Narralive -- Creating and experiencing mobile digital storytelling in cultural heritage
This work addresses the limited adoption of digital storytelling in cultural heritage by providing tools to assist creators, though it is incremental as it builds on existing research in the field.
The authors tackled the challenge of creating mobile digital storytelling for cultural heritage by developing the Narralive Storyboard Editor and Mobile Player app, which were applied and evaluated across various contexts to derive general findings on authoring such experiences.
Storytelling has the potential to revolutionize the way we engage with cultural heritage and has been widely recognized as an important direction for attracting and satisfying the audience of museums and other cultural heritage sites. This approach has been investigated in various research projects, but its adoption outside research remains limited due to the challenges inherent in its creation. In this work, we present the web-based Narralive Storyboard Editor and the Narralive Mobile Player app, developed with the objective to assist the creative process and promote research on different aspects of the application of mobile digital storytelling in cultural heritage settings. The tools have been applied and evaluated in a variety of contexts and sites, and the main findings of this process are presented and discussed, concluding in general findings about the authoring of digital storytelling experiences in cultural heritage.