Foreword from the Association for Research in Digital Interactive Narratives Graduate Research Committee

Brown, S. A., Arbo, J., Colarieti, M., Hu, S., Mattey, J., Brata Roy, S., & Serbanescu, A. (2025)

Journal of Interactive Narrative

https://doi.org/10.62937/JIN.2025.GRAD.2238

The inaugural Future Directions in Interactive Digital Narratives (FIDN) Student Research Symposium, convened virtually on June 7, 2025 by the Association for Research in Digital Interactive Narratives (ARDIN) Graduate Research Committee, provided a dedicated venue for emerging scholars to articulate near-term trajectories for interactive digital narratives (IDNs). Eight Master’s and doctoral students and early-career researchers presented work and received feedback from established scholars, fostering a collaborative exchange across the global community. Following the event, presenters developed extended abstracts, collected here as a record of the symposium and signals of anticipated directions for the field; these abstracts were not peer-reviewed.