Audience Interactivity

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

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, …

Live Interactive Narratives and Games

With the wide-scale availability of mobile devices, and more recently the adoption of augmented reality (AR) technologies, researchers have manually authored narratives to document cultural heritage and community-based narratives or goals as well as procedurally generated narratives for various geo-locations populated with NPCs. My research focuses on the affordances and constraints of real-world geographic constraints, logistics, lifestyles to generate interactive experiences for the real world.