Forecasting the experience of future entertainment technology: "interactive storytelling" and media enjoyment

Games and Culture

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 187-208

  Klimmt, Christoph ^a   Roth, Christian ^b   Vermeulen, Ivar ^b   Vorderer, Peter ^c   Roth, Franziska Susanne ^c  

^a Hanover University of Music and Drama   (Germany)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

entertainment; expert study; future entertainment systems; interactivity; media enjoyment; narrative; storytelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864346094     PISSN: 15554120     EISSN: 15554139     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1555412012451123     Document Type: Article

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