Interactive Storytelling

This two-volume set, LNCS 15467 and LNCS 15468, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2024, held in Barranquilla, Colombia, during December 2-6, 2024.

The 21 full papers, 9 short papers, and 11 Late-Breaking Works presented here, were carefully reviewed and selected from 75 submissions. The papers presented in these two volumes are organized under the following topical sections: -

Part I : Theory, History and Foundations; Social and Cultural Contexts; Interactive Narrative Design; Applications and Case Studies.

Part II : Virtual Worlds, Performance, Games and Play; Tools and Systems; Late Breaking Works.

. -
Virtual Worlds, Performance, Games and Play
.

. - WILDWOOD: Southside Chicago Worldbuilding Through Interactive Digital Narrative.

. - Friendship with AI - Immersive Science Fiction Prototyping for Responsible Innovation.

. - Where s the Finance? : A Transmedia Storytelling Experience to Engage Young Adults in Financial Educational Content.

. - Navigating Sexualization: A Thematic Analysis of Sexualized Character Design in Modern Video Game Narratives.

. - Emotional believability of non-playable game characters.

. - Finding Queerness in Gaming: How Players See LGBTQ+ Themes in Non-Queer Games.

. - Popcorn Movie: Dynamic Narrative Feedback for Spontaneous Live Action Video Storytelling.

. - DreaMR: The Effects of Multisensory Design on Cross-Modal Perception across Genres with Mixed Reality Concert.

. -
Tools and Systems
.

. - Building Visual Novels with Social Simulation and Storylets.

. - A tool for the calculation of characters emotions.

. -
Late Breaking Works
.

. - Teaching Data Storytelling in a Computational Thinking course for Students in Communications careers.

. - El Centro (The Downtown): A Collaborative Transmedia Project among Ibero-American Universities.

. - Subliminal Teaching for Elderly People Through Crossmedia Storytelling.

. - Affective Sound: Developing a Critical Framework for Audio-Based Interactive Digital Narratives.

. - What if we educated students assuming they can think? A plan for a critical education in interactive narratives, games and related fields.

. - Fostering Empathy Through Inclusive Interactive Digital Narratives.

. - Interactive Digital Narratives for modern historical research.

. - Design of knowledge graphs for Interactive Digital Narratives Authoring.

. - Being Water : Collaborating with an LLM in an Interactive Digital Narrative (IDN) as Speculative Aesthetics.

. - Exploring Collaborative Interactive Digital Narrative Creation in Higher Education Through Narrative Analysis: A Case Study on COVID-19 Storytelling.

. - The IDN design model: a proposal for an extended SPP model.