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Continue reading →: Here are the Hypertexts
This month I gave an invited talk at The Future Of Text event held at Southampton University. FoT has been organised by Frode Hegland (currently a PhD student at the University) for 10 years, and is an interdisciplinary talking shop for anyone who is interested in text in the digital…
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Continue reading →: Life is Strange: One Choice vs. No ChoiceDONTИOD’s Life is Strange, released in 2015, was a surprise indie hit, marrying Telltale style episodic interactive narrative, environmental storytelling, and narrative puzzles, with a nostalgic coming of age tale. It also happened to be a fantastic exploration of teenage relationships, told through the lens of Max and Chloe and their…
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Continue reading →: Games Design Course 2019Another year, another set of fabulous games from our students on the Games Design and Development course at Southampton. The students get together in pairs and have just three weeks to put a game together. We do three of these game sprints, one based around creating a game with a…
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Continue reading →: Games Design Course 2018Each year students on our Games Design and Development course at Southampton produce three games as part of the course. The first is intended to show awareness of core mechanics and tutorial design, the second explore interactive narrative, and the third incorporates some innovation from games (for example, procedural generation,…
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Continue reading →: Persona 5 and Agency MisdirectionI love a good RPG, but as someone who grew up with PC gaming (ok, ok, it might have been Commodore 64 gaming, but who’s counting a few bits) I missed out on the JRPG experience. Final Fantasy was massive on the NES, but I was busy playing the original…
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Continue reading →: ICIDS 2017 – Once and Future StorytellingIn November I attended the International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS’17) on the fantastic island of Madeira. Escaping the British November climate is attraction enough, but the conference was also a great chance to conclude my tour of different interactive narrative communities (the first two being Hypertext and MIX earlier in…
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Continue reading →: People Like You, Like Blog Posts Like ThisIn August I was privileged to deliver a keynote at the 2017 Eurocall conference, an established (and very welcoming) community researching Computer Assisted Language Learning. I gave the mid-conference plenary, and notionally talked about how Web Science has changed our understanding of why we have the Web we have. The…
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Continue reading →: Mix 2017 – Ambient Literature and Feral HypertextsFollowing on from my trip to ACM Hypertext in Prague I just returned from the Mix 2017 conference, held at Bath Spa University’s Newton Park campus in Somerset. Mix has much more of a focus on practitioners and scholars of digital media and was a really interesting comparison, as well…
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Continue reading →: Hypertext 2017 and the Festival of Narrative AutomataI spent the last week in Prague at the 28th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media. As usual it was a pleasure to catch up with friends and colleagues, and Prague is a beautiful city. The conference venue used to be a church, and the vaulted ceilings and huge…
Welcome,
I’m David
I am Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK within the Data, Intelligence, and Society group in ECS. I am also Head of the Education Group within ECS with the goal of improving education across the whole of Electronics and Computer Science in a meaningful, healthy, and sustainable way.
My research roots are in Hypertext, but my current interests are in Interactive Digital Narratives, Mixed Reality Games, and AI Knowledge Interfaces.
David Millard 