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Lost cause, an interactive film project

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MM '08: Proceedings of the 16th ACM international conference on Multimedia

Pages 569 - 578

https://doi.org/10.1145/1459359.1459435

Published: 26 October 2008 Publication History

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One of the challenges in designing an interactive cinematic experience is to offer interactive choices, which does not distract the user from immersion into the story. The interactive film Lost Cause focuses on the life of the main character explored through the perspectives of three characters. The correlated design of interface, interactions and narrative structure in Lost Cause uses different techniques to support an immersive yet engaging interactive story experience. One technique is to build an interface which encourages smooth viewer oscillation between the content of the story and interactivity of the interface. Another technique is challenged-based immersion created through viewer's navigation to discover the story. A user study was conducted to analyze how well interactions in Lost Cause affect viewer understanding and immersion into the story. The results from this study suggest the overall design is versatile and provides various degrees of viewer immersion.

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Verdugo RNussbaum MCorro PNúñez Palma PNavarrete P(2011)Interactive films and coconstructionACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications10.1145/2043612.20436177:4(1-24)Online publication date: 2-Dec-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2043612.2043617

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Lost cause, an interactive film project
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MM '08: Proceedings of the 16th ACM international conference on Multimedia

October 2008

1206 pages

ISBN:9781605583037

DOI:10.1145/1459359

General Chairs:
Abdulmotaleb EL Saddik
University of Ottawa
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Son Vuong
University of British Colombia
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Program Chairs:
Carsten Griwodz
University of Oslo
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Alberto Del Bimbo
University degli Studi di Firenze
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K. Selcuk Candan
Arizona State University
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Alejandro Jaimes
Telefonica R&D, Madrid, Spain

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Ma CWang HSun Hvan Huijgevoort EWang MHe Z(2021)Powering TV Experiences with Anytime Environmental ExplorationExtended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3411763.3451600(1-6)Online publication date: 8-May-2021
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Verdugo RNussbaum MCorro PNúñez Palma PNavarrete P(2011)Interactive films and coconstructionACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications10.1145/2043612.20436177:4(1-24)Online publication date: 2-Dec-2011
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