Archive for October, 2005

iTV Research Site

Research UncategorizedPublished October 19, 2005 at 7:05 pm No Comments

UITV.INFO is a hub (sort of) of interactive TV research resources. The site provides details on PhD theses; journals; conference proceedings; papers, books; research projects; newsletter. There isn’t every bit of information about these areas, in fact, the papers section looks the most comprehensive (though not updated for a while).

Need Motivation to Act?

Cross-Media Design UncategorizedPublished October 17, 2005 at 4:55 pm No Comments

Now everyone knows what a cliff-hanger is, yet many cross-media creators usually end each story or game element in one medium with no motivation to move to another. I just came across a hellofa motivation to employ the cliff-hanger technique, and once again, it is thousands of years old: In the 1001 Nights, a King
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No Speaka Engrish

Industry ResearchPublished October 17, 2005 at 12:51 pm No Comments

I’ve just come from a rush of work as an industry mentor in cross-media storytelling (and I’ll post about it more soon). I found the experience immensely valuable for the development of my ideas, but have also been caught in the middle of an assumption vacuum. I research cross-media storytelling from a number of perspectives:
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