This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2017, held in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, in November 2017. The 16 revised full papers and 4 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on story design, location and generation, history and learning, games, emotion and personality, posters and demos.

Let's suppose that you are part of a design task force sent to a very different context from the one you're familiar with. Let's also suppose that you have less than two months to gather useful information on the local cultural and social ground as part of filling a gap created by the imminent deployment of new technology in this context. What would you do? This book describes the technique adopted by a team of the Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute (M-ITI) in just such a situation. Giovanni Innella, in collaboration with Franco Papeschi, and Valentina Nisi have reached the North of Burkina Faso, a land where technological innovation is about to lead to big changes in services and in society itself. Convincing ourselves of the possibility of a copy-and-paste process between our world and the red planet of Burkina Faso would probably bring us to the misconception of the African country as a "backward nation." Instead, developing Countries are places where simple and advanced technologies are plugged in without following the Western chronology. Therefore the same technologies can take on very different connotations; technology and culture always mediate each other, after all.

During the 1980s and 1990s, a considerable number of technology and application trends were concerned with location transparency and virtual spaces, overcoming the limitations of the physical space. The first years of the succeeding decade has seen a different trend in technology: the development and popular uptake of mobile media and wireless networks technologies. Real space combined with mobile, wireless, location-aware technology becomes a primary platform for mobile media applications. Because of the difference in the use of space between mobile technologies and their static predecessors, new design principles are defining the poetic and the potential for cultural and narrative augmentation of space. The work described in this book contributes to the exploration of mobile media identifying a specific kind of applications: Location Aware Multimedia Stories (LAMS) and outlining aesthetic principles and guidelines for mobile narrative production end evaluation.