Workshops
Workshops will be held at the Shaw Foundation Alumni House on Thursday, 6 November 2014. Interested participants are encouraged to contact the organizers of each workshop directly. For general information, please contact the ICIDS organizing committee at icids2014@gmail.com.
An Introduction to Game Mastering:
How to use Tabletop Role-Playing Games to Collaboratively Produce and Create Stories
Organizer: Tan Shao Han
When and where: 9am to 5:30pm, Seminar Room 1
Intended audience: The intended audience for this workshop would be people who are interested in learning about how tabletop role-playing games (TRPGs) can be used as collaborative storytelling tools. The workshop will also cover how these techniques and approaches in TRPGs can be applied in the fields of storytelling in interactive media and computer games.
Contact information: Tan Shao Han, shao.han.tan@gmail.com
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Managing Informational Interactive Digital Storytelling Projects
Organizer: Deborah Elizabeth Cohen, Gyeongju University
When and where: 9am to 12:30pm, Seminar Room 2
Intended audience: It is anticipated that this interdisciplinary workshop will be of interest to the participant interested in the design and development of informational interactive digital stories as a manager, artist, writer, programmer and/or academic.
Contact Information: Dr. D. Elizabeth Cohen, drdelizabethcohen@cognition-ignition.com
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Narrative Analysis of Interactive Digital Storytelling
Organizer: Colette Daiute, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
When and where: 9am to 12:30pm, Seminar Room 3
Intended audience: The intended participants for this workshop are beginning or advanced researchers, instructors, and designers seeking methods for analyzing interactive digital stories and storytelling processes. Attendees should be interested in a brief foundation of narrative theory to guide strategies for analysis of digital storytelling and look forward to applying several narrative analysis tools to interactive digital storytelling examples. Workshop attendees are also welcomed to apply activities to their own projects and to discuss future directions of this approach. No prior experience with narrative inquiry is required.
Contact information: Colette Daiute, cdaiute@gc.cuny.edu
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Future Perspectives for Interactive Digital Narrative
Organizers: Hartmut Koenitz, University of Georgia; Mads Haahr, Trinity College, Dublin; Gabriele Ferri, Indiana University; Tonguc Ibrahim Sezen, Istanbul Bilgi University; and Digdem Sezen, Istanbul University
When and where: 2pm to 5:30pm, Seminar Room 3
Intended audience: We invite a broad variety of participants to this workshop, including researchers, professionals, artists, publishers and critics. Our aim is to assemble a wide range of perspectives, in order to imagine future scenarios for our field that take into account the highest number of points of view.
Contact information: Hartmut Koenitz, futureworkshop2014@gamesandnarrative.net
Workshop website: http://gamesandnarrative.net/icids-2014-workshop/
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Story Modelling and Authoring
Organizers: Ulrike Spierling, Hochschule RheinMain, Wiesbaden, Germany and Alex Mitchell, National University of Singapore
When and where: 2pm to 5:30pm, Seminar Room 3
Intended audience: The complexity of interactive storytelling technologies often requires the use of authoring tools, which may embody specific models for thinking about storytelling. This workshop is intended for researchers, engineers and creators in the area of Interactive Storytelling who are interested in exploring or sharing their experiences related to the relationship between story modelling, authoring tools, and authorial expression.
Contact information: Ulrike Spierling, storymodel2014@interactive-storytelling.com
Workshop website: http://edu.interactive-storytelling.de/storymodel2014.html
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