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No recall or foretelling for Interactive Digital Narrative - documenting InStory

Main informationBy: Helena Barbas (CENTRIA)

Date: Wednesday, 5th of November 2008, 14h00

Location: FCT/UNL, Seminar Room (Ed. II)
AbstractThis presentation depicts the problems faced concerning the use of time modalities in the making of interactive digital narratives for the Instory project (http://img.di.fct.unl.pt/InStory/).The project had the goal of defining and implementing a platform for mobile and cinematic storytelling, information access, and gaming activities, using a PDA, in «Quinta da Regaleira» (World Heritage) in Sintra, Portugal. The system is driven and validated by a set of story threads that are centred on the exploration of physical spaces (the real world, in real time). The plot development was naturally constrained by that very same environment, affecting some literary tools – as the relation between story and discourse - in this particular case, analepsis/flashback and prolepsis/flash-forward. This literary ruse cannot be supported by narratives of this kind.
Short-bioHelena Barbas (1951) is Professor-lecturer of the Departament of Portuguese Studies - F.C.S.H. -U.N.L., and a researcher of CENTRIA. She holds a MA (1990) and a PhD (1998) in Comparative Literature – Literature and the Arts, and gained her "Habilitation” (2008) in Literature and Cyberarts. Helena Barbas´ present research interests are Serious games, IF, avatars, the usage of AI decision models and agents behaviour for the making of digital persona and narratives. As a member of the «InStory Project» team she developed mobile digital interactive narrative content, and is studying the consequences of the recent IT practices for Narratology/Literary theory. URL: http://www2.fcsh.unl.pt/docentes/hbarbas/index.html
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