System Dynamics as Story Engine for Interactive Video

This paper will discuss visualization of system dynamic models, particularly the use of video, as a method for designing interactive multimedia learning tools. Although traditional media productions may capture elements of natural and social development as well as the underlying causal structure, such productions do not often match well the complexity of this structure and typically does not explain well how such a structure produces the development observed. Therefore, we design interactive multimedia environments that allow for the presentation of the relationship between the underlying structure and the resulting behaviour of natural and social systems in the form of narratives produced and presented on demand. Using video in the visualization of simulation models raises practical and theoretical questions such as: How is the immediacy of a simulation game affected when pre-recorded video of a past event is integrated, and could this be done without limiting the openness of the simulation? Departing from prototype examples, these are questions to be explored in this paper.

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