Terms starting witha

# Affordances

Possible interactions that a tool, medium, or environment offers to its users, shaping the way content can be created, experienced, and understood

# Aleatory

Elements of a work that are left to chance, often relying on randomization algorithms to affect the narrative or poetic outcome

# Algorithmic Narrativity

The combination of the human ability to understand experience through narrative with the power of the computer to process and generate data that results in the development, modification, and distribution of narratives

# Alternate Reality Game (ARG)

Interactive narrative that uses the real world as a platform, often involving multiple media and game elements, to deliver a story that can be influenced by players' actions

# Anamorphosis

A distorted projection or perspective requiring the viewer to use special devices or occupy a specific vantage point to reconstitute the intended image or message

# Appropriation

Use of pre-existing media or texts within a new work, often to critique, comment upon, or pay homage to the original source material

# Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Simulation of human intelligence processes by computer systems, to create or interpret content in innovative and sometimes literary ways

# Augmented Reality (AR)

Technology that superimposes computer-generated enhancements atop an existing reality, enriching the user's perception of the real world with digital information and media

# Authoring Software

Tools for creators to design, develop, and publish interactive or multimedia stories without the need for advanced programming knowledge

# Autopoiesis

Aesthetic content and conceptual structures generated from internal, self-replicating and reflective processes, often constructed partially by Artificial Intelligence

# Avatar

Digital representation of a user or character within a virtual environment, allowing for interaction and identification within digital narratives or online spaces