Frank Nack & Annika Waern. (2012). Mobile digital interactive
Storytelling —a winding path, New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, Vol. 18 (1-2), p.3-9.
The article provided useful background information of interactive storytelling and how interactive storytelling has step out to the physical world. The article discussed the advancement of technology which has allowed locative storytelling where sensor-based smart phones are used to locate your surroundings and tell a story based on your location. The article raised some issues on the different roles the reader should take as they follow through locative storytelling. It could be a story where more than one reader is needed in that location for the story to move forward. In addition, the content of the story could either be fiction, non-fiction or a mix of both based on the location.
The article analyses the different methods in creating locative storytelling such as author point of view, being the main character and collecting informative task. Each story is designed to navigate toward a certain answer and its relation to the physical world. Besides creating the content for interactive storytelling, other tools such as text and sounds help to enhance the surrounding. Moreover, the article ended with the issue of locative storytelling as an individual reader or player rather than collaboration. Collaboration would create a chaotic narrative experiences.
The finding on story based location with your smart phones is useful for my topic in researching about interactive storytelling. The team could use the methods when creating an interactive story. We could then create an interactive storytelling with multiple narratives such that more readers can participate for the story to be told.
