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<p> Call for Book Chapters Proposals</p>
<p> <span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>THE SERIOUS STORYTELLING HANDBOOK</strong></span></p>
<p> <em>Storytelling outside the Entertainment Context to Engage, Enlighten,<br />
and Explain in Serious Games, Data Storytelling, User-Experience,<br />
AI, Health, eLearning, Science, Digital Media, and<br />
Business/Management</em></p>
<p>The handbook is transdisciplinary and should address technology, human, storytelling, and<br />
business issues in the fields of entertainment computation, human-computer-interaction,<br />
media technology and design, information systems research, multimedia, data science,<br />
digital games, eLearning, eHealth, and digital media scholars.</p>
<p> Artur Lugmayr, Helmut Hlavacs, and Calkin Suero Montero (Eds.)<br />
Published by Chapman&Hall/CRC Taylor&Francis Group</p>
<p> <br />
The book will be the pilot book for the new Series on Emerging Media Technology and<br />
User-Experience Computation, published by Chapman&Hall/CRC Taylor&Francis Group.</p>
<p><strong>Upcoming Deadline:</strong> June 30th 2018 - Expression of Interest and/or Final Chapters<br />
<strong>Contact:</strong> <a href="mailto:artur.lugmayr@artur-lugmayr.com?subject=Serious%20Storytelling%20Book">artur.lugmayr@artur-lugmayr.com</a> <br />
<strong>Book Website:</strong> <a href="http://www.artur-lugmayr.com/crc-emu-series/serious-storytelling/">http://www.artur-lugmayr.com/crc-emu-series/serious-storytelling/ </a><br />
<strong>Submission System:</strong> <a href="http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/Submissions/2017Story/">http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/Submissions/2017Story/</a><br />
<strong>Newsletter:</strong> <a href="http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/phplist/?p=subscribe">http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/phplist/?p=subscribe </a></p>
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<p><em>“Storytelling outside the context of entertainment, where the narration <br />
progresses as a sequence of patterns impressive in quality, relates to a <br />
serious context, and is a matter of thoughtful process.”</em><br />
Serious storytelling – a First Definition and Review<br />
A. Lugmayr, E. Sutinen, J. Suhonen, C. Sedano, H. Hlavacs, C. Montero<br />
Multimedia Tools and Applications 76(14),pp. 15707-15733, 2016</p>
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In human culture, storytelling has a long tradition. The reasons why stories have been told<br />
are manifold: to entertain, to transfer knowledge between generations, to keep cultural<br />
heritage, or to warn others of dangers. With the emergence of the digitalization of media<br />
many new possibilities to tell stories emerged in serious and non-entertainment contexts.<br />
A very simple example is the idea of serious gaming – thus digital games without primarily<br />
an entertainment purpose. Within this handbook, we generalize the approach of serious<br />
games, on other genres of digital storytelling, and call for handbook typical contributions<br />
which introduce „serious storytelling: storytelling with a purpose beyond entertainment“ as<br />
new approach. We seek for handbook alike contributions, reviews of existing application<br />
areas, established theories and methods, fundamental concepts, ground breaking<br />
research results in a transdisciplinary approach. The handbook shall range across<br />
domains, and illustrate storytelling outside an entertainment context in e.g. data<br />
science, artificial intelligence, well-being and health, medicine, psychology, education,<br />
ethical problem solving, eLeadership, and business/management, robotics, storytelling in<br />
deep learning and big data, qualitative journalism, serious games, storytelling in<br />
simulations, HCI research and storytelling, VR/AR training, user-experience studies, and<br />
online communication. If you want to learn more about the idea of serious storytelling,<br />
please consult the journal article that has been introducing this new idea: A. Lugmayr, E.<br />
Sutinen, J. Suhonen, C. Sedano, H. Hlavacs, C. Montero, Serious storytelling – a First<br />
Definition and Review, Multimedia Tools and Applications 76(14),pp. 15707-15733, 2016.</p>
<p><strong>THEMES AND TOPICS</strong></p>
<p>The handbook is suited for people with interest in entertainment computation, human-<br />
computer-interaction, media technology and design, information systems research,<br />
multimedia, data science, digital games, eLearning, eHealth, new media scholars, and<br />
visualisation.</p>
<p>• Storytelling in/for data science, AI, Big Data, and deep learning<br />
• Storytelling in HCI and User-Experience research<br />
• Human-Computer-Interaction supporting serious storytelling<br />
• Animation, graphics, 3D, VR, and AR storytelling<br />
• Serious storytelling in business, leadership, and law<br />
• Education and serious storytelling<br />
• Digital forensics and storytelling<br />
• Storytelling and social media<br />
• Anthropological perspectives of serious storytelling<br />
• Storytelling as part of the innovation process<br />
• Medicine, wellness, and therapy and storytelling<br />
• Storytelling in science, and scientific PR and publishing<br />
• Automated generation of stories<br />
• New computational paradigms (e.g. quantum computing) in storytelling<br />
• Narrative form, structure, and expression<br />
• Media technology, multimedia, and entertainment computation<br />
