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Objective Metrics for Interactive Narrative

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Interactive Storytelling (ICIDS 2014)

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This paper describes, implements and assesses a series of user-log indicators for automatic interactive narrative evaluation. The indicators include length and duration, diversity, renewal, choice range, choice frequency, and choice variety. Based on a laboratory experiment with players, a significant positive correlation has been observed between two indicators and some aspects of the interactive narrative experience measured by validated scales based on questionnaires.

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  1. TECFA, FPSE, University of Geneva, 1211, Genève 4, Switzerland

    Nicolas Szilas & Ioana Ilea

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  1. Department of Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore, BLK AS6 #3-22, 11 Computng Drive, 117416, Singapore, Singapore

    Alex Mitchell

  2. NYU Game Center, 2 Metrotech Center, New York University, Room 854, 11201, Brooklyn, NY, USA

    Clara Fernández-Vara

  3. School of Computer Science, Reykjavik University, Menntavegur 1, Nauthólsvik, 101, Reykjavik, Iceland

    David Thue

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Szilas, N., Ilea, I. (2014). Objective Metrics for Interactive Narrative. In: Mitchell, A., Fernández-Vara, C., Thue, D. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8832. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12337-0_9

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