ICIDS

10/12/2025

The best paper award nominees and winners are now up on the website: https://icids2025.ardin.online/conference/awards

Congratulations to

Best full paper award:
From Testimony to Immersion: The Design and Production of Realidad Helicoide – Víctor Navarro, Gabriela Martinez, Victoria Moriones, Manuel Llorens, Elisa Trotta, Niels Erik Raursø and Luis Emilio Bruni
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-12405-0_13

Best short paper award:
What We Talk About When We Talk About Insights from Interactive Digital Narratives – Joshua A Fisher
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-12408-1_5

Best student paper award:
A Culturally Sensitive Interactive Digital Narrative to Promote Bodily Awareness Among Afghan Women – Pakezea Anwar and Hartmut Koenitz
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-12405-0_9

Best full paper nominees:

On Neuro-Game Design: A Connectionist Paradigm Shift – Frederic Seraphine
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-12408-1_4

The User Who Sees: Voice Over and Focalisation in Extended Reality (XR) – Kath Dooley
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-12405-0_2

The GenAI4IDN benchmark 2.0 – AI-assisted Assessment of Generative AI Tools for the Design of Interactive Digital Narratives – Hartmut Koenitz, Jonathan Barbara and Mirjam Palosaari-Eladhari
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-12408-1_14

Understanding the Kaleidoscopic Nature of Interactive Digital Narratives through Repeat Experience – Alex Mitchell
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-12408-1_1

Best short paper award nominees:

Complementing historical interpretation narratives with conceptual maps – Vincenzo Lombardo, Federico Favole, Alessio Fiore, Aurora Laurenti, Luigi Provero and Gelsomina Spione
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-12405-0_18

Creative Practice as Research: Reenacting Trauma and Haptic Visuality Approach in Cinematic Virtual Reality Documentary – The Road to Yesterday – Ningning Song
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-12405-0_19

Best student paper award nominees:

Combining Experiential and Spatial Data for Immersive AR Narrative Creation: a Phased Methodology – Nirmal Adhikari, Derek Reilly, Brian Lilley, Martha Radice, Susan Fitzgerald and Alex McLean (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-12408-1_8)
Level Up with a Story: A Scoping Review on Narratives in Serious Games for Children and Adolescents’ Health – Jiawei Dai and Kenny K N Chow
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-12408-1_10

Designing for Ideological Flexibility: Tracking Perspective Shifts in a Systemic Learning IDN – Breanne Pitt, Wendy Youngblood and Mads Haahr (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-12405-0_14)
A Critical View on the Need for Adaptation and AI Services in IDN Authoring – Fredrik Uliana Mölleby, Yin-Heng Allison Chan, Chidalu Ojiako-Chijioke, Nguyen Phuong Hoàng Ngo and Frank Nack
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-12408-1_3

When Worlds Wink Back: Reflexive World-Building and the Epistemology of Player Conspiracy in Honkai: Star Rail – Xinjie Zhao, Jiacheng Tang and So Morikawa
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-12405-0_20

ICIDS 2025 - 2025 Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling

09/12/2025

Mark your calendars:

ICIDS 2026 will be in Bangkok, November 30-December 4, 2026

Website and more info in the new year

07/12/2025

04/12/2025

The International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS) 2025 is being held between 1 and 5 December at the Radisson Blu Hotel in St Julian’s. GamingMalta is supporting the event through an art exhibition now open at the Malta Chamber of Commerce in Valletta.

Visitors can meet researchers, creators, and practitioners shaping interactive storytelling.
The event offers chances for productive encounters and professional exchanges across the immersive-tech space.

This partnership supports Malta’s long-term goals for digital growth and learning set out in Vision 2050. It encourages new skills, promotes creative use of technology, and helps build a community ready for future opportunities in education and digital media.

Ekonomija | Silvio Schembri | Envision 2050

02/12/2025

ICIDS 2025 is livestreaming on YouTube!

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1Azu34CKc9/

22/11/2025

KALEIDOSCOPIC MACHINES
IN AN ERA OF ACCELERATED ENTANGLEMENTS

An Interactive Digital Art Exhibition as part of the 18th ICIDS Conference

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/caDERaghMJE

🎮 ICIDS 2025 Art Exhibition
🎧 25 Interactive Artworks
🏦 The Malta Chamber of Commerce, Republic Str, Valletta
📅 3 - 4 December 2025
⏱️ 09:00h - 19:00h

Sponsored by http://GamingMalta.org

Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.

21/11/2025

We can already say that will be the largest ever in terms of participants.

Registration is still open, and the conference is fully hybrid (and has been since 2021), so you can still participate.

And yes, there are different registration tiers to acknowledge different income levels around the world.

https://icids2025.ardin.online/registration

18/09/2025

🚨📢 Calling all PhD students!

The 3rd ARDIN Emerging Scholars Academy is happening at the ICIDS 2025 Doctoral Consortium 🎓✨
📍 Malta
🗓️ 1 December 2025

This is your chance to share your research, connect with mentors, and join an inspiring community of scholars in Interactive Digital Storytelling 🌍📖💡

📝 Deadline for submissions: Midnight (AoE) of 30 September 2025 ⏰
👉 Register now: http://icids2025.ardin.online/dc

Don’t miss this opportunity to take your PhD journey to the next level! 🚀🎉

ICIDS 2025 - 2025 Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling

17/09/2025

📬 Registration for the 18th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling in 🇲🇹 Malta, Europe is now OPEN!

🛤️ Academic tracks
🖥️ Art Exhibition
👥 Workshops
🗞️ Late Breaking Works
🛜 Fully Hybrid

🐦Catch the early bird registration before the October deadline!

✍️ Register now at

ICIDS 2025 - 2025 Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling

13/08/2025

The call for the 3rd ARDIN Emerging Scholars Academy, the ICIDS 2025 full day doctoral consortium is now open. Deadline is September 30.

This is a great opportunity for PhD students to present their research in areas related to topics of the ICIDS conference. Participants will receive expert feedback on their current research and will have opportunities to discuss their work with peers and mentors. In addition, they will receive guidance on future research directions and career planning.

This is a full-day event on 1st December 2025 to have ample time for presentations, communal feedback, individual discussions with mentors, and discussions about career development.

The event is intended for students who have articulated a research proposal and can point to some initial results. The work should still be in progress and malleable enough to take advantage of the feedback.

Read more on the website. A limited amount of scholarships are available.

ICIDS 2025 - 2025 Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling