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Social Interaction for Interactive Storytelling

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Abstract

In recent years interactive narratives emerged as a new form of digital entertainment, allowing users to interact and change stories according to their own desires. In this paper, we explore the use of social networks as a way of interaction in interactive narratives. We present the interaction interface of an interactive storytelling system that allows users to interact and change stories through social networks. To validate our approach we conducted a user study with 24 participants. The preliminary results show that our method improved the user satisfaction and experience. The proposed methods can be adapted to other applications that require social interaction.

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  • Interactive Storytelling
  • Social Networks
  • Social Interaction

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  1. Department of Informatics, PUC-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

    Edirlei Soares de Lima, Bruno Feijó, Simone D. J. Barbosa, Antonio L. Furtado & Fabio A. Guilherme da Silva

  2. Department of Electronics and Computing, UFSM, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil

    Cesar T. Pozzer

  3. Department of Applied Informatics, UNIRIO, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

    Angelo E. M. Ciarlini

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  3. Abteilung für Informatik und angewandte Kognitionswissenschaften, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Forsthausweg 2, 47057, Duisburg, Germany

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de Lima, E.S. et al. (2012). Social Interaction for Interactive Storytelling. In: Herrlich, M., Malaka, R., Masuch, M. (eds) Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2012. ICEC 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7522. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33542-6_1

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