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Mobile Urban Drama – Setting the Stage with Location Based Technologies

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Interactive Storytelling (ICIDS 2008)

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This paper introduces the novel concept of location-based Mobile Urban Dramas. In a Mobile Urban Drama the user become the main character in a play where actors’ voices appear in the mobile phone headset linked to the physical setting in the city as the stage for the drama. The paper describes the dramaturgical concept and introduces a software framework supporting drama writers in developing such Mobile Urban Dramas. Experiences with use of the framework are discussed with successful examples of real dramas that have been developed and performed by a Danish theatre group, Katapult.

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  1. Center for Interactive Spaces, Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Aabogade 34, DK-8200, Aarhus N, Denmark

    Frank Allan Hansen, Karen Johanne Kortbek & Kaj Grønbæk

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  1. FH Erfurt, University of Applied Sciences, Altonaerstr. 25, 99085, Erfurt, Germany

    Ulrike Spierling

  2. TECFA, FPSE, University of Geneva, CH 1211, Genève 4, Switzerland

    Nicolas Szilas

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Hansen, F.A., Kortbek, K.J., Grønbæk, K. (2008). Mobile Urban Drama – Setting the Stage with Location Based Technologies. In: Spierling, U., Szilas, N. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5334. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89454-4_4

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