Interactive TV narratives: Opportunities, progress, and challenges

ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Ursu, Marian F ^a   Thomas, Maureen ^b   Kegel, Ian ^c   Williams, Doug ^c   Tuomola, Mika ^d   Lindstedt, Inger ^e   Wright, Terence ^f   Leurdijk, Andra ^g   Zsombori, Vilmos ^a   Sussner, Julia ^b   Myrestam, Ulf ^c   Hall, Nina ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c BT ^*  (Sweden)

^d AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^e MALMÖ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^g TNO   (Netherlands)

^h BBC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computational narrativity; Digital storytelling; Entertainment; Interactive; Media; Narrativity; Nonlinear; Screen media; Shapeshifting; Television

Indexed keywords

LINEAR PROGRAMMING;

COMPUTATIONAL NARRATIVITY; DIGITAL STORYTELLING; ENTERTAINMENT; INTERACTIVE; MEDIA; NARRATIVITY; NONLINEAR; SCREEN MEDIA; SHAPESHIFTING;

DIGITAL TELEVISION;

EID: 56349163076     PISSN: 15516857     EISSN: 15516865     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1412196.1412198     Document Type: Review

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