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Designing an interface for multimodal narrative creation

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CHI EA '11: CHI '11 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1979742.1979686

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Many young people struggle with developing writing skills, and computer game creation is a motivating activity with potential in this area. Existing software allows young people to design 3D areas and add game objects, but provides little or no interface support for writing and structuring narratives. This research explores the support required to create 3D multimodal narratives, adopting user-centred methods to design, build and evaluate a suite of dynamic representational tools. A key interface design challenge is developing representations that foster writing skills without losing the motivational immediacy of the activity.

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Howland KGood Jdu Boulay BBers MRevelle G(2015)Narrative support for young game designers' writingProceedings of the 14th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children10.1145/2771839.2771858(178-187)Online publication date: 21-Jun-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2771839.2771858

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CHI EA '11: CHI '11 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

May 2011

2554 pages

ISBN:9781450302685

DOI:10.1145/1979742

General Chair:
Desney Tan
Microsoft Research
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Bo Begole
PARC
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Wendy A. Kellogg
IBM Research

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Howland KGood Jdu Boulay BBers MRevelle G(2015)Narrative support for young game designers' writingProceedings of the 14th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children10.1145/2771839.2771858(178-187)Online publication date: 21-Jun-2015
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