On the final day of the conference, a number of papers were nominated for the best in section award. On-site and on-line voting by participants then followed at the end of which the ones with the highest number of votes were declared in the Closure and Awards Ceremony.

There were three sections: full papers, short papers, and student papers. 

Below are the nominated papers – based on reviewer scores upon submission – with the winning paper highlighted in bold. 

Paper Prizes are sponsored by SpringerLink while Reviewer prizes are sponsored by ARDIN.

Congratulations to all the winners!

BEST FULL PAPER

  • On Neuro-Game Design: A Connectionist Paradigm Shift – Frederic Seraphine (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-12408-1_4)
  • The User Who Sees: Voice Over and Focalisation in Extended Reality (XR) – Kath Dooley (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-12405-0_2)
  • From Testimony to Immersion: The Design and Production of Realidad Helicoide – Víctor Navarro, Gabriela Martinez, Victoria Moriones, Manuel Llorens, Elisa Trotta, Niels Erik Raursø and Luis Emilio Bruni (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-12405-0_13)
  • The GenAI4IDN benchmark 2.0 – AI-assisted Assessment of Generative AI Tools for the Design of Interactive Digital Narratives – Hartmut Koenitz, Jonathan Barbara and Mirjam Palosaari-Eladhari (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-12408-1_14)
  • Understanding the Kaleidoscopic Nature of Interactive Digital Narratives through Repeat Experience – Alex Mitchell (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-12408-1_1)

BEST SHORT PAPER

BEST STUDENT PAPER

  • Combining Experiential and Spatial Data for Immersive AR Narrative Creation: a Phased Methodology – Nirmal Adhikari, Derek Reilly, Brian Lilley, Martha Radice, Susan Fitzgerald and Alex McLean (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-12408-1_8)
  • Level Up with a Story: A Scoping Review on Narratives in Serious Games for Children and Adolescents’ Health – Jiawei Dai and Kenny K N Chow (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-12408-1_10)
  • A Culturally Sensitive Interactive Digital Narrative to Promote Bodily Awareness Among Afghan Women – Pakezea Anwar and Hartmut Koenitz (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-12405-0_9)
  • Designing for Ideological Flexibility: Tracking Perspective Shifts in a Systemic Learning IDN – Breanne Pitt, Wendy Youngblood and Mads Haahr (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-12405-0_14)
  • A Critical View on the Need for Adaptation and AI Services in IDN Authoring – Fredrik Uliana Mölleby, Yin-Heng Allison Chan, Chidalu Ojiako-Chijioke, Nguyen Phuong Hoàng Ngo and Frank Nack (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-12408-1_3)
  • When Worlds Wink Back: Reflexive World-Building and the Epistemology of Player Conspiracy in Honkai: Star Rail – Xinjie Zhao, Jiacheng Tang and So Morikawa (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-12405-0_20)

BEST REVIEWERS

  • Ágnes Karolina Bakk
  • Allen Riley