Designing interactive storytelling: a virtual environment for personal experience narratives

Authors:
Ilda Ladeira;Gary Marsden;Lesley Green
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, ICT4D Lab, University of Cape Town;Department of Computer Science, ICT4D Lab, University of Cape Town;Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cape Town Lesley
Venue:
INTERACT'11 Proceedings of the 13th IFIP TC 13 international conference on Human-computer interaction - Volume Part II
Year:
2011

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Abstract

We describe an ongoing collaboration with the District Six Museum, in Cape Town, aimed at designing a storytelling prototype for preserving personal experience narratives. We detail the design of an interactive virtual environment (VE) which was inspired by a three month ethnography of real-life oral storytelling. The VE places the user as an audience member in a virtual group listening to two storytelling agents capable of two forms of interactivity: (1) User Questions: users can input (via typing) questions to the agent; and (2) Exchange Structures: the agent poses questions for users to answer. Preliminary results suggest an overall positive user experience, especially for exchange structures. User questions, however, appear to require improvement.