Narrative and Play Research Studio

Faculty

• Alex Mitchell, Assistant Professor, Department of Communications and New Media.

Graduate students

• Dennis Ang, PhD student. Difficulty in Video Games: Understanding the Effects of Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment in Video Games on Player Experience.
• Kway Liting, MA student. Emotional Agency in Interactive Storytelling.
• Tiffany Neo, PhD student. Interactivity and Storytelling in Comics.
• Sim Yuin Theng, MA student. Non-verbal storytelling in games.

Honours thesis

• Roe Curie, Unreliable Narrators and Agency in Interactive Storytelling.
• Samara Gan, Understanding headcanon: Conceptualising fans’ mental models in engaging with transmedia narratives.
• Teo Geng Hao, Designing for Engagement: Incorporating Gamification in Digital Applications.
• Brandon Lee, Beyond Defamiliarization: Designing Meaning-Making in Videogames.
• Jo-Ann Ng, Interactive Art in Museums: Distraction or Delight.
• Johann Yamin, Indeterminate Interactivities: Narratives of Artist and Internet in Singapore Art Histories.

Alumni

Graduate students

• Cheong Kakit, MA student. Kwento: Designing a Mobile Application to Support Family Storytelling for Domestic Helpers in Singapore.
• Evelyn Chew, PhD student. "How Can I Tell You What I Felt?" Conveying Subjective Experience in Computer-Mediated Interactive Life Stories.
• Jing Chiang, MA student. Sweet Interactive Anticipation: Understanding the Relationship Between Aesthetic Anticipation and Interactivity in Interactive Art.

Honours thesis

• Chen Junni, Communicating Histories in Singapore: The Question of Form.
• Chen Xingyu, Are we on the same page?: Exploring the influence of different outlines on writing behaviours for collaborative storytelling.
• Lee Jia Ying Trena, Filling in the Gaps: "Shell" Playable Characters in Games.
• Kway Liting, You're Not as Bad as Everyone Says You Are: Emotional Agency in Interactive Storytelling.
• Tiffany Neo, Beyond the Gutter: Hypertextual Interactivity in Comics.
• Grace Ng, Undermining the Tale: Fictional Heterarchy in the Undertale Fandom.
• Muhammad Sufyan B Selamet, Supporting the Usage of Digital Applications Through Playful Micro-Interactions.

Independent study

• Foong Pin Sym, Are Existing Dementia Engagement Behavioural Scales Valid and Sufficient for Measuring Digital Engagement?
• Mabel Chan, Investigating Storytelling Structures in Forum Roleplay.
• Sim Jiajin, Inclusiveness and game mechanics.
• Wei Jin Jin, Interactivity and Creative Choices In Interactive Narrative Films.

Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP)

• Chen Xingyu, Fragments: Asynchronous Collaborative Storytelling.
• Sim Jiajin, Fragments: Asynchronous Collaborative Storytelling.
• Tan Ying Ling, Improv Writing: Synchronous Collaborative Storytelling.

Research staff

• Benedict Lee, junior research assistant. HypeDyn 2, Fragments: Asynchronous Collaborative Storytelling.
• Cheong Kahou, undergraduate researcher. Kwento: Supporting Mediated Family Storytelling for Migrant Workers.
• Chuah Teong Leong, research engineer. HypeDyn, Travel Teller
• Tan Shao Han, research assistant. Computer-Mediated Creative Collaboration.
• You Yingdan, research assistant. Travel Teller