

  6. Electronic Arts, 4330 Sanderson Way, V5G 4X1, Burnaby, BC, Canada

    Veronica Zammitto

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Hills, D. (2011). assimilate: An Interface for Collaborative Narrative Construction. In: Si, M., Thue, D., André, E., Lester, J.C., Tanenbaum, T.J., Zammitto, V. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7069. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25289-1_33

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