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Research in Interactive Drama Environments, Role-Play and Story-Telling

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Sandy Louchart,

Allan WeallansAuthors Info & Claims

Interactive Storytelling: Fourth International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2011, Vancouver, Canada, November 28 – 1 December, 2011. Proceedings

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25289-1_1

Published: 28 November 2011 Publication History

Abstract

This paper gives an overview of the UK network RIDERS – Research in Interactive Drama Environments, Role-Play and Story-telling, running for 36 months from September 2011. It discusses the three central themes of RIDERS: theoretical work on the conflict between interactivity and narrative content, problems, issues and tools relating to authoring, and directions in evaluation. It gives a brief overview of the current position in each of these areas and suggests how RIDERS activity might be able to contribute to them. Finally it summarises the overall RIDERS programme of activity.

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Interactive Storytelling: Fourth International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2011, Vancouver, Canada, November 28 – 1 December, 2011. Proceedings

Nov 2011

383 pages

ISBN:978-3-642-25288-4

DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-25289-1

Editors:
Mei Si
Cognitive Science Department, Renselear Polytechnic Institute, Carnegie 311, 110 8 th Street, 12180, Troy, NY, USA
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David Thue
Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, T6G 2E8, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Elisabeth André
Laboratory for Human-Centered Multimedia, Instituti for Informatik, Augsburg University, Universitaetsstr. 6a, 86159, Augsburg, Germany
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James C. Lester
Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, 890 Oval Drive, 27695-8206,, Raleigh, NC, USA
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Theresa Jean Tanenbaum
School of Interactive Arts and Technology ( SIAT), Simon Fraser University, V3T 0A3, Surrey, BC, Canada
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Veronica Zammitto
Electronic Arts, 4330 Sanderson Way, V5G 4X1, Burnaby, BC, Canada

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