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Once Upon a Future: An Audio Drama Game for Episodic Imagination

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Wenn-Chieh Tsai,

Rung-Huei LiangAuthors Info & Claims

DIS '18 Companion: Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems

Pages 159 - 163

https://doi.org/10.1145/3197391.3205429

Published: 30 May 2018 Publication History

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Envisioning the future in a multidisciplinary collaboration continues to be a challenge. This paper presents a tool for engineers and designers to envision applications of emerging technologies. Drawing on the "suspension of disbelief" in audio drama and episodic memory theory about creativity, we build a four-act board game for creative narration. Participants are guided to enact future application scenarios by using playing cards along with theme music and sound effects. To test the tool, we conducted three workshops to discuss the distinct advantages and challenges of this approach.

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Once Upon a Future: An Audio Drama Game for Episodic Imagination
1. Human-centered computing

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DIS '18 Companion: Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems

May 2018

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ISBN:9781450356312

DOI:10.1145/3197391

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University of Twente
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KAIST
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Stockholm University
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The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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Simon Fraser University

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