StoryDrawer

Mathemyths: Leveraging Large Language Models to Teach Mathematical Language through Child-AI Co-Creative Storytelling

“…Another related research area is focused CUI and storytelling specifically, where an agent collaboratively co-creates stories with children [97,100,103,108,109], mirroring the common childhood activity children have with teachers or parents. Among these studies, a prevailing model involves the agent listening to a child's stories and then periodically offering generic, template-based response that are not usually responsive to children's specific contribution [10,80,94].…”

“…and a continuation the narrative in line with the children's input. In the cases when young children require additional support to generate a concrete idea, Mathemyths provides scaffolding to encourage children to elaborate their ideas [53,87,108,109]. For instance, if the child provides a brief response without much detail, such as "ask for help", the agent will ask a follow-up question, "What a good point!…”

“…Such additions would enable children to visualize the story narratives, allowing them to express their ideas not only through words but also through drawings, animations, and sound effects. This can not only augment children's creative experience [108,109], but also improve children's comprehension of abstract concepts [22]. In this context, consistent interactions with AI, which might promote long-term creativity in children, become even more significant as they have shown the capability to learn or emulate creativity from AI interactions [5,6].…”

Envisioning Narrative Intelligence: A Creative Visual Storytelling Anthology

“…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.…”