Climate Influence: Implicit Game-Based Interactive Storytelling for Climate Action Purpose

Zijing Song; Yating Sun; Vincent  Ruijters; Ray Lc

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-92300-6_42

Climate Influence: Implicit Game-Based Interactive Storytelling for Climate Action Purpose

Zijing Song
, Yating Sun
, Vincent Ruijters
, Ray Lc^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Creative Media

Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary Works › RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication) › peer-review

14 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

People have emotionally ingrained perspectives when it comes to climate action, making it difficult to argue against climate change denial using arguments like data and policy. Stories and games, however, engage audiences on a subconscious level, working to promote causes that align with readers’ innate motivations. In creating visual narratives, we realized that interactive games in exhibit form can promote values that align with pro-climate actions of seeing long-term consequences, individual responsibility, and caring for others. We created a Tamagotchi device to narrate the caretaking theme to align audiences to climate action without policy argument. We found that audiences understood the game as showing caretaking in environmental contexts as opposed to intervention on resource depletion, interacting with the instrument on a human purposive level instead of the physical level of resource and policy.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Interactive Storytelling
Subtitle of host publication	14th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2021, Tallinn, Estonia, December 7–10, 2021, Proceedings
Editors	Alex Mitchell, Mirjam Vosmeer
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer
Pages	425-429
Number of pages	5
Volume	13138 LNCS
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030923006
ISBN (Print)	9783030922993
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92300-6_42
Publication status	Published - 2021
Event	14th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS 2021) - Santa Cruz, CA, United States Duration: 7 Dec 2021 → 10 Dec 2021

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume	13138
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Conference	14th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS 2021)
Place	United States
City	Santa Cruz, CA
Period	7/12/21 → 10/12/21

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SDG 13 Climate Action

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Climate action
Serious games
Implicit storytelling
Tamagotchi

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Song, Z., Sun, Y., Ruijters, V., & Lc, R. (2021). Climate Influence: Implicit Game-Based Interactive Storytelling for Climate Action Purpose. In A. Mitchell, & M. Vosmeer (Eds.), Interactive Storytelling: 14th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2021, Tallinn, Estonia, December 7–10, 2021, Proceedings (Vol. 13138 LNCS, pp. 425-429). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 13138). Springer . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92300-6_42

Song, Zijing ; Sun, Yating ; Ruijters, Vincent et al. / Climate Influence : Implicit Game-Based Interactive Storytelling for Climate Action Purpose. Interactive Storytelling: 14th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2021, Tallinn, Estonia, December 7–10, 2021, Proceedings. editor / Alex Mitchell ; Mirjam Vosmeer. Vol. 13138 LNCS Cham : Springer , 2021. pp. 425-429 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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Song, Z, Sun, Y, Ruijters, V & Lc, R 2021, Climate Influence: Implicit Game-Based Interactive Storytelling for Climate Action Purpose. in A Mitchell & M Vosmeer (eds), Interactive Storytelling: 14th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2021, Tallinn, Estonia, December 7–10, 2021, Proceedings. vol. 13138 LNCS, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 13138, Springer , Cham, pp. 425-429, 14th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS 2021), Santa Cruz, CA, United States, 7/12/21. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92300-6_42

Climate Influence: Implicit Game-Based Interactive Storytelling for Climate Action Purpose. / Song, Zijing; Sun, Yating; Ruijters, Vincent et al.
Interactive Storytelling: 14th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2021, Tallinn, Estonia, December 7–10, 2021, Proceedings. ed. / Alex Mitchell; Mirjam Vosmeer. Vol. 13138 LNCS Cham: Springer , 2021. p. 425-429 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 13138).

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Song Z, Sun Y, Ruijters V, Lc R. Climate Influence: Implicit Game-Based Interactive Storytelling for Climate Action Purpose. In Mitchell A, Vosmeer M, editors, Interactive Storytelling: 14th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2021, Tallinn, Estonia, December 7–10, 2021, Proceedings. Vol. 13138 LNCS. Cham: Springer . 2021. p. 425-429. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Epub 2021 Dec 4. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-92300-6_42

Climate Influence: Implicit Game-Based Interactive Storytelling for Climate Action Purpose

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