Day 2: Tuesday 4 November

8:00am: Bus departs from Studio M (for hotel guests only)

8:10am: Bus departs from Grand Copthorne Waterfront (for hotel guests only)

8:30am: Registration

9:30am: Keynote

  • Old Dogs - New Tricks: Lessons from the interactive documentary (details)
    William Uricchio

10:30am: Coffee break

11am: Evaluation and Analysis

  • Objective Metrics for Interactive Narrative (full paper; abstract)
    Nicolas Szilas and Ioana Ilea
  • The PC3 Framework: A Formal Lens for Analyzing Interactive Narratives Across Media Forms (full paper; abstract)
    Brian Magerko
  • Storytelling Artifacts (full paper; abstract)
    Toke Krainert

12:30pm: Lunch at The University Club

2pm: Theory

  • Towards a Hermeneutic Narratology of Interactive Digital Storytelling (short paper; abstract)
    Fanfan Chen
  • Five Theses for Interactive Digital Narrative (short paper; abstract)
    Hartmut Koenitz

2:30pm: Artists' panel

3:30pm: Coffee break

4pm: Retrospectives

  • Interactive cinema: Engagement and interaction (short paper; abstract)
    Mirjam Vosmeer and Ben Schouten
  • Fleeing the Operator: The User Experience and Participation in Marble Hornets (2009-2014) (short paper; abstract)
    Devin Hartley
  • Mapping Trends in Interactive Non-fiction through the Lenses of Interactive Documentary (short paper; abstract)
    Arnau Gifreu

5pm: Bus leaves to ArtScience Museum

6pm: Art exhibition gallery visit

7pm: River cruise

8pm: Conference dinner

Academic conference program

Important Dates

  • November 2-5, 2014: ICIDS Art Exhibition.
  • November 3-6, 2014: ICIDS Conference.