• Theories, methods, frameworks, and concepts<br />
• Your idea?</p>
<p><strong>CONTRIBUTIONS</strong></p>
<p>We seek for full research papers, literature surveys, technical solutions, surveys of the<br />
field, theory of storytelling, essays, state of the art descriptions, best practices in real life<br />
projects, and point of views and critique of the topic. As it’s a handbook, contributions not<br />
essentially need to be new, we also seek for proofed concepts, methods, existing projects,<br />
and ideas that contribute to a handbook type of book.</p>
<p>We would like to focus on shaping a NOVEL research direction, and define Digital Serious<br />
Storytelling as a new research pathway. Therefore, we are seeking for establishing theory.<br />
As we would like to have a tightly controlled editing process, we will mix authors of<br />
different contributions as well as we will step into the chapter authoring processes as it is<br />
required to get a red line through the book. We would not like to have an edited book<br />
consisting of a set of loosely connected chapters. We want to create a reference book,<br />
which will have impact, and act as teaching reference.</p>
<p><strong>SUBMISSION DEADLINES</strong><br />
• <strong>June 30th 2018:</strong> Expression of Interest and Intend to Submit a Chapter (or Final Chapters)<br />
• <strong> July 30th 2018</strong>: Invitation of a Selected set of Expression of Interests as Final Full Chapter<br />
• <strong>Sept. 30th 2018:</strong> Final Full Chapters (also authors who did not submit an expression of interest can contribute)<br />
• <strong>Nov. 30th 2018:</strong> Review Results to Authors after (Double Blinded Review)<br />
• <strong> Jan., 15th 2019:</strong> Final Chapters Due</p>
<p><strong>SUBMISSION GUIDELINES</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Please format your submission according the guidelines in:<br />
<a href="http://https://www.crcpress.com/assets/images/crc/T%26F%20Text%20Preparation%20Instructions_Disk_Word_v1_1.pdf">https://www.crcpress.com/assets/images/crc/T%26F%20Text%20Preparation%20Instructions_Disk_Word_v1_1.pdf </a><br />
(Microsoft Word) or <a href="https://www.crcpress.com/assets/images/crc/T%26F%20Text%20Preparation%20Instructions_Disk_Latex_v1_1.pdf">https://www.crcpress.com/assets/images/crc/T%26F%20Text%20Preparation%20Instructions_Disk_Latex_v1_1.pdf </a>(LaTeX)</li>
<li>Expressions of interests should contain title, author information, short one<br />
sentence pitch of the proposed chapter, perspective of the chapter<br />
(technical, business, computer science, HCI, new media, data science....),<br />
author short bios, author pictures, 1500 word description of the contribution,<br />
own research publication contributing the final book chapters, and list of<br />
references to be considered for the final contribution.</li>
<li>Authors are encouraging to submit final chapters as their expression of<br />
interest, and these efforts will be rewarded and help us to decide upon the<br />
final accepted chapters. However, we also fully consider thoroughly written<br />
expression of interests, which are contributing directly to the book, and will<br />
invite a selected set of high quality contributions to submit a final full chapter.<br />
Authors who did not submit an expression of interest, are encouraged to<br />
submit a final chapter at the final chapter due date.</li>
<li>We only accept submissions through the submission system. If you have<br />
multiple files (e.g. word document, pdf, and multiple figures) to submit,<br />
please upload ALL THE FILLES AS A .ZIP ARCHIEVE to the submission<br />
system.</li>
<li>The submission system can be found on:<br />
<a href="http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/Submissions/2017Story/">www.ambientmediaassociation.org/Submissions/2017Story/</a></li>
</ul>
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<strong>ABOUT THE SERIES</strong></p>
<p>The book will be published as part of a new series. The Chapman & Hall/CRC Emerging<br />
Media and User-Experience Computation Series presents cross-disciplinary research,<br />
case studies, and insights into media technology, media business, and media design. The<br />
series will cover many topics of interest, including, but not limited to: advancements in<br />
media technology, animation, media design, music, robotics, video, content production,<br />
information systems, content systems, interactive media, visual effects, asset<br />
management, design approaches, user-experience, quality of experience, simulation,<br />
serious games, digital games, augmented reality, and virtual reality. The series is cross-<br />
disciplinary, and seeks contributions from computer science, media design, human-<br />
computer-interaction, psychology, (mass)-communication, information systems, and<br />
business viewpoints. </p>
<p>If you are considering a separate book proposal for the series, please do not hesitate to<br />
contact the series editor and consult the series website on <a href="http://emu.artur-lugmayr.com">http://emu.artur-lugmayr.com</a>.</p>
<p>The book will be the pilot book for the new Series on Emerging Media Technology and<br />
User-Experience Computation, published by Chapman&Hall/CRC Taylor&Francis Group. If<br />
you would like to contribute to the series with an own book chapter proposal, please<br />
consult the series website: <a href="http://emu.artur-lugmayr.com.">http://emu.artur-lugmayr.com. </a><br />
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