Case Study on Using Colours in Constructing Emotions by Interactive Digital Narratives
This work addresses enhancing emotional engagement in digital storytelling for creators and participants, but it is incremental as it builds on existing methods with a specific case study.
The study explored using colors to evoke emotions in Interactive Digital Narratives (IDN) by having synesthetes select colors for eight emotions and apply them to a Cinderella narrative, finding that color choices can support emotional goals in protostories.
This article addresses the possibility of supporting the construction of emotions in the participants of Interactive Digital Narratives (IDN) by means of colours. The article uses goal models for expressing protostories. The core of the article consists of the case study where two colour synes-thetes were asked to choose colours for eight emotions. Thereafter the same synesthetes were asked to choose colours for the emotions that support the attainment of goals in the Cinderella narrative, which serves as an example protostory. The article also discusses the perspectives for applying the method proposed by us to using colours in constructing emotions by IDNs.