Interactive storytelling in pre-school

Blas, Nicoletta Di; Boretti, Bianca

doi:10.1145/1551788.1551797

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“…Moreover, it would be interesting to invite children in the role of a researcher to produce diaries of this kind and to observe how this affects the creations, if at all. Finally, two closely related research areas of interest have been left out of our literature study: The field of storytelling and children was excluded as its aim has rather been to empower children to create and not to gather understandings of children's everyday life in relation to technology, or discuss the functionality of the method itself, as was the aim in our study (see e.g., Cassell and Ryokoiai, 2001;Di Blas and Boretti, 2009). Furthermore, research on cultural or technological probes (e.g., Hutchinson et al, 2003) was excluded unless it explicitly dealt with diaries as well (as was the case in Labrune andMackay, 2005 andRiekhoff and, as there already is a large body of research related to the use of probes in HCI research and practice, impossible to be briefly reviewed in this paper.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Video diary as a means for data gathering with children – Encountering identities in the making

Iivari

Kinnula

Kuure

et al. 2014

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

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This paper examines video diaries gathered from 10-11-year-old pupils with the aim of inquiring children's technology use in their everyday life. A discourse lens is utilized to provide novel insights into the nature and use of videos and diaries in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) research and design. The paper shows how the children, given the same assignment, produced their video diaries from a range of different positions such as 'a diarist', 'a news anchor' and 'a stage performer', and through a variety of widely known genres such as 'an intimate, confessional diary entry', 'a news broadcast', and 'a homework assignment'. The children also smoothly moved between the positions and genres sometimes changing them several times even during one video clip. Our findings bear implications on two types of HCI research: firstly, studies using diaries for research and design purposes and, secondly, studies interested in videos produced by the research subjects. The paper emphasizes videos and diaries as a multifaceted resource not only revealing facts from the producers' lives but also playful experimenting with different positions and genres highlighting constant identity exploration and construction going on during the creation of the data. During the data analysis it is useful to consider within what kind of positionings and genres the pieces of data or 'facts' have been created as these genres and positions always frame and limit what is said and how. The paper also suggests that researchers could try to guide the research subjects to adopt certain positions and to rely on certain genres in producing their diaries or video clips to obtain better-focused data for particular research or design purposes. On the other hand, challenges involved with this kind of an attempt are also highlighted.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Video diary as a means for data gathering with children – Encountering identities in the making

Iivari

Kinnula

Kuure

et al. 2014

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

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“…5a, where f 1 (i ∈ [1,5]) presents the position of the finger tips (i is the number of recognized fingers), and c presents the centre of the palm. The plane of the hand is formed with the normal vector n , and the directional vector d .…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As another social benefit, digital storytelling can also help disabled children or students with learning difficulties to remove the barriers of communication with adults and peers and overcome the inability to focus on their feelings or thoughts by providing them with opportunities to play active roles [4]. At present, the major pedagogical benefit gained with digital storytelling is the ability to narrate [5,6].…”

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confidence: 99%

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

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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.

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“…Audio recording and the creation of the visual communication elements are two important moments, which support development of technical skills. Even pre-school children are capable of understanding and managing the principles of audio recording [13]. As regards the slideshow creation, children prove very resourceful, combing the web, taking their own pictures, or scanning their own drawings ( Figure 3).…”

Section: Collective Authoring: Main Stepsmentioning

confidence: 99%