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Using Information Visualization to Understand Interactive Narrative: A Case Study on Façade

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Interactive Storytelling (ICIDS 2011)

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Video games increasingly take place in dynamic worlds with more autonomous characters and highly variable and moldable narratives. However, our tools for studying how players interact with these complex worlds are severely limited. In this paper, we propose different visualizations that can be used to more effectively analyze interactive narrative systems, and present a case study that applies these techniques to analysis of player logs from the interactive drama Façade.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Baskin School of Engineering, University of California, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, USA

    Serdar Sali & Michael Mateas

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  1. Cognitive Science Department, Renselear Polytechnic Institute, Carnegie 311, 110 8 th Street, 12180, Troy, NY, USA

    Mei Si

  2. Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, T6G 2E8, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

    David Thue

  3. Laboratory for Human-Centered Multimedia, Instituti for Informatik, Augsburg University, Universitaetsstr. 6a, 86159, Augsburg, Germany

    Elisabeth André

  4. Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, 890 Oval Drive, 27695-8206,, Raleigh, NC, USA

    James C. Lester

  5. School of Interactive Arts and Technology ( SIAT), Simon Fraser University, V3T 0A3, Surrey, BC, Canada

    Theresa Jean Tanenbaum

  6. Electronic Arts, 4330 Sanderson Way, V5G 4X1, Burnaby, BC, Canada

    Veronica Zammitto

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Sali, S., Mateas, M. (2011). Using Information Visualization to Understand Interactive Narrative: A Case Study on Façade. In: Si, M., Thue, D., André, E., Lester, J.C., Tanenbaum, T.J., Zammitto, V. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7069. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25289-1_31

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