Companies today are expected to engage in corporate social responsibility (CSR) and they spend a lot of time, money, and other resources on these tasks. However, in relation to their investment, the gain for most companies is marginal, because their efforts are only perceived by a small number of people. In this paper, our goal is to improve on this situation by involving a greater number of pe...

The mobile internet expands the immersive potential of storytelling by introducing electronic games powered by portable, location-aware interfaces. Mobile gaming has become the latest iteration in a decades-long evolution of electronic games that seek to empower the player not just as an avatar in a gameworld but also as a co-author of that gameworld, alongside the game’s original designers. Lo...

With the revolution of information and communication technology (ICT), various digital means have been explored to interact and share life experiences with others. Among them, digital storytelling is a pioneering technique that allows ordinary people to share their stories from unique, personal perspectives. Digital storytelling is being effectively utilized in education, health, and for politi...

This position paper brings forth the hypothesis that it is possible to use results from the social psychology’s area of persuasion in order to influence the player of an interactive story in predictable ways. Several important concepts of persuasion such as how people make decisions, and how can we influence the process of decision are discussed. We end with a proposal on how to apply these res...

This study explored associations between the five-factor personality traits of human subjects and their feelings of rapport when they interacted with a virtual agent or real humans. The agent, the Rapport Agent, responded to real human speakers’ storytelling behavior, using only nonverbal contingent (i.e., timely) feedback. We further investigated how interactants’ personalities were related to...

Design/methodology/approach – Eight interviews were undertaken to investigate storytelling in user interpretations of the images. Following this, storytelling was explored as an indexing input method. Twenty-six research subjects were asked to create stories about the images, which were then considered in relation to conventional story elements and in relation to Rafferty and Hidderley’s 2005 i...

Collective storytelling is a narrative form that has cultural, cognitive, and organizational applications. Built on existing research in group collaboration, this short paper examines how certain game mechanics can be used to encourage and structure collaboration in StoryJam, a multi-player online game for collective storytelling.

In this paper we consider the issues involved in influencing a user in an interactive storytelling context using results from the social psychology’s area of persuasion. We hypothesize that it is possible to use these results in order to influence the user in predictable ways. Several important concepts of persuasion, such as how people make decisions, and how can we influence that process are ...