Designing hypertext tools to facilitate authoring multiple points-of-view stories

How can authoring tools help authors create complex, innovative hypertext narrative structures? Tools for creating hypertext fiction typically represent such narratives in the form of nodes and links. However, existing tools are not particularly helpful when an author wants to create a story with a more complex structure, such as a story told from multiple points of view. In this paper, we describe our work to develop HypeDyn, a new hypertext authoring tool that provides alternative representations designed to make it easier to create complex hypertext story structures. As an initial exploration, the tool has been designed to support authoring of interactive, multiple-points-of-view stories. In order to describe the tool, we describe a simplified transformation of Rashomon into a progressively more interactive narrative. Along the way, we identify useful new representations, mechanisms, and visualizations for helping the author. We conclude with some thoughts about the design of int...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: HT
• Authors: Alex Mitchell, Kevin McGee
• Keywords: Authoring Tools, HT 2009, Hypertext, Hypertext fiction, Internet Technology