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Immersive technologies aligned with storytelling can create novel and powerful tools to inform and ponder on social issues. This demo paper describes a cinematic virtual reality project, Tell a Tail 360\(^{\circ }\), on the rescue of abandoned companion animals. Tell a Tail 360\(^{\circ }\) was designed targeting teens (13–19 years old) and its inclusion in a classroom setting. By using 360\(^{\circ }\) videos of a rescue kennel, animal hospital and the field work of non-governmental organizations, we intend for the target audience to be exposed to different animal welfare issues relevant to their context.
P. Bala and M. Dionisio—These authors contributed equally.
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This work has been supported by MITIExcell (M1420-01-0145-FEDER-000002), LARSyS-FCT funding (UIDB/50009/2020) and FCT Ph.D. Grant PD/BD/128330/2017 and PD/BD/114142/2015.
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Bala, P., Dionisio, M., Andrade, T., Nisi, V. (2020). Tell a Tail 360\(^{\circ }\): Immersive Storytelling on Animal Welfare. In: Bosser, AG., Millard, D.E., Hargood, C. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12497. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62516-0_35
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