Playful Interfaces for Scientific Image Data: A Case for Storytelling

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Author(s): Amalia Kallergi (Leiden University, The Netherlands)and Fons J. Verbeek (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 19
Source title: Emerging Research and Trends in Interactivity and the Human-Computer Interface
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Katherine Blashki (Noroff University College, Norway)and Pedro Isaias (Portuguese Open University, Portugal)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4623-0.ch024

Keywords: Human Aspects of Technology / Human-Computer Interaction / Information Science Reference / Social Sciences & Humanities

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Recent developments in the field of HCI draw our attention to the potential of playful interfaces, play, and games. This chapter identifies a new but relevant application domain for playful interfaces (i.e. scientific practice involving image data). Given the thesis that play and playfulness are relevant for a researcher's interaction with scientific images, the question remains: How do we design playful interfaces that support meaningful ways to playfully engage with scientific images? This chapter introduces, investigates, and implements storytelling with scientific images as a worthwhile instance of playful interaction with scientific images. To better understand and further exemplify the potential of storytelling with scientific images, the chapter contributes both a review of utilitarian usages of storytelling with images and findings from a case study storytelling game.

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