DSTE 2012 - International Workshop on Designing Seams for Transmedia Experiences

This one day workshop addresses current needs in the area of interactive broadcasting, scriptwriting, experience design, game design and transmedia storytelling, where experiences are extended across media types, platforms and environments. While interactive content consumption changes the ways in which we experience stories, existing content seldom manages to flow from non- interactive to interactive elements beautifully. In order to deal with potential media-discontinuity it is suggested to create “seamless” designs; however, there is little existing literature that deals with media-discontinuity within transmedia experiences. This workshop intends to bring together practitioners and researchers from various disciplines such as traditional storytellers, scriptwriters, broadcasters, 3D content producers, user experiences designers, game designers and TV producers in order to share experiences, discuss and further define seams in experiences for this emerging interdisciplinary new genre.