Suspenseful Design:Engaging Emotionally with Complex Applications through Compelling Narratives

suspense;narrative;engagement;motivation;gamification;application design;tutorials;Computer Science

Langer, Kimberly Rebecca

University of Waterloo

关键词: suspense;    narrative;    engagement;    motivation;    gamification;    application design;    tutorials;    Computer Science;   

Others  :  https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/bitstream/10012/8882/5/Langer_Rebecca.pdf

瑞士|英语

来源: UWSPACE Waterloo Institutional Repository

【 摘 要 】

Stories are fundamental to how we learn about and experience the world, but few software interfaces incorporate stories or use story-telling techniques. This thesis explores the possibility of applying principles of suspenseful storytelling to interaction design to create more engaging and emotionally compelling applications. Specifically, this work introduces a theoretical framework for designing suspenseful software-applications; describes the process of constructing a suspenseful, story-based tutorial; and documents a controlled experiment in which this suspenseful tutorial was pitted against two more traditional tutorial designs. Participants who used the narrative-based tutorial reported greater feelings of hopeful suspense than those who worked through an unsuspenseful tutorial.