Workshops  The 3rd International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS) will be held in Edinburgh, UK from Monday, November 1st to Wednesday November 3rd 2010. In conjunction to the ICIDS 2010, researchers and practitioners are invited to participate to workshops/tutorials. Affiliated workshops/tutorials will be held on Sunday, October 31st 2010 at the Informatics Forum, University of Edinburgh. The purpose of these workshops/tutorials is to provide a platform for presenting novel ideas in a less formal and possibly more focused way than the conference itself. The format of each workshop is to be determined by the organisers, but it is expected that they contain ample time for general discussion. Workshops/Tutorials 1.Users and Evaluation of Interactive Storytelling (Half-day, Morning) For long, Interactive Storytelling (IS) has been a constant focus of interest of scholars from various areas. However, in spite of the attention that specific domains of IS have received (e.g. development of tools, applications and systems), there is little prior work on connecting those notions with users’ experiences. The main purpose of this workshop is to move forward on the study of users’ experience of interactive stories by working on the identification of the variables, dynamics and methods that could contribute to explain it. It proposes participants to jointly navigate through different practices, theories, approaches, and concepts that need to be taken into account for properly shaping the complex experience of perceiving those artifacts and applications. The ultimate goal of the workshop is advancing in the definition of a model that allows measuring user engagement during consumption of interactive narratives. Organisers: Nelson Zagalo, University of Minho, Portugal Sandy Louchart, Heriot-Watt University, UK Maria Soto, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain Emails : nzagalo(at)icd(dot)uminho(dot)pt s.louchart(at)hw(dot)ac(dot)uk mariateresa(dot)soto(at)uab(dot)es Website : http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/icids2010/EvaluationWorkshop/Home.html 2.Introduction to Interactive Story Creation (Tutorial – Half Day, Morning) This tutorial targets fellow colleagues and conference newcomers with an intermediate level of creative experience in any storytelling discipline (such as film, video games, RPG etc.) or in interactive story creation. It is also interesting for story engineering colleagues who want to discuss creative principles implied by story engines' affordances. The material covers basics of conception and processing of interactive stories (that way, it can also serve as a general introduction to Interactive Storytelling), further some specific approaches of selected story engines with short insights into practical examples. This material has been compiled during the year 2010 by the EU-FP7 IRIS project, in an attempt to produce educational material for authors of Interactive Storytelling, in particular in genres using highly-interactive and generative story engines. Call for participation Organisers: Ulrike Spierling, RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, Wiesbaden, Germany Steve Hoffmann, RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, Wiesbaden, Germany Nicolas Szilas, University of Geneva, Switzerland Urs Richle, University of Geneva, Switzerland Email : tutorial(at)interactive-storytelling(dot)com Website : http://icids2010.interactive-storytelling.de/ 3.Education in Interactive Storytelling (Workshop – Half Day, Afternoon) The workshop is most interesting for fellow colleagues and members of the Interactive Storytelling community with a commitment in IS- / Games education or in interdisciplinary projects. It is useful to start building a community for exchanging and creating educational material. The workshop will be structured around participant presentations of colleagues with either an expertise, or experiences (good or bad!), maybe a strong interest, or lastly crazy and creative ideas for teaching Interactive Digital Storytelling in either artistically/creative or technically motivated seminars (or other forms of education). We are also interested in industrial or other practical experience reports of the knowledge exchange necessary in interdisciplinary projects. Call for participation Organisers: Same as Tutorial session in (2) Email : education(at)interactive-storytelling(dot)com Website : http://icids2010.interactive-storytelling.de/   4.Towards a Shared Vocabulary for Interactive Digital Storytelling (Full-day) The workshop addresses the diversity of theoretical concepts and associated critical terminology used to describe digitally mediated forms of interactive narrative. Such a variety may be confusing and unproductive. Scholars and practitioners in the interdisciplinary area of Interactive Digital Storytelling, originally trained in a specific field often continue to use the terminology they are familiar with, which often causes misunderstandings - both in the internal discussion in the field of Interactive Storytelling Design and the external one with researchers from more traditional fields within the humanities and computer sciences. The workshop addresses this topic by: • reviewing some particularly ambiguous terms – such as story and plot – and their specialized meaning according to the