TY - GEN
T1 - Digital Interactive Narrative Tools for Facilitating Communication with Children During Counseling
T2 - International Conference in Interactive Storytelling (ICIDS 2012)
AU - Baceviciute, Sarune
AU - Albæk, Katharina R.R.
AU - Arsovski, Aleksandar
AU - Bruni, Luis Emilio
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - In this article we explore the means by which state-of-the-art knowledge on children counseling techniques can be combined with digital interactive narrative tools to facilitate communication with children during counseling sessions. The field of “narrative play therapy” could profit from the reconciliation between free-play and narratives afforded by interactive digital tools in order to promote children‟s engagement. We present a digital interactive narrative application integrated with a “step-by-step” guide to the counselor, which could be adapted to many different situations and contexts where an adult professional counselor (or therapists) needs to establish a trustful and efficient communication with children. Furthermore, the tool was specifically customized to pediatric audiology counseling. Our evaluation shows that the tool maintains the centrality of the child‟s perspective thanks to the emergent interactive storytelling process. At the same time the counselor is given the means for obtaining valuable information for guiding and structuring the therapeutic process.
AB - In this article we explore the means by which state-of-the-art knowledge on children counseling techniques can be combined with digital interactive narrative tools to facilitate communication with children during counseling sessions. The field of “narrative play therapy” could profit from the reconciliation between free-play and narratives afforded by interactive digital tools in order to promote children‟s engagement. We present a digital interactive narrative application integrated with a “step-by-step” guide to the counselor, which could be adapted to many different situations and contexts where an adult professional counselor (or therapists) needs to establish a trustful and efficient communication with children. Furthermore, the tool was specifically customized to pediatric audiology counseling. Our evaluation shows that the tool maintains the centrality of the child‟s perspective thanks to the emergent interactive storytelling process. At the same time the counselor is given the means for obtaining valuable information for guiding and structuring the therapeutic process.
KW - Digital Interactive Storytelling
KW - Interactive Narratives
KW - Emergent Narratives
KW - Narrative Play Therapy
KW - Children‟s Counseling
KW - Pediatric Audiology Counseling
KW - Digital Tools in Counseling
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84868098926&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-34851-8_5
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-34851-8_5
M3 - Article in proceeding
VL - 7648
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
SP - 48
EP - 59
BT - Interactive Storytelling
PB - Springer
Y2 - 12 November 2012 through 15 November 2012
ER -