Design da travessia do utilizador para a aplicação de software do projeto CHIC baseada em localização

Abstract

According to the author Cardoso, in an interactive narrative, the user lives a personal and unique experience, developing their journey within the ergodic panorama of the system's topology. For the authors Cardoso and Carvalhais, traversal can be understood as the user's journey between the dynamic tensions of two types of narratives: the hardcoded narrative - fixed and pre-determined- and the emergent narrative - that emerges from the interaction of the user / player with the system. This concept is applied in the context of the CHIC project, carried out in collaboration between FEUP, Gema Digital, Universidade Católica Portuguesa and Jornal de Notícias, which aims the study and the development of a location-based authoring tool to provide experiences for the exploration of tourist points in a ludic way. This study explores the relationship between the user and the system, focusing on these narratives. Through this relationship, this investigation aims to study different applications of the various types of traversals in the digital system of the CHIC project, as well as detecting new types of traversals that have not been foreseen. The investigation method is based on the gathering of authoring systems as case studies alongside with the development of a prototype of the authoring tool and usability tests with serious participants. The study results promote the design of interactive narratives and the understanding of how to design the traversals. The study proposes a solution for the design of the user's traversal under the CHIC project and promotes solutions for narratives focused on tourism and historic heritage.