disciplinary context • applying them to a mini-corpus of works, • discussing possible avenues for establishing a shared vocabulary. The results of the workshop will be presented to a panel of experts that will react to the results and contribute their take on the problem. Call for participation. Organisers: Hartmut Koenitz, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Mads Haahr, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Gabriele Ferri, University of Bologna, Italy Tonguc Ibrahim Sezen, Istanbul University, Turkey Emails : hartmut(dot)koenitz(at)lcc(dot)gatech(dot)edu Mads(dot)Haahr(at)cs(dot)tcd(dot)ie gabriele(dot)ferri(at)sumitalia(dot)it tongucs(at)hotmail(dot)com Website : http://snaps.gatech.edu/ICIDS2010 5.Interactive Stories for Health Interventions (Half-day, Morning) Increasingly interactive stories are used as tools in developing health promotion and disease prevention interventions. Interactive stories provide unique power to teach and change people’s behaviors as they allow the user to experience and learn in context. Further, the story, and intervention messages, can be tailored based on user profiles and the user’s patterns of interaction within the intervention. Research in this field comes from a diverse community, e.g. game, digital art, AI, communication, and health practitioner. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers with different backgrounds, present the state-of-the-art work in the field, discuss the challenges they face, and recommend approaches that might most effectively enable them to address those challenges. The format of this workshop will be a combination of presentations and panel discussions. Please see our Call For Participation page for more details. Call for participation Organisers: Mei Si, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institut Carlos Godoy (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) Lynn Miller, Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California Stacy Marsella, Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California Emails : meisi(at)ict(dot)usc(dot)edu lmiller(at)usc(dot)edu marsella(at)ict(dot)usc(dot)edu godoyc(at)rpi(dot)edu Website : http://www.rpi.edu/~sim/ICIDS10workshop/overview.htm 6.Storytelling Within an Internet of Things (Half-day, Morning) The movement from a screen based experience of the internet to one in which everything is connected in the actual world is slowly becoming a reality. The advent of smart phones and data free contracts has provided a cultural context in Europe in which society will begin reading and writing stories to objects of their own. Digital Storytelling methodologies are required to understand how narratives between objects can be constructed as individual objects become connected with others. Exploring different social and cultural context to consider artifacts in people’s life, this workshop proposes research methods to carryout case studies and methods to understand the relationship between the objects and the participants. The implications for the knowledge to support this cultural / technical revolution are widespread – in particular of industry, but also leisure and the arts. We hope that storytellers, academics who are interested in social computing, and programmers will be interested in the workshop. Call for participation Organisers: Dr. Chris Speed, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh Duncan Shingleton, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh Arthi Kanchana Manohar, University of Dundee, Dundee Emails : c(dot)speed(at)eca(dot)ac(dot)uk duncan(at)shingleton(dot)org arthi(dot)manohar(at)gmail(dot)com Website : http://fields.eca.ac.uk/storytellingworkshop/ 7.Just Another Tool for IDS? A 1-day workshop on Korsakow (Full day) Korsakow permits the creation of interactive movies, working from linear movies. "Ok so… What else is new?" Quite a bit, not the least being the use of keywords - and how their clever use can increase readability of the interactive piece. In briefly showing you how to do all that - which is not the main objective of the workshop - we could suggest a number of topics but we decided to grab the bull by the horns... Based on material posted on the workshop website and designed to *poke* you, we will hand you a number of Flip cameras. As field work, we will ask you to go out (in the HUB that is…) capture 1 min interviews (interviews, or other creative pieces of video /photo/ and or audio) about the questions we all dread: • Can an interactive narrative be *really* compelling? (if so, what are its elements?….) • Why should we (we= academia, we=industry) care? Korsakow is now open source. In the GNU spirit, when we take, we should give back. A parallel outcome of the workshop is then • what is the IDS community feedback to the creators and developers of Korsakow? What are the opportunities and challenges of this tool when compared to other similar platforms that are part of the participants' very diverse 'luggage"… (different universities, schools of thought, cultures…). Organisers: Ana Boa-Ventura, University of Texas at Austin, USA & Media Shots, Portugal Helena Lopes, Media Shots, Portugal Inês Rodrigues, Media Shots, Portugal Emails : anaventura(at)mail(dot)utexas(dot)edu helenacslopes(at)gmail(dot)com inez(dot)web(at)live(dot)com(dot)pt Website : http://www.mediashots.org/wk

