Authoring with IDN Structural Patterns
Authoring with IDN Structural Patterns
IDN Structural Patterns are a type of Design Pattern that offer three potential benefits to IDN Authors: they can inform them of common solutions to problems, they can provide ways to create complex structure quickly, and they can provide a lens to reflect on existing work. But how might they be successfully integrated into an authoring tool? In this paper I set out a design space for patterns in IDN Authoring, looking at cookbooks, patterns by design, domain specific languages, and structural parsers, and exploring whether they deliver those benefits, and also whether they support uncommon as well as common patterns.I show that no single approach delivers all of the benefits, but that combinations of methods could potentially do so, at the risk of increased cognitive load for authors. This initial work shows that there is significant potential in using patterns for authoring, but that more empirical work is needed to understand their affordances and interaction effects.
Millard, David
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28 June 2022
Millard, David
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Millard, David
(2022)
Authoring with IDN Structural Patterns.
In Proceedings of the Workshop of Narrative and Hypertext.
5 pp
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IDN Structural Patterns are a type of Design Pattern that offer three potential benefits to IDN Authors: they can inform them of common solutions to problems, they can provide ways to create complex structure quickly, and they can provide a lens to reflect on existing work. But how might they be successfully integrated into an authoring tool? In this paper I set out a design space for patterns in IDN Authoring, looking at cookbooks, patterns by design, domain specific languages, and structural parsers, and exploring whether they deliver those benefits, and also whether they support uncommon as well as common patterns.I show that no single approach delivers all of the benefits, but that combinations of methods could potentially do so, at the risk of increased cognitive load for authors. This initial work shows that there is significant potential in using patterns for authoring, but that more empirical work is needed to understand their affordances and interaction effects.
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Published date: 28 June 2022
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Narrative and Hypertext 2022, ACM Hypertext 2022, Barcelona, Spain, 2022-06-28 - 2022-06-28
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