[ecrea] Call for Participation - ICIDS workshop on Users and Evaluation of Interactive Storytelling

>Half-day Workshop (9:30am - 12:30pm)
>at ICIDS 2010
>3rd International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling
>
>Nelson Zagalo, Sandy Louchart, Maria T. Soto-Sanfiel
>
>Call for Participation
>
>For long, Interactive Storytelling (IS) has been a constant focus of
>interest of scholars from various
>areas. However, in spite of the attention that specific domains of IS
>have received (e.g. development of
>tools, applications and systems), there is little prior work on
>connecting those notions with users
>experiences. The main purpose of this workshop is to move forward on
>the study of users experience of
>interactive stories by working on the identification of the variables,
>dynamics and methods that could contribute to explain it. It proposes
>participants to jointly navigate
>through different practices, theories, approaches, and concepts that
>need to be taken into account for
>properly shaping the complex experience of perceiving those artifacts
>and applications. The ultimate
>goal of the workshop is advancing in the definition of a model that
>allows measuring user engagement
>during consumption of interactive narratives.
>
>The workshop will investigate a wide range of disciplines so as to
>identify specific and appropriate
>techniques, procedures and methods for properly measuring the
>experience and its effects on receivers.
>As workshop organizers, we conducted preliminary theoretical work and
>outlined three factors towards a model of users narrative: narrative
>(a), formal (b), and decisions (c).
>These aspects will form the basis for discussions at the workshop.
>
>The final goal is then to provide an opportunity for participants to
>exchange ideas and research results
>on the the evaluation of Games and Interactive Storytelling's consumption.
>
>Not being mandatory for your participation we solicit contributions
>that reflect the state-of-art work in
>the field.
>
>Areas of interest include but not limited to:
>
>1) Narrativity
>2) Aesthetic
>3) Problem solving
>4) Methodology
>5) Emotion studies
>6) Reception
>7) Persuasion
>
>Please submit your interest of participation or one-page abstract of
>your work to Nelson Zagalo
>(nzagalo at ics.uminho.pt).
>
>More information about the workshop can be found at
>http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/icids2010/EvaluationWorkshop
>
>Submission Deadline of Participation Interest: 10/15/10
>Submission Deadline of Abstract: 10/20/10
>
>
>The workshop will be limited to twenty participants so as to preserve
>active participation.
>
>
>Organisers
>Nelson Zagalo, University of Minho, Portugal
>Sandy Louchart, Heriot-Watt University, UK
>Maria T. Soto-Sanfiel, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
>
>Emails
>nzagalo(at)icd(dot)uminho(dot)pt
>s.louchart(at)hw(dot)ac(dot)uk
>mariateresa(dot)soto(at)uab(dot)es
>
>Website
>http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/icids2010/EvaluationWorkshop/Home.html

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