Workshops

The 3rd International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS) will be held in Edinburgh, UK from Monday, November 1st to Wednesday November 3rd 2010.

In conjunction to the ICIDS 2010, researchers and practitioners are invited to participate to workshops/tutorials.

Affiliated workshops/tutorials will be held on Sunday, October 31st 2010 at the Informatics Forum, University of Edinburgh. The purpose of these workshops/tutorials is to provide a platform for presenting novel ideas in a less formal and possibly more focused way than the conference itself.

The format of each workshop is to be determined by the organisers, but it is expected that they contain ample time for general discussion.

Workshops/Tutorials

1.Users and Evaluation of Interactive Storytelling (Half-day, Morning)

For long, Interactive Storytelling (IS) has been a constant focus of interest of scholars from various areas. However, in spite of the attention that specific domains of IS have received (e.g. development of tools, applications and systems), there is little prior work on connecting those notions with users’ experiences. The main purpose of this workshop is to move forward on the study of users’ experience of interactive stories by working on the identification of the variables, dynamics and methods that could contribute to explain it. It proposes participants to jointly navigate through different practices, theories, approaches, and concepts that need to be taken into account for properly shaping the complex experience of perceiving those artifacts and applications. The ultimate goal of the workshop is advancing in the definition of a model that allows measuring user engagement during consumption of interactive narratives.

Organisers:

Nelson Zagalo, University of Minho, Portugal

Sandy Louchart, Heriot-Watt University, UK

Maria Soto, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain

Emails: nzagalo(at)icd(dot)uminho(dot)pt

s.louchart(at)hw(dot)ac(dot)uk

mariateresa(dot)soto(at)uab(dot)es

Website : http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/icids2010/EvaluationWorkshop/Home.html

2.Introduction to Interactive Story Creation (Tutorial – Half Day, Morning)

This tutorial targets fellow colleagues and conference newcomers with an intermediate level of creative experience in any storytelling discipline (such as film, video games, RPG etc.) or in interactive story creation. It is also interesting for story engineering colleagues who want to discuss creative principles implied by story engines' affordances. The material covers basics of conception and processing of interactive stories (that way, it can also serve as a general introduction to Interactive Storytelling), further some specific approaches of selected story engines with short insights into practical examples. This material has been compiled during the year 2010 by the EU-FP7 IRIS project, in an attempt to produce educational material for authors of Interactive Storytelling, in particular in genres using highly-interactive and generative story engines. Call for participation

Organisers:

Ulrike Spierling, RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, Wiesbaden, Germany

Steve Hoffmann, RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, Wiesbaden, Germany

Nicolas Szilas, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Urs Richle, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Email: tutorial(at)interactive-storytelling(dot)com

Website: http://icids2010.interactive-storytelling.de/

3.Education in Interactive Storytelling (Workshop – Half Day, Afternoon)

The workshop is most interesting for fellow colleagues and members of the Interactive Storytelling community with a commitment in IS- / Games education or in interdisciplinary projects. It is useful to start building a community for exchanging and creating educational material. The workshop will be structured around participant presentations of colleagues with either an expertise, or experiences (good or bad!), maybe a strong interest, or lastly crazy and creative ideas for teaching Interactive Digital Storytelling in either artistically/creative or technically motivated seminars (or other forms of education). We are also interested in industrial or other practical experience reports of the knowledge exchange necessary in interdisciplinary projects. Call for participation

Organisers:

Same as Tutorial session in (2)

Email : education(at)interactive-storytelling(dot)com

Website : http://icids2010.interactive-storytelling.de/

4.Towards a Shared Vocabulary for Interactive Digital Storytelling (Full-day)

The workshop addresses the diversity of theoretical concepts and associated critical terminology used to describe digitally mediated forms of interactive narrative. Such a variety may be confusing and unproductive. Scholars and practitioners in the interdisciplinary area of Interactive Digital Storytelling, originally trained in a specific field often continue to use the terminology they are familiar with, which often causes misunderstandings - both in the internal discussion in the field of Interactive Storytelling Design and the external one with researchers from more traditional fields within the humanities and computer sciences.

The workshop addresses this topic by:

•reviewing some particularly ambiguous terms – such as story and plot – and their specialized meaning according to the disciplinary context

•applying them to a mini-corpus of works,

•discussing possible avenues for establishing a shared vocabulary.

The results of the workshop will be presented to a panel of experts that will react to the results and contribute their take on the problem. Call for participation.

