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An Interactive Documentary Manifesto

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Interactive Storytelling (ICIDS 2010)

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In the last few years the word ”documentary” has been loosely used to describe multimedia pieces that incorporate video no matter its nature, technique, language or scope, taking advantage of the fuzzy and fragile boundaries of the documentary definition. The present manifesto aims to give a brief insight on the interactive documentary arena and also to sketch some production remarks for future interactive documentary productions.

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  1. School of Fine Arts, University of Porto, Av. Rodrigues de Freitas 265, 4049-021, Porto, Portugal

    Andre Almeida & Heitor Alvelos

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  1. School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot Watt University, EH14 4AS, Edinburgh, UK

    Ruth Aylett

  2. School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot Watt University, EH14 4AS, Edinburgh, UK

    Mei Yii Lim

  3. School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, EH 14 4AS, Edinburgh, UK

    Sandy Louchart

  4. Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Freyung 6/6, 1010, Vienna, Austria

    Paolo Petta

  5. School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 85 Fifth Street NW, 30308, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Mark Riedl

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Almeida, A., Alvelos, H. (2010). An Interactive Documentary Manifesto. In: Aylett, R., Lim, M.Y., Louchart, S., Petta, P., Riedl, M. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6432. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16638-9_16

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