Locating Drama: A Demonstration of Location-Aware Audio Drama

  • Authors:
  • Nye Parry;Helen Bendon;Stephen Boyd Davis;Magnus Moar

  • Affiliations:
  • Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts, Middlesex University, Herts, United Kingdom EN4 8HT;Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts, Middlesex University, Herts, United Kingdom EN4 8HT;Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts, Middlesex University, Herts, United Kingdom EN4 8HT;Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts, Middlesex University, Herts, United Kingdom EN4 8HT

  • Venue:
  • ICIDS '08 Proceedings of the 1st Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling: Interactive Storytelling
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Locating Drama is a collaborative project between the Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts at Middlesex University and the BBC Radio Drama department. The aim of the project is to investigate narrative strategies that utilise locative technologies, principally GPS enabled devices, without being tied to a specific location, allowing listeners to experience immersive, location-aware (but non-location-specific) dramas in suitable locations near their homes, which may eventually be downloaded as interactive pod-casts from the BBC website. The demonstration will present a working drama originally produced for the BBC's Free Thinking festival 2008.