Organisers:

Hartmut Koenitz, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Mads Haahr, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Gabriele Ferri, University of Bologna, Italy

Tonguc Ibrahim Sezen, Istanbul University, Turkey

Emails : hartmut(dot)koenitz(at)lcc(dot)gatech(dot)edu

Mads(dot)Haahr(at)cs(dot)tcd(dot)ie

gabriele(dot)ferri(at)sumitalia(dot)it

tongucs(at)hotmail(dot)com

Website : http://snaps.gatech.edu/ICIDS2010

5.Interactive Stories for Health Interventions (Half-day, Morning)

Increasingly interactive stories are used as tools in developing health promotion and disease prevention interventions. Interactive stories provide unique power to teach and change people’s behaviors as they allow the user to experience and learn in context. Further, the story, and intervention messages, can be tailored based on user profiles and the user’s patterns of interaction within the intervention.

Research in this field comes from a diverse community, e.g. game, digital art, AI, communication, and health practitioner. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers with different backgrounds, present the state-of-the-art work in the field, discuss the challenges they face, and recommend approaches that might most effectively enable them to address those challenges. The format of this workshop will be a combination of presentations and panel discussions. Please see our Call For Participation page for more details. Call for participation

Organisers:

Mei Si, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institut

Carlos Godoy (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

Lynn Miller, Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California

Stacy Marsella, Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California

Emails: meisi(at)ict(dot)usc(dot)edu

lmiller(at)usc(dot)edu

marsella(at)ict(dot)usc(dot)edu

godoyc(at)rpi(dot)edu

Website: http://www.rpi.edu/~sim/ICIDS10workshop/overview.htm

6.Storytelling Within an Internet of Things (Half-day, Morning)

The movement from a screen based experience of the internet to one in which everything is connected in the actual world is slowly becoming a reality. The advent of smart phones and data free contracts has provided a cultural context in Europe in which society will begin reading and writing stories to objects of their own. Digital Storytelling methodologies are required to understand how narratives between objects can be constructed as individual objects become connected with others. Exploring different social and cultural context to consider artifacts in people’s life, this workshop proposes research methods to carryout case studies and methods to understand the relationship between the objects and the participants. The implications for the knowledge to support this cultural / technical revolution are widespread – in particular of industry, but also leisure and the arts. We hope that storytellers, academics who are interested in social computing, and programmers will be interested in the workshop. Call for participation

Organisers:

Dr. Chris Speed, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh

Duncan Shingleton, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh

Arthi Kanchana Manohar, University of Dundee, Dundee

Emails: c(dot)speed(at)eca(dot)ac(dot)uk

duncan(at)shingleton(dot)org

arthi(dot)manohar(at)gmail(dot)com

Website: http://fields.eca.ac.uk/storytellingworkshop/

7.Just Another Tool for IDS? A 1-day workshop on Korsakow (Full day)

Korsakow permits the creation of interactive movies, working from linear movies. "Ok so… What else is new?"

Quite a bit, not the least being the use of keywords - and how their clever use can increase readability of the interactive piece. In briefly showing you how to do all that - which is not the main objective of the workshop - we could suggest a number of topics but we decided to grab the bull by the horns...

Based on material posted on the workshop website and designed to *poke* you, we will hand you a number of Flip cameras. As field work, we will ask you to go out (in the HUB that is…) capture 1 min interviews (interviews, or other creative pieces of video /photo/ and or audio) about the questions we all dread:

•Can an interactive narrative be *really* compelling? (if so, what are its elements?….)

•Why should we (we= academia, we=industry) care?

Korsakow is now open source. In the GNU spirit, when we take, we should give back. A parallel outcome of the workshop is then

•what is the IDS community feedback to the creators and developers of Korsakow? What are the opportunities and challenges of this tool when compared to other similar platforms that are part of the participants' very diverse 'luggage"… (different universities, schools of thought, cultures…).

Organisers:

Ana Boa-Ventura, University of Texas at Austin, USA & Media Shots, Portugal

Helena Lopes, Media Shots, Portugal

Inês Rodrigues, Media Shots, Portugal

Emails: anaventura(at)mail(dot)utexas(dot)edu

helenacslopes(at)gmail(dot)com

inez(dot)web(at)live(dot)com(dot)pt

Website: http://www.mediashots.org/wk_edinburgh2010

ICIDS 2010

The third International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling

November 1st - 3rd 2010

Edinburgh UK