From: "Timothy J. Anderson" Subject: Re: INFO: Virtual-Drama/Contacts > I'm interested >in developing a way to tell stories in VR - How should it be done - >can it be done? Is it possible to control the drama in an non-linear >and interactive environment? Does anyone know any titles - >books/magazines/articles? For Laurel, some references include: Laurel, Brenda. Interface as Mimesis. User-Centered System Design: New Perspectives on Human-Computer Interaction. D. A. Norman, and S. Draper, editors. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1986. Laurel, Brenda. ~Reassessing Interactivity.~ Journal of Computer Game Design. 1987 1(3). Laurel, Brenda. "Dramatic Action and Virtual Reality." 1989 NCGA Interactive Arts Conference; 1989. Laurel, Brenda. ~A Taxonomy of Interactive Movies.~ New Media News (The Boston Computer Society). 1989 3(1). Laurel, Brenda. ~New Interfaces for Entertainment.~ Journal of Computer Game Design. 1989; 2(5). Laurel, Brenda. ~On Dramatic Interaction.~ Verbum. 1989; 3(3). Laurel, Brenda. "Art and Activism in VR." Verbum, 3.3. 1991. Laurel, Brenda. Computers as Theatre. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley; 1991. Laurel, "Interface Agents: Metaphors with Character"; in Laurel, The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design, 355-366. Laurel, "The Role of Drama in the Evolution of Virtual Reality"; in Virtual Reality '90: Theory, Practice, Promise [videorecording; VHS NTSC]. Vol. 1 ~ Theory, vol. 2 ~ Practice, vol. 3 ~ Promise. Virtual Reality Conference and Exhibition sponsored by Multimedia Review and Virtual Reality Report December 10-11, 1990 at San Francisco, CA. Distributed by Art Com, San Francisco. Westport, CT: Meckler; 1991. 360 mins. Laurel, Brenda, editor. The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.; 1990. (Note: contents include "Conversation as Direct Manipulation" by Susan Brennan ~ "Through the Looking Glass" by John Walker ~ "User Interface: A Personal View" by Alan Kay ~ "Interface Agents: Metaphors with Character" by Brenda Laurel ~ ~Guides: Characterizing the Interface~ by Tim Oren, Gitta Salomon, Kristee Kreitman and Abbe Don ~ ~Narrative and the Interface~ by Abbe Don ~ ~VIDEOPLACE and the Interface of the Future~ by Myron Krueger ~ ~What~s the Big Deal about Cyberspace?~ by Howard Rheingold ~ ~Realness and Interactivity~ by Mark Naimark ~ ~Designing a New Medium~ by Tim Oren ~ "Virtual Interface Environments" by Scott Fisher, and others). Laurel is explicitly Aristotelian. For a Brechtian perspective see: Gigliotti, Carol. "VR, or the Modern Frankenstein." Interface. November 1992; 4(2): 5-8. Some relevant papers from the Oz interactive fiction project at Carnegie Mellon include: Kelso, Margaret; Weyhrauch, Peter; Bates, Joseph. "Dramatic Presence." Pittsburgh, PA: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University; October 1992; CMU-CS-92-195. Smith, Sean; Bates, Joseph. Towards a Theory of Narrative for Interactive Fiction. Pittsburgh, PA: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University; 1989. Technical Report CMU-CS-89-121. Bates, Joseph. "Virtual Reality, Art, and Entertainment." Presence. December 1992; 1(1): 133-138. Myron Krueger has addressed this tangentially. Among many papers, see: "The 'Art' in Artificial Reality: Videoplace & Other New Forms of Human Experience" in Jacobson, Linda, editor. Cyberarts: Exploring Art & Technology. San Francisco, CA: Miller Freeman, Inc.; 1992. Krueger, Myron W. Artificial Reality II. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley; 1991. undramatically, tim Tim Anderson Fine Arts Services Coordinator University Libraries ta10@andrew.cmu.edu Carnegie Mellon University fax: 412.268.6944 Pittsburgh, PA 15213 voice: 412.268.2451