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ICIDS 2013: Interactive Storytelling pp 13–24Cite as

Narrative Intelligibility and Closure in Interactive Systems

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Abstract

In this article we define various aspects, or parameters, of interactive narrative systems and present them as a framework that can help authors, creators and designers to conceive, analyze, or prioritize the narrative goals of a given system. We start by defining the Author-Audience distance (AAD), which in turn can be seen as a function of Narrative Intelligibility. AAD can also be influenced by the intended or unintended level of abstractedness or didascalicity (i.e. figurativeness) of a given narrative. We define narrative intelligibility in complementarity with the related notion of Narrative Closure. We also make a distinction between the goals of the system and the goals of the narrative that it mediates, and consider the proposed parameters at two interrelated levels of analysis: the system level and the embedded narrative level, as the normative values and goals of these two levels should not be taken for granted.

Keywords

  • Narrative Intelligibility
  • Narrative Closure
  • Interactive Narrative
  • Interactive Storytelling
  • Emergent Narratives
  • System Goals
  • Author-Audience distance
  • Narrative Paradox
  • Abstract Narratives
  • Didascalic Narratives
  • Interactivity
  • non-linear narratives
  • Edutainment

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  1. Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Luis Emilio Bruni & Sarune Baceviciute

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  1. Department of Telecommunications, University of Georg, 30602, Athens, GA, USA

    Hartmut Koenitz

  2. Faculty of Communications, Istanbul Bilgi University, Eyub, 34060, Istanbul, Turkey

    Tonguc Ibrahim Sezen

  3. School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, 47405, Bloomington, IN, USA

    Gabriele Ferri

  4. School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

    Mads Haahr

  5. Faculty of Communications, Istanbul University, Beyazit, 34452, Istanbul, Turkey

    Digdem Sezen

  6. Bahc̨es̨ehir University, Karaköy, 34425, Istanbul, Turkey

    Güven C̨atak

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Bruni, L.E., Baceviciute, S. (2013). Narrative Intelligibility and Closure in Interactive Systems. In: Koenitz, H., Sezen, T.I., Ferri, G., Haahr, M., Sezen, D., C̨atak, G. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8230. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02756-2_2

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