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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Interactive Storytelling, ICIDS 2014, Singapore, Singapore, November 2014.
The 20 revised full papers presented together with 8 short papers 7 posters, and 5 demonstration papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 67 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on story generation, authoring, evaluation and analysis, theory, retrospectives, and user experience.

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Storytelling with Adjustable Narrator Styles and Sentiments.- Combinatorial Dialogue Authoring.- Diegetization: An Approach for Narrative Scaffolding in Open-World Simulations for Training.- Authoring Personalized Interactive Museum Stories.- An Authoring Tool for Movies in the Style of Heider and Simmel.- Exploring Performative Authoring as a Story Creation Approach for Children.- Interweaving Story Coherence and Player Creativity through Story-Making Games.- Remain Anonymous, Create Characters and Backup Stories: Online Tools Used in Internet Crime Narratives.- Objective Metrics for Interactive Narrative.- The PC3 Framework: A Formal Lens for Analyzing Interactive Narratives across Media Forms.- Storytelling Artifacts.- Toward a Hermeneutic Narratology of Interactive Digital Storytelling.- Five Theses for Interactive Digital Narrative.- Interactive Cinema: Engagement and Interaction.- Fleeing the Operator: The User Experience and Participation in Marble Hornets (2009-2014).- Mapping Trends in Interactive Non-fiction through the Lenses of Interactive Documentary.- Narrative Cognition in Interactive Systems: Suspense-Surprise and the P300 ERP Component.- Ontology-Based Visualization of Characters´ Intentions.- Interactive Storytelling in a Mixed Reality Environment: How Does Sound Design and Users´ Preknowledge of the Background Story Influence the User Experience.- Structuring Location-Aware Interactive Narratives for Mobile Augmented Reality.- Fictional Realities: Augmenting Location-Based Stories through Interaction with Pervasive Displays.- Comparison of Narrative Comprehension between Players and Spectators in a Story-Driven Game.- Moral Values in Narrative Characters: An Experiment in the Generation of Moral Emotions.- Three Is a Magic Number: Virtual Cameras for Dynamic Triadic Game Dialogue.- AR as Digital Ekphrasis: The Example of Borsuk and Bouse´s between Page and Screen.- Appraisal of Emotions from Resources.- A Little Goat Builds the World - An Interactive Children Story for Tablets.- CHESS: Personalized Storytelling Experiences in Museums.- Unfinished Business - A Transmedia Project.- A Storytelling Game with Metaphor.- K-Sketch: Digital Storytelling with Animation Sketches.- Telling Stories via the Gameplay Reflecting a Player Character´s Inner States.- An Introduction to Game-Mastering: Telling Stories with Tabletop Role-Playing Games.- Managing Informational Interactive Digital Storytelling (IDS) Projects.- Narrative Analysis of Interactive Digital Storytelling.- Future Perspectives for Interactive Digital Narrative.- Story Modeling and Authoring.

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