Interactive Storytelling Notes

Narrative Visualizations - Jeff Heer - 2010:

"Visualizations themselves may incorporate a variety of media, including text, images and video, and can also be interactive, enabling stories whose telling relies as much on the reader as on the author."

"Note that narrative messaging techniques are more frequently used in Slideshows and Videos, as these genres put more effort into communicating the narrative intended by the author. This may explain why qualitatively these visualizations feel more like “stories” and less like data tools."

"Both messaging and interactivity can be layered on top of these genres. Messaging is the use of text to provide observations and explanations about the images. Typically this text takes familiar forms such as headlines, captions, labels, and annotations. For some visualizations, messaging can also include audio. "

"There are many possible types and degrees of interactivity, though common forms in narrative visualization include navigation buttons, hover highlighting, hover details-on-demand, filtering, searching, drill-down, zooming, and time sliders. "