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The Character as Subjective Interface

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Interactive Storytelling (ICIDS 2016)

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This paper re-frames virtual interactive characters as “subjective interfaces” with the purpose of highlighting original affordances for interactive storytelling through conversation. This notion is theoretically unpacked in the perspectives of narratology, interaction design and game design. Existing and imagined scenarios are presented in which subjective interfaces are elevated as core interaction mechanics. Finally, technical challenges posed by this approach are reviewed alongside relevant existing research leads.

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    For more on this, see Booth’s concept of unreliable narrator [3].

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  1. LabLabLab, Department of Design and Computation Arts, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada

    Jonathan Lessard

  2. LUDOV, Department of Art History and Film Studies, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada

    Dominic Arsenault

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  1. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Frank Nack

  2. The Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Andrew S. Gordon

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Lessard, J., Arsenault, D. (2016). The Character as Subjective Interface. In: Nack, F., Gordon, A. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10045. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48279-8_28

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