@inproceedings{c293fa97ba614d25965dedfc418c7bbc,
title = "Visualizing interactive narratives: Employing a branching comic to tell a story and show its readings",
abstract = "This paper describes the design and evaluation of a branching comic to compare how readers recall a visual narrative when presented as an interactive, digital program, or as a linear sequence on paper. The layout of the comic is used to visualize this data as heat maps and explore patterns of users' recollections. We describe the theoretical justification for this based upon previous work in narrative visualizations, interactive stories and comics. Having tested the comic with school boys aged 11-12; we saw patterns in the data that complement other research in both interactive stories and visualizations. We argue that the heat maps helped identify these patterns, which have implications for future designs and analyses of interactive visual and/or narrative media.",
keywords = "Branching comics, Interactive stories, Narrative visualization, Story comprehension",
author = "Daniel Andrews and Chris Baber",
year = "2014",
month = apr,
day = "26",
doi = "10.1145/2556288.2557296",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781450324731",
series = "Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings",
publisher = "ACM",
pages = "1895--1904",
booktitle = "CHI '14: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems",
address = "United States",
note = "32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2014 ; Conference date: 26-04-2014 Through 01-05-2014",
}