InterFace portraits: communicative-expressive interaction with a character's mind

Authors:
Noam Knoller
Affiliations:
Unaffiliated Artist, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Venue:
Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on Story representation, mechanism and context
Year:
2004

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Abstract

In this paper, I introduce the notion of communicative-expressive interaction with a character's mind, within an interactive fiction video. It is an interaction model that allows a participant continuous interaction with a story as a way of increasing the participant's agency and immersion and consequently both the sense of engagement and the meaning of the interactive experience in its relation to the story. I describe a work-in-progress system called the InterFace Portrait Storyteller, in which participants use familiar gestures performed on a touch screen to explore the character's mind, which is constructed as a diegetic space. I also describe two interactive video installations, "One Measure of Happiness" and "Have I Lost My Plot?" within which the system interacts with either narrative or non-narrative approaches to the representation of diegtic space.