Janet Murray is the author of Hamlet On The Holodeck:: The Future of Narrative and Cyberspace (The Free Press, 1997). She is a Senior Research Scientist in the Center for Educational Computing Initiatives at MIT. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Harvard and teaches interactive fiction writing in MIT's Film and Media Studies program.

Janet H. Murray

On my screen today, I'd begin with with Abbe Don's Bubbe's Back Porch. A great example of a participatory story archive.

Freedom Baird's Mass Transit

One of the best student projects done for my own class, though the navigation design was never completely finished.

The Last Express (Broderbund)

CD-ROM game. A participatory version of the Orient Express with a densely populated world and a nice range of possible interactions.

Crime scene"

A clever use of the medium, though the latest case was too lurid for my taste.

John Updike's collaborative story

...demonstrates how ready audiences are to use shared storytelling conventions to make collaborative fictions.

Erin's Bar

Eliza's latest grand-daughter, designed by Stanford computer scientist Barbara Hayes-Roth.