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Megan Mott¹, Bradford Mott², Jonathan Rowe²

¹University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.

Interactive Storytelling : 14Th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2021, Tallinn, Estonia, December 7-10, 2021, Proceedings. Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (14Th : 202

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Interactive narrative technologies for preventive health care offer significant potential for promoting health behavior change in adolescents. By improving adolescents' knowledge, personal efficacy, and self-regulatory skills these technologies hold great promise for realizing positive impacts on adolescent health. These potential benefits are enabled through story-centric learning experiences that provide opportunities for adolescents to practice strategies to reduce risky health behaviors in engaging game-based environments. A distinctive feature of interactive narrative that promotes engagement is players' ability to influence the story through the choices they make. In this paper, we present initial work investigating engagement in an interactive narrative that focuses on reducing adolescents' risky behaviors around alcohol use. Specifically, we consider how the short-term and long-term goals adolescents choose as being important to the protagonist character relates to their engagement with the interactive narrative. Leveraging interaction log data from a pilot study with 20 adolescents, we conduct a cluster-based analysis of the goals players selected. We then examine how engagement differs between the identified clusters. Results indicate that adolescents' choices for the protagonist's short-term and long-term goals can significantly impact their engagement with the interactive narrative.

Keywords:

Alcohol use Health behavior change Interactive narrative

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