With the explosion of the mobile internet market, location-based-storytelling is a storytelling method which is based on scavenger hunts, geocaching, using location-based-services.
In our session at stART11 conference in Duisburg 2011 we made a storytour through Duisburg Ruhrort, explained afterwards how we did it and what else is possible. This is the english version of our presentation.
2. Thesis 7
Location based storytelling
The experiencer becomes the vehicle of
fiction by visiting real places where parts
of the story-universe unfold.
Transmedia Manifest
4. Location-Based-Storytelling
So far known only as LBS (Location Based Services)
"A location-based service, or LBS, is any information,
entertainment, or social media service that is available on a
mobile device, and makes use of geographical position. Position
is determined by GPS, A-GPS, or Wi-Fi/cell tower triangulation"
(Quelle)
5. Location-Based-Storytelling
LBSt (Location Based Storytelling)
Experiencer (user/reader/... more than a consumer) becomes
the vehicle of a story:
movement necessary
story unfolds itself at real places, connected to the story-
universe
Plotpoint
The
Experiencer End
8. Experience
Immersion
Immersion is a kind of flow:
"Immersion is the state of consciousness where an
immersant's awareness of physical self is diminished or lost
be being surrounded in an engrossing total environment;
often artificial" (Wikipedia)
10. Experience
Gamification
"Gamification is the use of game design techniques and
mechanics" in non-game environments to engage and activate
people for fun, loyalty, ... (Gamification.org)
Basic game mechanics: badges, rankings, virtual
currencies/goods, progress bars, ... (Wikipedia)
Realität STORY-LAYER Fiktion