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.
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