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Achieving the feeling of enjoyment from a reading activity might be harder for consumers due to their gradual adaptation to digital media that provide fast and intense experiences. To preserve the reading tradition with the help of digital technologies, ...

As technology continues to advance, the interaction between humans and cats is becoming more diverse. Our research introduces a new tool called the AI Cat Narrator, which offers a unique perspective on the shared lives of humans and cats. We combined the ...

Interactive digital narratives for telephones, described as smartfictions, are based on our ordinary practices with a smartphone, in particular instant messaging and notifications. Using the example of Bury me, my Love, the paper analyses the play ...

Hyperfictions for telephones, described as smartfictions, are based on our ordinary practices with a smartphone, in particular instant messaging and notifications. Using the example of Bury Me, My Love, we analyse the play on the boundary between ...

Many creative writing tasks (e.g., fiction writing) require authors to write complex narrative components (e.g., characterization, events, dialogue) over the course of a long story. Similarly, literary scholars need to manually annotate and interpret ...

For a long-time HCI discourse has viewed ageing and elderly care through a medicalised lens in which care is broken down into distinct problems, such as activities of daily living and addressing accessibility problems. Increasingly, this approach is ...

Storyspace, introduced at the first ACM Workshop on Hypertext in 1987, was developed as a hypertext system for exploring creative writing and for writing instruction. Uniquely among systems of that era, Storyspace continues in use today, and Storyspace ...

A challenge was issued to members of the hypertext research community to create a complete hypertext fiction in no more than 48 hours of work. Writers were asked to submit the work as well as short reflections on issues of craft and technique they ...

In this paper, we present three speculative scenarios that explore the future of living with shape-changing interfaces. Each scenario is concerned with one area of this potential future. Three areas, which originated in a workshop with 25 researchers, ...

Fiction authors and readers have traditionally interacted through the mediation of a 3rd party (e.g. a publisher or agent), at events such as book signings or author readings. Held in physical spaces (e.g. bookshops or libraries), these events enable ...

New media were meant to augment our abilities and to liberate our understanding. We dreamed of fast access to unbounded libraries, of university-level courses delivered at minuscule cost to remote villages, of access to tools. We envisioned new literary ...

If we have not yet achieved planetary super-villainy on the desktop, it may be feasible to fit it into a suburban office suite. Social media and Web science permit the modern villain to deploy traditional cruelties to great and surprising effect. ...

Our slaves of steel [4] explored some moral questions that arise from narrative with persistent digital agents. If we propose to her on the holodeck, can Ophelia conceivably consent to marry us? Here, we propose simple audio agents that are well within ...

Online tools enable authors and readers to share information, questions and feedback about a written work without the mediation of a publisher or agent. Little is known about how the two groups interact online around works of fiction, using either ...

We explore how an excerpt from a science fiction novel describing a near-future miniature wireless streaming camera technology can be used to elicit privacy concerns from participants. We conduct an online experiment (n=151) to compare participants' ...

This design fiction presents a self-contained fictional study of the following description: Familiar interfaces have grown to be one of the most common forms of reaction computing in applications today. The last few years have seen a rise in the number ...

The study of information science and technology has expanded over the years to include more kinds of people, more kinds of behavior, more methods, and a broader inclusion of fields. There is at least one area, however, where very few information studies ...

Storyspace was introduced in one of the first papers presented at the first ACM Workshop of Hypertext, and gave rise to a number of significant hypertexts, both fiction and nonfiction. A new implementation of Storyspace for contemporary computing ...

Human language is colored by a broad range of topics, but existing text analysis tools only focus on a small number of them. We present Empath, a tool that can generate and validate new lexical categories on demand from a small set of seed terms (like "...

From smart homes that prepare coffee when we wake, to phones that know not to interrupt us during important conversations, our collective visions of HCI imagine a future in which computers understand a broad range of human behaviors. Today our systems ...