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A Research Framework for Engineering Location-Based Poetics

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David E. Millard,

Charlie HargoodAuthors Info & Claims

NHT '15: Proceedings of the 2015 Workshop on Narrative & Hypertext

Pages 13 - 16

https://doi.org/10.1145/2804565.2806671

Published: 01 September 2015 Publication History

Abstract

Technology has always created new opportunities for storytelling, but in the last few decades the rate of change in technology has accelerated enormously, and our technological platforms have become fluid and uncertain. This is a problem because there is a relationship between the affordances and characteristics of the technology, and the poetics of our storytelling using that technology. In essence, different types of technology are good for telling different types of story in different ways, and yet technology is developed without any sense of its embedded poetics, and writers are left to experiment with the results. For example, location-based systems are now common, and there are many apps that experiment with location and storytelling, but the poetics of location-based narratives are poorly understood, and thus have not informed the development of those apps. In this paper we present a research framework, drawing on techniques from participatory design, UX, and Games Design, for exploring how writers can be involved in the process of building new software and as a result co-create both location-based technology and new location-based narrative forms.

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Index Terms

A Research Framework for Engineering Location-Based Poetics
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Software implementation planning
        Software design techniques
    2. Software development process management

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NHT '15: Proceedings of the 2015 Workshop on Narrative & Hypertext

September 2015

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ISBN:9781450337977

DOI:10.1145/2804565

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University of Southampton
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University of Southampton

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Packer HHargood CHoward YPapadopoulos PMillard D(2017)Developing a Writer’s Toolkit for Interactive Locative StorytellingInteractive Storytelling10.1007/978-3-319-71027-3_6(63-74)Online publication date: 14-Nov-2017
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Nisi VCostanza EDionisio M(2016)Placing Location-Based Narratives in Context Through a Narrator and Visual MarkersInteracting with Computers10.1093/iwc/iww020Online publication date: 12-Jul-2016
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