Navigating Interactive Story Spaces. The Architecture of Interactive Narratives in Online Journalism

Interactive Architecture in Domestic Spaces

Research in the field of smart home environments is still very much technology driven. While technical aspects like system reliability, performance or data security are undeniable important design factors, potential end users desire more than pure technical functionality favoring systems with high social and hedonic value. So far, the integration of digital information layers into the architect...

The SCD Architecture and its Use in the Design of Story-Driven Interactive Spaces

In this paper we examine story-driven interactive spaces and argue that story development requires centralized control of the actions of the characters that inhabit such environments. This argument leads us to propose the story-character-device (SCD) architecture that, unlike previous approaches, separates the locus of story control in a distinct software module. To exemplify the use of the arc...

Evaluating preemptive story direction in the interactive drama architecture

An Interactive Pattern Story on Designing the Architecture of Clotho

Clotho is a software platform tailored for the synthetic biology domain and it offers functionalities to develop domain-specific “Apps” to ease engineering novel biological systems. Clotho’s current version — Clotho 2.0 — has several shortcomings regarding its architecture and the extensibility of its data model. In this paper, we report on the design process of architecting Clotho’s new versio...

Interactive Digital Narratives: Bringing Meaningful Interaction Into Public Spaces

“What we have created [...] is an impersonal theatre of human interactions, and a paradox of isolation in the midst of visual transparency” Sennett, R. (1986) The fall of public man This dissertation analyses the potential of digital interactive narratives in bringing back meaningful interaction to public spaces. In the context of this research, a definition of meaningful interaction is given a...