A Spectrum of Audience Interactivity for Entertainment Domains (Won best paper)

Proposed Spectrum of Audience Interactivity for Entertaintment Domains

Abstract

The concept of audience interactivity has been rediscovered across many domains of storytelling and entertainment—e.g. digital games, in-person role-playing, film, theater performance, music, and theme parks—that enrich the form with new idioms, language, and practices. In this paper, we introduce a Spectrum of Audience Interactivity that establishes a common vocabulary for the design space across entertainment domains. Our spectrum expands on an early vocabulary conceptualized through co-design sessions for interactive musical performances. We conduct a cross-disciplinary literature review to evaluate and iterate upon this vocabulary, using our findings to develop our validated spectrum.

Publication
International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS) 2019