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The relationship between hypertext research and games design is not clear, despite the striking similarity between literary hypertexts and narrative games. This matters as different communities are now exploring hypertext, interactive fiction, ...

MovIPrint is a user-friendly, interactive installation that uses software and a depth-sensing camera to capture human body movement. After inputting digital data such as images or video into the software, MovIPrint offers people innovative and user-...

co_LAB is the Collaboration Laboratory, an interdisciplinary research network initiated by colleagues from the University of Lincoln School of Film and Media, to explore new approaches to teaching and learning through the use of networked digital tools, ...

New video platforms have enabled a wide variety of opportunities for rewatching video content. From streaming sites such as Netflix, Hulu, and HBO Now, to the proliferation of syndicated content on cable and satellite television, to new streaming ...

The infusion of mobile and collaborative technologies into our everyday lives enables new forms of pervasive games and play. We use the term pervasive play as shorthand for technology-mediated, playful experiences that are tethered to our everyday lives ...

United Universe is a second screen transmedia experience aimed at supporting understanding of a complex storyworld presented across media artifacts. Using the highly interconnected and allusive Marvel Cinematic Universe as a primary example, United ...

From entertainment to news to corporate marketing, social media has infused, informed and revolutionized the way creators are reaching their audience.

In this discussion we will explore the core impact of social media as a storytelling medium, how ...

In this paper videogames and transmedia are examined from the perspectives of both creation (game design) and audience reception (gameplay experience), in light of the theories of the DPFi (Domain, Person Field interaction) systems model of creativity (...

Time Tremors is a transmedia experience for children aged 8-14 that crosses television, web, locative media, and mobile apps. Time Tremors is a collection game in which players search for objects from history supposedly scattered throughout time and ...

In this paper we present The Remediation of Nosferatu, a location based augmented reality horror adventure. Using the theory of fictional universe elements, we work with diverse material from Nosferatu's horror genre and vampire themes as a case study. ...

This paper presents insights from designers of Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) regarding the design tactics they employ to integrate participatory storytelling and "authentic fiction" into the transmedia experiences they create. Our approach was ...

Nowadays we live in a society rich of a growing number of messages spread by multichannel and multimodal devices [9, 27, 21, 18]. A scenario that outlines the need of a designer able to manage the coexistence of multiple factors using his tools to ...

In this paper we describe how creative writing techniques were used to develop a non-linear model of narrative structure for historical drama and how an ontology was developed to facilitate publishing it on the web as transmedia content.

This paper presents a visual-based media event detection system based on the automatic discovery of the most circulated images across the main news media (news websites, press agencies, TV news and newspapers). Its main originality is to rely on the ...

While transmedia storytelling surrounds us in our daily lives as we experience ubiquitous market campaigns, there is a dearth of documented instances of transmedia storytelling being used for curricular purposes within formalized learning environments. ...

In this paper, we apply a writing, activity, and genre research (WAGR) framework to explore how research participants designed complex transmedia narratives during a two-semester experiential learning course that was conducted in concert with a major ...

Although the current paradigm for expanded participatory storytellling is the "transmedia" exploitation of the same storyworld on multiple platforms, it can be more productive to think of the digital medium as a single platform, combining all the ...

This is a description of a transmedia music format development project, named TMS and one research study conducted in order to guide the format developers in the early stages of developing the transmedia idea. Our work integrates user experience ...

Gaming has a past; it cannot escape the rearticulation of genres, traditions and images of its history. The haunting of the present is all the more visible here than in other forms, as non-digital media are bound by types of material traces. But what ...

This paper addresses the vast practice encompassed under the placeholder term polymorphic creations: contemporary tie-ins, pervasive gaming, telematic arts and so on. A position is put forward where a heterogenous model is championed in favour of a ...