Annas PhD dissertation concerns the examination of the digital substrate which incorporates
writing as a means of narration. Contemporary possibilities of writing in the threedimensional
digital environment are investigated: in spaces that enhance the real view
or in three-dimensional immersive spaces. It is developed through a comparative study
of the evolution of the writing surface, and of the fundamental properties that people use
in order to imprint text strings in each new “mechanism”. Several structures that can be
defined by the writer upon a certain surface are noted, which in turn impose respective
ways of reading. Significant features in the “writer-reader-substrate” relation are
identified and analysed, within a three-dimensional digital environment, such as the
direction of characters, legibility and perspective, scale, motion, the three-dimensional
text-box and the physical involvement required in the reading process. The integration
of the above features in experimental studies of different cases of writing, in discrete
digital environments, developed specifically for the aim of this study, highlighted the
need for the definition of an integrated new mechanism for text processing in the threedimensional
space, which will use its special features as a whole. It is about a
contemporary writing and reading tool, which will fully integrate both the writer and the
reader, through immersion, creating a three-dimensional narrative environment. This
dissertation does not exhaustively investigate the full range of possibilities, but opens up
a field for future further research and experimentation towards several fields related
with advanced ways of putting words in written form.
Available online (Greek) at: https://phdtheses.ekt.gr/eadd/handle/10442/55129