Live Hypernarrative and Cybercartography: You Are Here, Now Brian Greenspan English Department & Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture / Carleton University / Ottawa / ON / Canada Claire Dormann Human Oriented Technology Laboratory / Department of Psychology / Carleton University / Ottawa / ON / Canada Se ´bastien Caquard Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre / Department of Geography and Environmental Studies / Carleton University / Ottawa / ON / Canada Chris Eaket Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture / Carleton University / Ottawa / ON / Canada Robert Biddle Human Oriented Technology Laboratory / Department of Psychology / Carleton University / Ottawa / ON / Canada Abstract This article explores some of the potentialities of narration in the context of cybercartography. We have developed a new kind of dynamic or ‘‘live’’ form of hypernarrative, in which the content and structure of stories is determined by live information. This system would ultimately allow the creation of hypermedia narratives capable of mining public databases on the fly in order to customize and integrate narrative material appropriate to the user’s particular temporal and geospatial context. Unlike other forms of hypermedia, a live hypertext narrative can actually be different every time it is read. More akin to an improvised performance than to a recorded one, a live hypertext changes depending on where and when it is accessed, and on what is happening in the world and on the Web. Live hypertext thus presents a new development in the history of writing that challenges our inherited notions of the stability, fixity, and even authority of printed text. The role of live data and the spatial and temporal aspects of the data suggest strong connections to cybercartographic environments. Not only are the same data sets relevant to both hypernarrative and cybercartography, but the nature of the hypernarrative shows new possibilities for cartographic environments. In particular, narrative and end-user navigation in a story show new ways of involving users, a key principle of cybercartography. Keywords: hypernarrative, cybercartography, adaptive hypertext, context awareness, geo-location Re ´sume ´ L’article explore certaines possibilite ´s qu’offre la narration dans le contexte de la cybercartographie. Les auteurs ont mis au point une nouvelle sorte d’hypernarration dynamique ou «re ´elle», dans laquelle le contenu et la structure des re ´cits sont de ´termine ´s par des renseignements re ´els. Ce syste `me permettrait de cre ´er un type de narration hyperme ´dia cartographica (volume 41, issue 1) 35 http://www.utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/L42H-7P81-NMX0-5540 - Friday, June 03, 2016 9:33:16 AM - IP Address:146.185.205.62