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A Proposed Curriculum for an Introductory Course on Interactive Digital Narratives in Virtual Reality

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Interactive Storytelling (ICIDS 2021)

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Immersive Media programs of study are being developed and enacted at many higher education institutions. It is proposed that a course on Interactive Digital Narratives (IDN) in Virtual Reality (VR) can familiarize undergraduate students of diverse backgrounds with the foundational technical, design, and development tenets of immersive storytelling. Course curriculum balances IDN design and immersive storytelling strategies with VR project management, user experience and interface design, spatial audio, digital scenography, introductory programming, and rudimentary artificial intelligence. The course connects technical and media affordances to theories of IDN to provide an introductory understanding of IDN in VR. The proposed course ran in the spring of 2021 at a small liberal arts college. The paper presents the course’s 15-week curriculum. An evaluation that includes student work, insights lessons, and resources is provided.

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Fisher, J.A., Samuels, J.T. (2021). A Proposed Curriculum for an Introductory Course on Interactive Digital Narratives in Virtual Reality. In: Mitchell, A., Vosmeer, M. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13138. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92300-6_47

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