Ebook: CrossTale: Shared Narratives as a New Interactive Medium

Through ages, storytelling has been used as one of
the main ways for transferring knowledge and learning. We
envision the use of shared narratives as a new kind of social
media that empowers the collaborative creation of vast
narrative worlds. For this reason, we identified existing
information systems related to storytelling, and evaluated how
they support multi-authored non-linear narratives. Then, we
conducted a pilot experiment to understand the user
interaction model with shared narratives more profoundly.
This model was consequently used as a premise for designing a
prototypical narrative system called CrossTale, which was
evaluated to assess the generated user experience. We discuss
how the results of these experiments show that shared
narratives have the potential of becoming a distinct type of
interactive medium supporting a new genre of user experience.