CrossTale: Shared Narratives as a New Interactive Medium

摘要

Through ages, storytelling has been used as one of the main ways for transferring knowledge and learning. We envision the use of shared narratives as a new kind of social media that empowers the collaborative creation of vast narrative worlds. For this reason, we identified existing information systems related to storytelling, and evaluated how they support multi-authored non-linear narratives. Then, we conducted a pilot experiment to understand the user interaction model with shared narratives more profoundly. This model was consequently used as a premise for designing a prototypical narrative system called CrossTale, which was evaluated to assess the generated user experience. We discuss how the results of these experiments show that shared narratives have the potential of becoming a distinct type of interactive medium supporting a new genre of user experience.