Digital Storytelling System Research Articles

Putting “First Peoples” First: Participatory Design of a Digital Storytelling System for Inuvialuit Communities

ABSTRACTThis poster presents a community‐focused participatory design methodology as a basis for developing a digital storytelling system for the Inuvialuit Settlement Region in Canada's Western Arctic. It provides an overview of the various stages of digital storytelling system prototype design informed by an Inuvialuit elder's storytelling gathering and a community experience open house. Among the prototype redesign ideas are empathy maps we are using to allow us to connect stories with designs and community needs in mind.

Storytelling based on generative AI to promote the inclusion of people with disabilities

This article presents the comprehensive design and evaluation of a digital storytelling system tailored forchildren aged 4 to 6 in Latin America. This system is based on generative artificial intelligence.Tests were conducted encompassing the system’s functionality, content diversity, generation times,voice evaluation, intonation, speed, and pronunciation quality. The results confirm the system’s correctoperation and intuitive nature. The generated stories exhibit a high degree of diversity, as evidenced bythe calculation of Jaccard indices, with a maximum value of 0.2 observed in the evaluations of 30 analyzedstories. As anticipated, generation times increase with the length of the stories. It was determined thatthe voice best suited for storytelling is Onyx from OpenAI’s TTS. However, pronunciation errors werenoted in all TTS model voices. According to the conducted analysis, the system produces diverse stories that promote values among Spanish-speaking children, thus emphasizing the importance of inclusivity for individuals with different abilities. It is noteworthy that no inappropriate content for children was found in any of the stories

Conversational agent in HCI a review

Nowadays, AI technology is developing rapidly and slowly covering all areas of life. AI facilitates different parts of our lives and provides us with a lot of help. For example, in learning, students can acquire knowledge more conveniently through AI, and buyers can find suitable goods more conveniently through AI when shopping. At the same time, more and more technology is used in the field of voice agents, which allows humans to enjoy a lot of better services. In this article, we will study to better understand "how to understand human natural language and how the repository of knowledge is built." In the article we build with examples and deep learning models (CNN and RNN) through databases. Through repeated research and analysis, we can find that there are some limitations in this paper, such as the single learning model and the insufficient elaboration of data analysis and signal system technology. But at the same time, we also found a lot of future application prospects that voice agents can develop, it can be applied in many fields, such as finance, medical care, education and so on. For example, in children's education, parents can use voice agents to set time limits and monitor their children's progress. Existing digital interactive storytelling systems have limitations in terms of available storybooks and hand-crafted issues. Voice agents are becoming more popular in everyday scenarios, and more users are adopting devices like Siri and Google Assistant. In the future, conversational agents are expected to play an important role in oral communication with users.

Digital Storytelling for Developing Computer Skills in Rural Appalachia

As we built and deployed a digital storytelling system to teach digital literacy skills to rural Appalachians, we discovered key opportunities and challenges to promoting digital literacy in this region. We identified that the importance of storytelling in Appalachian culture made digital storytelling an effective means of teaching these skills to residents. However, the poor technology infrastructure at our study site posed challenges to our participants' ability to use technology and learn new skills. We found that poor infrastructure reinforces low self-efficacy, discouraging participants from using technology. In environments where computers are often slow and unreliable, it is not possible to form realistic expectations of how a computer should act. Therefore, it becomes difficult for users to untangle if the issues they encounter are because of usage errors or the technology. These findings highlight how infrastructure and self-efficacy should be accounted for together when conducting rural HCI research.

Indigenous Digital Storytelling: Digital Interfaces Supporting Cultural Heritage Preservation and Access

This paper reports on an examination and analysis of digital storytelling interface features and functionalities within a select number of Indigenous digital libraries and archives in order to support and inform the participatory and culturally-informed design and development of a digital storytelling system for the Inuvialuit Settlement Region (ISR) in Canada’s Western Arctic region. This paper provides an introduction to digital storytelling and the use of digital media in Indigenous communities to preserve oral traditions and stories in digital archives. It also presents participatory and inclusive design ideas and examples from Canada, US, and Australia to demonstrate and emphasize the importance of community engagement and community-based archiving for cultural heritage preservation and access.

Indigenous Digital Storytelling for Cultural Heritage Access and Preservation

This paper reports on an examination and analysis of digital storytelling interface features and functionalities within a select number of Indigenous digital libraries and archives to support and inform the participatory and culturally-informed design and development of a digital storytelling system for the Inuvialuit Settlement Region in the Western Arctic. The paper presents participatory and inclusive design ideas and examples from Canada, US, and Australia.

Digital Storytelling and Mathematical Thinking: An Educational Psychology Embrace

This article proposes Digital Storytelling as an education model that combines science, narrative thinking and art. This model has been implemented in Italian school settings over recent years. After a short introduction of the theoretical foundations of narrative thinking in the history of Educational Psychology, the paper focuses on Digital Storytelling as a co-constructive educational method that uses digital technologies for promoting an active, situated, meaningful and reflexive learning process. The proposed intervention in the Italian settings adds the artistic digital component (the use of avatar, comics and science fiction) to the Digital Storytelling systems. The set of implemented activities, as well as the individual and group actions taken, promote both the cognitive and emotional aspects of the learning process. The findings show that Digital Storytelling, spiced with artistic features, prompts the engagement of students in learning activities and offers a platform to enhance behavioural, emotional and cognitive commitment in mathematics education.

