In many interactive narrative pieces, agency is often narrowly understood as a user’s freedom to either perform actions or alter the mechanics of narration at will. This paper presents an interactive narrative project, Memory, Reverie Machine (MRM), which explores the expressive use of agency as a narrative device. After a concise review of the concept’s rich social implications and its adaptat...

The only structure is provided by the selection of a specific point in time as the focus of the research. The narration has to emerge from it. A very general indication for the oral histories you will have to collect can be starting from 1984, the year of famine, which also saw the first massive involvement of the international community in Darfur. You can than move to the change in regime of 1...

The current study investigated the inclusion of goal-based story events in the online story narrations of children with ADHD, as compared with their peers, and explored the effect of stimulant medication on the narrations in children with ADHD. Children completed a narration task on two separate occasions. Children with ADHD (n = 17) completed one narration on medication and the other one on pl...