2012 Proceeding- General Chairs:
- Charlie Hargood,
- David Millard
- Sponsor:
- sigweb
Welcome to Narrative and Hypertext 2012, the second such workshop to have been hosted at the ACM Hypertext conference. A range of papers were submitted covering a variety of relevant areas from narrative systems to digital expressions. In total eight papers were accepted into the proceedings and invited for presentation at the workshop itself.
The narrative and hypertext workshop aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum to bring together individuals from the humanities and science communities to share research and discuss state-of-the-art research on narrative from both a technical and aesthetic perspective. NHT'12 follows on from the very successful narrative workshop event at HT2011 (the largest workshop in the conference) which kick-started a number of collaborations and subsequent meetings (for example, see the websites strangehypertext.org and fractalnarratives.org). This year's workshop will principally build upon these previous successes, and aims to consolidate this community.
Narrative is a prevalent form of information common in our entertainment, communication, and understanding of the world and its events. By building better models of narrative along with methods for generation, adaption, and presentation we enable narrative systems to become more effective as well as improving our understanding of narrative structures.
Narrative might also be used as a discursive representation of knowledge allowing for the capture of expert understanding. The potential for grander narratives to be formed from collections of information or discourse on the web (for example from social media) means that knowledge or identity might emerge from otherwise seemingly disparate sources.
There is an increasingly growing community of researchers working on narrative systems, hypertext narratives, and machine readable narrative models for which this workshop seeks to act as a hub to review advances and events over the previous year, as well as looking forward to the coming year, and what the field can achieve. One of the crucial conclusions of the previous year was focused on the difficulty of connecting creatives with technologists, which as a topic forms the center point of this year's discussion, along with the effect of this issue on related projects and systems.
Proceeding Downloads
An approach to hypertext fiction for mobile devices
Electronic literature has seen an explosion in popularity in recent years, due largely to the wide availability of smartphones, tablets, and dedicated e-reader devices. Somewhat surprisingly, mobile computing has been slow to embrace hypertext fiction. ...
MemoryBook: generating narratives from lifelogs
Automatic capture of life logging data can be extremely information rich, large and varied. Extracting a narrative from this data can be difficult because not all of the data is conducive to producing interesting narratives. Life logging data can be ...
The narrative braid: a model for tackling the narrative paradox in adaptive documentaries
The Narrative Paradox is a theory that describes interaction and narrative cohesion as being in tension, and asserts that the structure of a narrative is disrupted by user adaptivity, leading to possible incoherence as the system accounts for ...
The HypeDyn hypertext fiction authoring tool
In this paper we describe the HypeDyn procedural hypertext fiction authoring tool. HypeDyn supports visual authoring of adaptive hypertext fiction in which links and nodes may be varied procedurally as the result of past reader actions. This allows for ...
Hypertext as an expression of the rhizomatic self
Developments in the philosophical and social science literature around narrative and identity are seeing the emergence of an understanding of the Self as rhizomatic. Rhizomatics in narrative form can be conceptualized as hypertext. In this position ...
Gothic
A kindergarten chat [42] about the digital gothic, Kolb's story/story [16], fractal hypertext [13], and some very thin (and unemployed) characters.
We interrupt this broadcast: highly reliable narrators in radio drama
This paper presents a theory of highly reliable narration through the examples of 1930s and 1940s radio broadcasts. Compared to the unreliable narrator, which opens interpretive possibilities, the highly reliable narrator limits the conclusions that the ...
Glitched lit: possibilities for databending literature
As our attitude toward technology has fluctuated between viewing it as either a benevolent aid or a dangerous threat, the arts have responded with various ways of expressing this anxiety. Glitch art confronts this technological anxiety, and continues ...