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Required Books

Janet Murray, Inventing the Medium (MIT Press), eBook access
Don Norman, The Design of Everyday Things

Week #11

Bryan Alexander, The New Digital Storytelling, “The First Wave of Digital Storytelling”, pp. 17-28
Koenitz et al., IDN, “A Concise History of Interactive Digital Narrative”, pp. 11-21

Week #10

Janet Murray, Inventing the Medium, “Computational Strategies of Representation”, pp. 107-132

Week #8

Soke Dinkla, The History of the Interface in Interactive Art, pp. 1-7
Myron Krueger, Responsive Environments, pp. 1-12

Week #7

Kevin Kelly, The Inevitable, Chapter 8, “Remixing”, pp. 193-210

Week #6

Kevin Kelly, The Inevitable, Chapter 9, “Interacting”, pp. 211-236

Week #5

Lev Manovich, The Language of New Media, “The Interface”, pp. 62-115
Jim Campbell, Delusions of Dialogue: Control and Choice in Interactive Art, pp. 133-136

Week #4

Jonathan Gottschall, The Storytelling Animal, “The Future of Story”, pp. 177-199
Linn Johansson, “Storytelling Approaches to UX Design”, pp. 1-13

Week #2

Lev Manovich, The Language of New Media, “What is New Media”, pp. 18-61 
Saul Greenberg, et al., “The Narrative Storyboard : Telling a story about use and context over time” 

Week #1

Janet Murray, Inventing the Medium, “Affordances of the Digital Medium”, pp. 51-85 
Don Norman, The Design of Everyday Things, “Fundamental Principles of Interactivity”, pp. 10-36
Janet Murray, Inventing the Medium, “Design in an Evolving Medium”, pp. 25-49

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