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Comic-Crowd: interactive comic creation that supports multiple storylines, visualizations, and platforms

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Comic-Crowd is an interactive digital comic system for developing and presenting multiple comic-book storylines and multiple visualizations. To date, digital comic books have had the same format and level of interaction since they first appeared. Thus, such comics have one storyline, and the interaction is akin to turning pages. In contrast, our approach supports multiple storylines, so that readers can select a storyline, with say, a happy or sad ending, depending on their preferences. Thus, our format and level of interaction are more dynamic than those of conventional digital comics. Moreover, since our format can provide multiple visualizations, it would be useful for a wide variety of applications. In this paper, we describe our Comic-Crowd concept and an implementation that expresses its unique interaction features and format.

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    MUM '15: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia
    November 2015
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    1. branching narratives
    2. comic and manga
    3. contents creation
    4. information visualization
    5. interactive system
    6. multi-hop derivation
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