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ICIDS 2017: Interactive Storytelling pp 359–362Cite as

Leveraging on Transmedia Entertainment-Education to Offer Tourists a Meaningful Experience

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Abstract

Interactive technologies provide the tools to empower audiences to participate in new interactive storytelling experiences applied to tourism. We envisage studying how transmedia entertainment-education experiences can expose tourists towards local pressing issues and social good while providing them with a rich entertaining and educating experience. We describe the research approach that leads to design and implementation of a bespoke transmedia entertainment education experience, composed by two interconnected components: an online participatory portal (“Há-Vita”) and a mobile context-aware story (Fragments of Laura). The experience was designed to encourage visitors to learn about Madeira’s rich natural heritage and develop knowledge and awareness about its history and biodiversity.

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  • Transmedia storytelling
  • Entertainment education
  • Mobile technologies
  • Tourism experience
  • Research through design

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  1. Madeira-ITI, University of Madeira, Campus da Penteada, 9020-105, Funchal, Portugal

    Mara Dionisio & Valentina Nisi

  2. Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Campus da Caparica, Lisbon, Portugal

    Mara Dionisio & Nuno Correia

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  1. Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal

    Nuno Nunes

  2. Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, Korea (Republic of)

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  3. University of Madeira, Funchal, Portugal

    Valentina Nisi

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Dionisio, M., Nisi, V., Correia, N. (2017). Leveraging on Transmedia Entertainment-Education to Offer Tourists a Meaningful Experience. In: Nunes, N., Oakley, I., Nisi, V. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10690. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71027-3_43

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