Affective Sound: Developing a Critical Framework for Audio-Based Interactive Digital Narratives
2025 (English)In: Interactive storytelling: 17th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2024, Barranquilla, Colombia, December 2–6, 2024, Proceedings, Part II / [ed] John T. Murray; María Cecilia Reyes, Cham: Springer, 2025, p. 205-213Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
In our current research project we develop a critical framework to facilitate the design and the critique of audio-based interactive narrative experiences. We foreground deep material connections to sound and affect as well as to the rhetorical and narrative properties of story/voice as a vehicle for storytelling. We draw inspiration for our framework from a range of philosophical, theoretical and aesthetic influences including posthumanism, new material feminism, affect studies, interaction design, as well as sound design and interactive and traditional narrative research. Our framework is intended to aid in the design of such audio-based artifacts to support embodied user experiences where affect is a key principle to support innovative material storytelling/deep listening with sound as the primary vehicle for delivery. To facilitate deeper understanding of the framework, we apply it to three original audio-based narratives we created to assess them preliminarily in terms of the four key areas we identify to understand affective narrative audio-based media: Temporality, Mediation, Interaction, and Embodiment/Material Experience. In future research we hope to expand and apply our model to other sound based works and to undergo more intensive user-testing.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Cham: Springer, 2025. p. 205-213
Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, ISSN 0302-9743, E-ISSN 1611-3349 ; 15468
Keywords [en]
Affect, Audio, Interactive Digital Narrative, Sound, 'current, Audio-based, Design designs, Interaction design, Interactive digital narratives, Interactive narrative, Property, Sound designs
National Category
Human Computer Interaction Design Information Systems
Research subject
GAME Research Group
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:his:diva-24850DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-78450-7_14Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85213955488ISBN: 978-3-031-78449-1 (print)ISBN: 978-3-031-78450-7 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:his-24850DiVA, id: diva2:1929204
Conference
17th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2024, Barranquilla, Colombia, December 2–6, 2024
Note
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025
Correspondence Address: L. Holloway-Attaway; University of Skövde, Skövde, Sweden; email: lissa.holloway-Attaway@his.se
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International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling
2025-01-202025-01-202025-01-21Bibliographically approved