Investigating the Effects of Self-Avatars and Story-Relevant Avatars on Children's Creative Storytelling

Envisioning Narrative Intelligence: A Creative Visual Storytelling Anthology

“…HCI scholars have studied computational models of visual storytelling, ranging from interactive storytelling to automatic story generation. While we focus on the latter, we note that researchers have assembled intricate interactive systems where people can cocreate stories with virtual characters (e.g., in visually immersive simulation games) [42,43,85], as well as with virtual agents to facilitate collaborative storytelling in contexts including education, advocacy, and play) [27,35,36,49]. For example, Zhang et al have explored how AI can support children in creative visual storytelling by facilitating co-creative processes such as drawing, ideating, and story writing [85,86].…”

“…While we focus on the latter, we note that researchers have assembled intricate interactive systems where people can cocreate stories with virtual characters (e.g., in visually immersive simulation games) [42,43,85], as well as with virtual agents to facilitate collaborative storytelling in contexts including education, advocacy, and play) [27,35,36,49]. For example, Zhang et al have explored how AI can support children in creative visual storytelling by facilitating co-creative processes such as drawing, ideating, and story writing [85,86]. These works explore how machines can augment human creativity, but they do not address how machines can learn to be creative storytellers on their own.…”

“…Artificial intelligence has increasingly supported narrative in a range of contexts, reshaping and expanding how the age-old humanistic practice of telling stories takes hold [59,60,79]. While there is much exciting work in the realms of computational narrative intelligence [40] ranging from creative visual storytelling with robots [49,86,87] to emergent narrative with co-creative interactive storytelling characters [42,43,85], this work takes a step back from the technology itself to better understand the human creative process of storytelling resulting from a controlled elicitation process. In this paper, we set out to, first, examine human intelligence of storytelling without computationally modeling story generation just yet.…”

Metamorpheus: Interactive, Affective, and Creative Dream Narration Through Metaphorical Visual Storytelling

“…In this paper, we explore the paradigm of visual storytelling to provoke meaningful self-reflection through creation, using dreams as the material. Visual storytelling is commonly used in HCI to promote mental well-being (e.g., [91,92]) that combines two common modalities: text and visuals. Dreams are believed to be enactment and dramatization of waking-life experiences [12,24] that provides sources for self-discovery and self-understanding [22,42].…”

“…Previously, HCI researchers also found that creative activities such as bullet journaling [5,87] or visual storytelling [39,91,92] can facilitate self-reflection and promote mindfulness through a creative meaning-making process. To track emotions, for example, bullet journalists were found to come up with individualised, decorative, and artistic representations of moods, such as Mandala, Origami, text narrative, etc [5].…”