Exploring interactive narrative for science communication: a design approach using interactive documentary as a proposal XploreDesign4SciComm

• Autor(a) principal: Parreira, Maria João Horta
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/47435
• topic: Comunicação de Ciência; Design,; Botanical gardens; Citizenship; Education; Immersive journalism; Interactive documentary; Science communication; Transdisciplinarity; Cidadania; Comunicação de ciência; Design; Documentário interactivo; Educação; Jornalismo imersivo; Transdisciplinaridade; Jardins botânicos

This study explores interactive narrative, manifested through multimodality in the format of the interactive documentary (i-doc), as a proposal to science communication, in a specific context. The oldest botanical garden in Portugal celebrates, in 2018, 250 years of existence and is the scenario for that proposal. This choice was preponderant because the subject to be communicated is in the ambit of Botany and Biodiversity Conservation and point out the importance of citizenship in the mobilization of efforts that can minimize the complex problems and challenges associated with those fields. In science communication the format of the interactive documentary has been little explored and in this sense this work has been developed to produce an original empirical contribution that opens the way to new approaches in this sense. 360 video, virtual reality and augmented reality can be explored and remixed with traditional media trying to promote more engagement of people with Botany and related sciences. Transdisciplinarity is a key component of this project that aims to explore Design, not only in the several perspectives as a discipline, but also as a scientific area of extreme utility and that enables to build bridges between different areas. Articulating storytelling, gaming and multimodality, one prototype was produced and its respective proof of concept was carried out in two classes: Biology and Geology students from regular secondary school and Journalism students from university level, and the respective teachers were involved in the process. Action-research was applied in an original way that intends to add value to practical case studies, and plan targeted actions. Bibliographic review, questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, participation observation and focus group were the used techniques to test and evaluate the inherent project concept. The results obtained are favorable to the usefulness and viability of the idea and it will be interesting to investigate in a more systematic way, to better understand opportunities in the intersection between science, technology and art. Emotions, cognition, and human-centered design are very interesting fields to investigate. The author argues that i-doc rather than being only a media or digital media channel, which represents reality, can be interpreted as a builder and enabler of knowledge. Besides i-doc can facilitate the teaching and understanding of the curricular contents, the exploitation of i-doc can be also a great method to develop innovative contents that promote a differentiating journalism and that reinforce its social function, as this project proposed in environmental education. Another point of view suggested by the author, is that UX Design is essential to the planning of communicative relations between people, digital objects and real life. At the present, with all the technological evolutions established more and more faster, will be important to understand better how users interact, immerse and participate with those evolutions. Digital and physical interactions are both essential, and the author intends to interconnect them, creating one digital object about Ajuda botanical garden, that may promote the interest of users to visit it, physically, and be more awareness for its importance.