In terms of sign systems and the way they are used, the experience of the interactive resembles nothing else so much as it resembles the experience of narrative. Narrative is best understood as a relationship between a Teller and a Listener, a relationship that is formal, moral and structural. The interactive reframes acts of narrative from re-counts and re-presentations towards simulation and ...

Storytelling is an integral part of the human experience, and understanding how stories or narratives are generated can offer insight into their importance. Current research focuses on the introduction of narrative knowledge into the generation process in order to facilitate the creation of qualitatively good narratives. Narrative generation and narrative knowledge, however, are two sides of th...

Narrative-centered learning environments offer significant promise for promoting interactive learning experiences that are both effective and engaging. Models of narrative generation and reasoning can balance the motivational and pedagogical aspects of narrative-centered learning interactions. Affect recognition and affect expression models are useful for shaping students’ affective trajectorie...

Many studies have looked at the potential of using narrative to create engaging experiences with designed objects or to enrich the design process. However, the concept of narrative is fuzzy and open to interpretation, as it is used to mean different things by different disciplines and approaches. This paper presents five definitions of narrative based on narrative theory. The use of narrative i...

There have been numerous calls to incorporate narrative more explicitly into social science methods. Towards that end, this paper identifies a range of choices concerning the analysis of narrative data. I argue that preserving the most basic features of narrative (sequential structure) is helpful, but that incorporating more aspects of narrative (such as the focal actor(s), narrative voice, and...

In this article, we address the particular issue of authoring interactive narrative with respect to video-games and interactive storytelling. We first introduce the narrative paradox between interactivity and narrative content in virtual environments and consider its impact on game design and development. We then introduce the concept of the Emergent Narrative (EN) and the particular philosophy...

The question motivating this review paper is, how can computer-based interactive narrative be used as a constructivist learning activity? The paper proposes that player agency can be used to link interactive narrative to learner agency in constructivist theory, and to classify approaches to interactive narrative. The traditional question driving research in interactive narrative is, ‘how can an...

Although entertainment-education narratives are increasingly being used to communicate health information to a diversity of populations, there is limited evidence examining the use of narrative health education videos in low compared with adequate health literacy populations. There are also very few studies directly comparing narrative materials to more traditional, non-narrative materials. Bec...

References The contributions of narrative to medical ethics come primarily in two ways: firstly, from the use of stories (narratives) for their mimetic content—that is, for what they say; and secondly, from the methods of literary criticism and narrative theory for their analysis of diegetic form—that is, for their understanding of how stories are told and why it matters. Although narrative and...