Enactment-Based Storytelling

Enactment-Based Storytelling

BACKGROUND

The DiME project investigates the use of embodied enactment to support children’s creative thinking and creative self-efficacy in storytelling. We target children aged 8 to 11, as they undergo a period often referred to as the ‘fourth-grade slump’. DiME has resulted in a prototype that enables children to create stories through body enactment and the use of physical objects in a motion-tracking system setup. The system is based in the core concept of performative authoring. The main mechanisms by which performative authoring functions are the following: Body enactment and the support of physical objects allow the child to draw from his or her embodied prior experiences to bring forth story ideas. In continuation of the DiMe project, we are now investigating how the self-familiarity of the avatar would affect the embodied experiences in story creation. As an extension of this research, we also look into a similar approach for adults, where we investigate the design of a system that can visualize stories and ideas from the gestures and speech of creative workers.

SUB-PROJECTS

PROJECT TEAM MEMBERS

COLLABORATORS

ALUMNI

  • Ranger Chenore (Undergraduate Student, University of Florida)
  • Grace Nemanic (Undergraduate Student, University of Florida)
  • Arnav Pangasa (Undergraduate Student, University of Florida)
  • Lara Disuanco (Undergraduate Student, University of Florida)
  • Yvette Williamson (Undergraduate Student, University of Florida)
  • Brittany Garcia (Ph.D. Student, Computer Information Science & Engineering)
  • Hannah Park (Ph.D. Student, Architecture)
  • Lexi Mitchell (Master’s Student, Texas A&M University)

Project PUBLICATIONS

  1. Brown, S. A., Chu, S. L., & Rani, N. (2020, September). Externalizing Mental Images by Harnessing Size-Describing Gestures: Design Implications for a Visualization System. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (pp. 1-9).
  2. Brown, S. A., Chu, S. L., & Rani, N. (2020, April). Harnessing Gestures to Externalize Discourse Ideas for Common Ground: Design Implications from a Frame of Reference Analysis. In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-8).
  3. Zarei, N., Quek, F., Chu, S. L., & Brown, S. A.. (2020). A Comparison of Children’s Narrative Expressions In Enactment and Writing. In International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling. Springer, Cham. Bournemouth, UK.
  4. Zarei, N., Chu, S. L., Quek, F., Rao, N. and Brown, S. (2020). Investigating the Effects of Self-Avatars and Story-Relevant Avatars on Children’s Creative Storytelling. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2020). ACM. Honolulu, HI.
  5. Brown, S. A., Chu, S. L., Quek, F., Canaday, P., Li, Q., Loustau, T., Wu, S., and Zhang, L. (2019). Towards a Gesture-Based Story Authoring System: Design Implications from Feature Analysis of Iconic Gestures During Storytelling. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS ’19). Springer. Salt Lake City, Utah.
  6. Brown, S. A., Chu, S. L., & Loustau, T. (2019, November). Embodying cognitive processes in storytelling interfaces for children. In International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (pp. 357-363). Springer, Cham.
  7. Rao, N., Chu, S. L., Faris, R. and Ospina, D. (2019). The Effects of Interactive Emotional Priming on Storytelling: An Exploratory Study. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS ’19). Springer. Salt Lake City, Utah.
  8. Chu, S., Quek, F. and Sridharamurthy, K. (2015). Augmenting Children’s Creative Self-Efficacy and Performance through Enactment-Based Animated Storytelling. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI’15). Stanford University, CA. ACM.
  9. Chu, S. and Quek, F. (2014). Exploring Performative Authoring as a Story Creation Approach for Children. In Proceedings of International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS ’14). Singapore, Singapore.
  10. Chu, S., Quek, F. and Sridharamurthy, K. (2014). Ready…Action! A Performative Authoring System for Children to Create Animated Stories. In Proceedings of the 11th Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology Conference (ACE ’14). Madeira, Portugal.
  11. Chu, S. and Quek, F. (2014). The Effects of Visual Contextual Structures on Children’s Imagination in Story Authoring Interfaces. In Proceedings of Interaction Design & Children (IDC ’14). Aarhus, Denmark.
  12. Chu, S., Quek, F. and Tanenbaum, J. (2013). Performative Authoring: Nurturing Storytelling in Children through Imaginative Enactment. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS ’13). Istanbul, Turkey. [Best Paper Award]
  13. Chu, S. and Quek, F. (2013). Things to Imagine With: Designing For the Child’s Creativity. In Proceedings of Interaction Design & Children ’13. New York City, NY: ACM.
  14. Chu, S., Quek, F., Gusukuma, L. and Tanenbaum. J. (2013). The Effects of Physicality on the Child’s Imagination. In Proceedings of Creativity and Cognition ’13. Sydney: Australia.
  15. Chu, S., Quek, F. and Lin, X. (2011) Studying Medium Effects on Children’s Creative Processes. In Creativity & Cognition ‘11. ACM: pp. 3-12: Atlanta, GA.