StoryTrek: experiencing stories in the real world

Authors:
Rilla Khaled;Pippin Barr;Brian Greenspan;Robert Biddle;Elise Vist
Affiliations:
IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark;IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark;Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada;Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada;Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Venue:
Proceedings of the 15th International Academic MindTrek Conference: Envisioning Future Media Environments
Year:
2011

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Abstract

In this paper we introduce StoryTrek, a locative hypernarrative system developed to generate stories based on a reader's location and specific movements in the real world. This creates, for readers, an interplay between navigation, narrative, and agency, as well as between the fictional and real world experience. In early tests we observed the emergence of a number of recurrent themes in participants' experiences which are characteristic of the StoryTrek system, but which also help us to understand locative media storytelling affordances more generally. In this paper we present the system itself, along with initial thematic observations concerning agency, role play, reflection, and shared experience.