Applications of complex narratives

Abstract

This paper aims at providing an overview on IDNs that address complex issues to gain a better understanding what design decisions have been taken in those prototypes and applications and then to make the resulting knowledge available to practitioners for the representation of complex topics. In our work, complexity refers to a significant societal challenge or current complex phenomenon, such as global warming, globalisation, crime, colonialisation, and so forth. Complexity in this context has been defined as a problem that characterises the behaviour of a system whose components interact in multiple ways and that allows various ways of interpretation and validation of such interactions. The paper corresponds closely to the work undertaken by the COST action INDCOR, especially WG1: Design and development.