This article explores the importance of dialogue, storytelling and collaboration in children’s learning, followed by examples from message boards, webblogs, and instant messaging software (IM) that support learning through storytelling. Children’s verbal and iconic literacy, as well as digital fluency is investigated along with peer collaboration and empowering children’s voices through Interne...

Introduction: This study explores practices employed by a person with aphasia (PWA) and his wife to organize collaborative storytelling in multiparty interaction. We identify that further the PWA’s agency – impact on action while he is telling story together wife. Method: Using conversation analysis (CA), we carried out case of successful sequence involving 39-year-old man anomic during friends...

Storytelling systems are computational systems designed to tell stories. Every story generation system defines its specific knowledge representation for supporting the storytelling process. Thus, there is a shared need amongst all the systems: the knowledge must be expressed unambiguously to avoid inconsistencies. However, when trying to make a comparative assessment between the storytelling sy...

Digital storytelling is a modern expression of the ancient art of storytelling and represents a challenging new tool in the service of education. This paper introduces a novel model for the evaluation of the pedagogical soundness of Educational Digital Storytelling Environments (EDSE). This model is based on modern social and constructivist views of learning and is consisted of sixteen dimensio...

Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by serious difficulties with the social use of language, along with impaired social functioning and ritualistic/repetitive behaviors (American Psychiatric Association in Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders: DSM-5, 5th edn. American Psychiatric Association, Arlington, 2013). While substantial heterogeneity exists in symptom ...

In this article, we define interactive storytelling as a gaming experience where the form and content of the game is customized in real time and tailored to the preferences and needs of the player to maximixe enjoyment. The primary focus of interactive storytelling should not be on the attributes of the technology or characteristics of the medium, such as the AI techniques, planning formalisms,...

Storytelling models are usually constrained to the applications they are implemented in because of the particular characteristics of the data used to define story events and the way those events are linked. In order to develop a more generic model to create storytelling applications, we need to focus the solution not on the data itself, but on the manner this data, in the form of events, is org...

In this paper, we investigate the use of narrative play as a means of encouraging rereading in interactive stories. To explore this, we created a storytelling game in which the reader/player takes on the role of a film director whose objective is to shoot a film in the face of a series of complications. We discuss the iterative design and playtesting of the prototype of our game, and argue that...

This paper presents an empirical study that provides support for the use of enactment in storytelling systems. The overall goal of our research is to facilitate the authoring of stories by children, aged 8 to 10 years. Our findings show that story enactment results in positive effects on the child‘s storytelling, but only through the mediation of imagination during enactment. Only imaginative e...

Everyone has a personal story to tell. These stories are often captured in the photos and video we take to record and share our experiences. This paper examines the support mechanisms used by the Center for Digital Storytelling (CDS) to help everyday people unlock the stories captured in their images and video through the practice of digital storytelling. We conducted a field study of the digit...