Enrichment of story reading with digital media

Abstract

Reading is no more limited to the physicality of the book whether it is screen or paper. Digital media’s potentialities represent an opportunity to leverage a novel reading-experience. We envision that a more joyful and immersive reading-experience can be promoted by interacting with the reading space. Reading can be enriched by controlling digital media infrastructures that contextually react to the reading performance and the narrative. In this paper, we present a prototype and a key scenario, which demonstrate that digital enrichment promises new ways of experiencing a story. Furthermore, we explore the features which characterize this concept and we envision its potential roles.