Narralive -- Creating and experiencing mobile digital storytelling in cultural heritage

TL;DR

This paper introduces web-based tools for creating and experiencing mobile digital storytelling in cultural heritage, aiming to enhance engagement and facilitate research in this field.

Contribution

It presents the Narralive Storyboard Editor and Mobile Player, innovative tools designed to support creation and research of mobile digital storytelling in cultural heritage contexts.

Findings

Tools successfully applied in various cultural sites

Enhanced understanding of digital storytelling authoring

Positive user engagement and feedback

Abstract

Storytelling has the potential to revolutionize the way we engage with cultural heritage and has been widely recognized as an important direction for attracting and satisfying the audience of museums and other cultural heritage sites. This approach has been investigated in various research projects, but its adoption outside research remains limited due to the challenges inherent in its creation. In this work, we present the web-based Narralive Storyboard Editor and the Narralive Mobile Player app, developed with the objective to assist the creative process and promote research on different aspects of the application of mobile digital storytelling in cultural heritage settings. The tools have been applied and evaluated in a variety of contexts and sites, and the main findings of this process are presented and discussed, concluding in general findings about the authoring of digital storytelling experiences in cultural heritage.