From trauma to amnesia to senior moments, memory has been a major plot line in films since the 1942 classic, Random Harvest. John Seamon, an author and professor of psychology whose research includes how a camera aids memory and the impact of storytelling on memory, has shifted his lens to focus on how memory has been portrayed in one of the world's most beloved art forms.

We are developing design principles applying tangible interfaces to storytelling. This paper describes an underlying philosophy and three resultant designs for computer-mediated toys, exploring how the merging of physical objects with computer technology can enhance children’s storytelling. Each prototype aims to develop a specific set of both oral and written storytelling skills, as well as co...

Storytelling serves many different social functions, e.g. stories are used to persuade, share troubles, establish shared values, learn social behaviors, and entertain. Moreover, stories are often told conversationally through dialog, and previous work suggests that information provided dialogically is more engaging than when provided in monolog. In this paper, we present algorithms for converti...

Emotional intelligence is the ability to control and manage emotions. Bashfulness is an emotional characteristic that could lead to social isolation and impact children’s performance across their developmental years. Learning social skills could help shy students overcome this problem. It has been hypothesized that such skills can be taught through storytelling, and hence, improve children’s em...

The use of storytelling as a knowledge elicitation tool has attracted much attention in recent years, yet there is limited literature on how to illicit or stimulate the story. The challenge is to find appropriate research instruments that stimulate storytelling and morph vocalised individual narratives into multifaceted stories that provide an insight into the emotions, politics and ‘life’ of o...

We reflect on the methods, activities and perspectives we used to situate digital storytelling in two rural African communities in South Africa and Kenya. We demonstrate how in-depth ethnography in a village in the Eastern Cape of South Africa and a design workshop involving participants from that village allowed us to design a prototype mobile digital storytelling system suited to the needs of...