Making Space for Voice: Technologies to Support Children’s Fantasy and Storytelling |
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Authors: | J Cassell K Ryokai |
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Affiliation: | (1) MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, USA, US |
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Abstract: | Fantasy play and storytelling serve an important role in young children’s development. While computers are increasingly present
in the world of young children, there is a lack of computational tools to support children’s voices in everyday storytelling,
particularly in the context of fantasy play. We believe that there is a need for computational systems that engage in story-listening
rather than story-telling. This paper introduces StoryMat, a system that supports and listens to children’s voices in their
own storytelling play. StoryMat offers a child-driven, story-listening space by recording and recalling children’s narrating
voices, and the movements they make with their stuffed animals on a colourful story-evoking quilt. Empirical research with
children shows that StoryMat fosters developmentally advanced forms of storytelling of the kind that has been shown to provide
a bridge to written literacy, and provides a space where children engage in fantasy storytelling collaboratively with or without
a playmate. The paper addresses the importance of supporting young children’s fantasy play and suggests a new way for technology
to play an integral part in that activity. |
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Keywords: | : Interactive narrative – Interface – Storytelling – Tangible interface – Young children |
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