{"id":47,"date":"2016-09-13T14:47:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T14:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/?p=47"},"modified":"2017-10-21T23:57:37","modified_gmt":"2017-10-21T23:57:37","slug":"the-character-as-subjective-interface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"The Character as Subjective Interface (2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Abstract<\/h3>\n<p>This paper re-frames virtual interactive characters as \u201csubjective interfaces\u201d with the purpose of highlighting original affordances for interactive storytelling through conversation. This notion is theoretically unpacked in the perspectives of narratology, interaction design and game design. Existing and imagined scenarios are presented in which subjective interfaces are elevated as core interaction mechanics. Finally, technical challenges posed by this approach are reviewed alongside relevant existing research leads.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Arsenault_Lessard_2016_Character-as-Sujective-Interface.pdf\">Download it here.<\/a><\/h4>\n<h3>Keywords<\/h3>\n<p>Theoretical Foundations \u00b7 Interface \u00b7 Narratology \u00b7 Game Design<\/p>\n<h3>Authors<\/h3>\n<p>Jonathan Lessard, LabLabLab, Department of Design and Computation Arts, Concordia University<br \/>\nDominic Arsenault LUDOV, Department of art history and film studies, Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract This paper re-frames virtual interactive characters as \u201csubjective interfaces\u201d with the purpose of highlighting original affordances for interactive storytelling through conversation. This notion is theoretically unpacked in the perspectives of narratology, interaction design and game design. Existing and imagined scenarios are presented in which subjective interfaces are elevated as core interaction mechanics. Finally, technical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":61,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[45,47],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper","tag-dominic-arsenault","tag-jonathan-lessard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512,"href":"https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lablablab.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}