What is it about?
After having read James Russell's Dragon Defenders books to our kids we wanted to explore the AR elements to see how they worked so well as a part of these stories. Our analysis identified the steps taken to smoothly bring the reader from book to device and back again and we coined the term Closed Loop Interface Transitioning to describe it.
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Why is it important?
Closed Loop Interface Transitioning is useful for AR fiction but, more importantly, it may have some more serious applications in the commercial world where people are trying to get an audience to switch between different devices for different reasons. It may have applications in anything from training and induction, to augmented reality assisted surgery or mechanical development.
Perspectives
I loved reading these books to my kids. It was great to get under the hood a little and see where the transitions had been done really well and why these books seemed so much more effective than other AR kids titles. It'd be great to see this research used to develop more interactive stories for young readers.
Matt Halliday
Auckland University of Technology
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This page is a summary of: The dragon’s AR: Narrative augmentation in Russell’s The Dragon Defenders, Journal of Pervasive Media, August 2023, Intellect,
DOI: 10.1386/jpm_00007_1.
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