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Interactivity

Interactivity is more than the extent or frequency to which the player can make inputs to the system. Rather, I am interested here in the degree to which the player can exert agency by bringing about significant and meaningful changes in the system. The player's world-level agency is important, as this represents the degree to which the player can successfully move her character through the story-world, manipulate objects, or affect other characters. However, in determining the success of reincorporation, the player's story-level agency--the degree to which her actions significantly impact the later events of the story--is of even greater interest.

The system measures of story-level agency include:

The variety of the actions used, which illustrates how explorative or varied the player's choices were.
The average import of actions, which indicates how active the player was in general at the story level.
The ratio of actions of high import to total events, which indicates the frequency that the player contributed significantly to the story.

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