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CfP special issue of Multimodal Technologies & Interaction on Interactive Storytelling, Deadline: 1 Nov 2018

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Call for Papers:
INTERACTIVE STORYTELLING WITH MULTIMODAL INTERFACES
a special issue of the journal Multimodal Technologies and Interaction

Manuscript submission deadline: 1 November 2018

Interactive digital storytelling aims at using digital media to create 
narrative experiences that can be influenced by the user. It is an 
interdisciplinary field that combines research in artificial intelligence, 
computer science, narrative, drama, and interactive technologies. The 
expressive media that have been most commonly used in interactive digital 
storytelling include text and various forms of virtual reality, but recent 
advances in multimodal technologies have opened up the potential for 
creating narrative experiences that also address other senses besides 
sight and hearing. In particular, tangible interaction and physical 
interfaces as new interaction paradigms provide rich interactive spaces 
that are close to our senses and our way to understand the real world.

Including tangible or physical affordances in interactive storytelling 
settings provides opportunities to improve storytelling tools, as well as 
the quality of the related user experiences by going more physical. 
However, using tangible objects and physical interaction for storytelling 
can be demanding and bring additional research challenges, as this expands 
the boundaries of the system beyond the digital space where computations 
typically take place. The use of multiple modalities, such as vision, 
sound, touch, and possibly even taste or smell, in digital interactive 
storytelling, raises its own questions. For example, how can the 
affordances of such modalities be most effectively combined to achieve the 
desired narrative experience, and how can they be taken into account in 
computational story models.

For this special issue, we therefore invite submissions that address the 
challenges of using multiple modalities for interactive digital 
storytelling, with a focus on?but not limited to?tangible, embodied and 
physical interfaces. We welcome full papers as well as preliminary 
technical notes and survey papers on some aspect of the subject. If you 
plan to submit a survey paper, please contact the guest editors at your 
earliest convenience, in order to avoid multiple surveys covering the same 
material.

Keywords:
- Interactive digital storytelling
- Tangible interfaces
- Multimodal interaction
- Computational story modelling
- Interactive story spaces
- Intelligent tangibles and robots
- Multisensory narrative experiences

Guest Editors:
Marit Theune, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Alejandro Catal, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Cristina Sylla, University of Minho, Portugal
Pedro Ribeiro, Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences, Germany

About the journal:

MTI is an open access, peer-reviewed journal, edited by Professor Adrian 
David Cheok. Articles submitted to MTI in 2018 are free of article 
processing charge. All submissions will be subject to peer review.

For information on manuscript preparation and related matters, please see 
the instructions for authors: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/mti/instructions
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