Hand gesture-based interactive puppetry system to assist storytelling for children

Digital techniques have been used to assist narrative and storytelling, especially in many pedagogical practices. With the rapid development of HCI techniques, saturated with digital media in their daily lives, young children, demands more interactive learning methods and meaningful immersive learning experiences. In this paper, we propose a novel hand gesture-based puppetry storytelling system which provides a more intuitive and natural human computer interaction method for young children to develop narrative ability in virtual story world. Depth motion sensing and hand gestures control technology is utilized in the implementation of user-friendly interaction. Young players could intuitively use hand gestures to manipulate virtual puppet to perform story and interact with different items in virtual environment to assist narration. Based on the result of the evaluation, this novel digital storytelling system shows positive pedagogical functions on children’s narrating ability as well as the competencies of cognitive and motor coordination. The usability of the system is preliminary examined in our test, and the results which showed that young children can benefit from playing with Puppet Narrator.

서사 패턴의 연관분석을 통한 이야기 장면 생성 방법

A narrative structure is essential for a story generator to create a story plot. In digital storytelling system, a narrative structure can be generally designed as a tree or a graph, and the story generator in the digital storytelling system creates continuous story plots based on the narrative structure. When a narrative structure is designed with a tree or a graph, it is hard for the story generator to create various kinds of story-plots due to the inflexible nature of a tree or graph structure. It may result in degrading the quality of story-plots to provide similar story-plot to various kind of user. In this paper, we proposed an approach to create a story-plot based on association analysis of data mining to overcome the disadvantage. In detail, we defined a narrative structure which consists of narrative patterns, and then implemented a story generator which creates a story-plot using the proposed narrative structure. As a result, we confirmed that implemented story generator was able to create a story-plot according to understanding level of user in case study.

‘She looked deep into our eyes’: reflections on cross-cultural practice in rural Africa

This paper shows the development of a mobile digital storytelling system that suits the needs and functions of rural African communities. But rather than focusing solely on the artefact and how it was designed, I also present an account of the ideas and perspectives I took, and how these changed in the course of practice. I uncover the slow process of discovering that cross-cultural practice is not only about understanding users or prototyping ideas in a detached fashion, but explore how in the course of practice pre-existing notions embedded in ourselves and in our culture are ‘unconcealed’. It is a learning process in which we learn about users in relation to ourselves. The prototype was tested in Adiedo, Kenya.

Situating digital storytelling within African communities

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 rural, oral users. By leveraging our prototype as a probe and observing villagers using it in two villages in South Africa and Kenya, we uncovered implications for situating digital storytelling within those communities. Finally, we distil observations relevant to localizing storytelling and their implications for transferring design into a different community.

Concepts for Interactive Digital Storytelling: From Table-top to Game-AI

In the current environment of digital games and immersive role playing systems, we often overlook previous methods of conveying and experiencing narrative based entertainment. We present a fresh perspective on interactive digital storytelling systems based on table-top role playing games. Table-top games offer players the ability to negotiate and determine outcomes of a game with a referee. This cooperative strategy provides opportunities for studying new approaches to AI in interactive narrative. Using table-top role playing games as a model, we propose terminology and concepts that are different from the normally applied traditional literary or dramaturgical perspectives.

A pediatric digital storytelling system for third year medical students: the virtual pediatric patients.

BackgroundComputer-based patient simulations (CBPS) are common, effective, instructional methods for medical students, but have limitations.The goal of this project was to describe the development of a CBPS designed to overcome some of these limitations and to perform an online evaluation.MethodsIn 1996, patients and families experiencing a common pediatric problem were interviewed, photographed and a chart review completed. A digital storytelling template was developed: 1. patient's story, evaluation and clinical course, 2. problem-based approach to the evaluation, and 3. discussion of disease process. The media was digitized and placed onto the Internet. The digital stories and a 10-question online survey were pilot tested. Online survey responses were collected from 1999–2003. Overall use of the digital stories was measured by computer server logs and by the number of hyperlinks to the CBPS.ResultsEight stories were created using this system. Over 4.5 years, 814,148 digital story pages were read by 362,351 users. Hyperlink citations from other websites to the CBPS were 108. Online survey respondents (N = 393) described the overall quality as excellent or very good (88.4%). The stores were clearly written (92%) at an appropriate level (91.4%). Respondents felt they could begin to evaluate a similar case presentation (95.4%), and would remember the case in the future (91%).ConclusionsA new type of CBPS, the digital storytelling system, has been developed and evaluated which and appears to be successful in overcoming some of the limitations of earlier CBPS by featuring patient's stories in their own words, by focusing on problems rather than diseases, and by having stories that are quick for students to work through.