In a small pilot of one AI pipeline's educational interactive fiction, the dominant free-text criticism was the artificial in-fiction motivation for quiz prompts¶
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q2 i? Six of ten free-text responses criticised why non-player characters would demand technical knowledge, and several explicitly linked this to a drop in perceived coherence. → F. Rogosch 2026
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F. Rogosch 2026¶
F. Rogosch, A. Schrader. (2026). AI-Generated Interactive Fiction for Educational Use: A Pilot Study of Perceived Comprehensibility, Coherence, and Engagement. Proceedings of EDULEARN26 Conference. https://doi.org/10.21125/edulearn.2026.1075
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Inductive single-rater thematic analysis of free-text responses from 10 of 22 participants (STEM higher-education students, staff and graduates) who played scenarios generated by one pipeline configuration from one STEM sub-domain (media technology); the authors present the themes as illustrating their quantitative findings for that configuration, not AI-generated interactive fiction in general. The dominant theme was "the artificial in -fiction motivation for the quiz prompts", named in six of ten responses and linked by several participants to lower coherence.
"The dominant criticism is the artificial in -fiction motivation for the quiz prompts (Theme 2, six of ten responses): participants ask why the non-player characters would demand technical knowledge of the player at all"
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Related Claims¶
- Story-content coherence is the weakest perceived-quality dimension of AI-generated educational interactive fiction in this pilot — related
- Abrupt location or character changes mid-scenario co-occur with the lowest story-content coherence ratings — related
- Self-reported perceived quality is largely decoupled from quiz performance in AI-generated educational interactive fiction — related
- AI-generated interactive-fiction learning scenarios are perceived as narratively clear and of appropriate length by STEM higher-education participants — related
- Engagement with AI-generated educational interactive fiction is marginal, near the neutral midpoint of the scale — related
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In a small pilot of one AI pipeline's educational interactive fiction, the dominant free-text criticism was the artificial in-fiction motivation for quiz prompts |
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In a small pilot of one AI pipeline's educational interactive fiction, the dominant free-text criticism was the artificial in-fiction motivation for quiz prompts |
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