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Papers/Notes: Storytelling

Wednesday, April 14
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Family Story Play: Reading with Young Children (and Elmo) Over a Distance
Hayes Raffle, Nokia Research Center, USA
Rafael "Tico" Ballagas, Nokia Research Center, USA
Glenda Revelle, Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, USA
Hiroshi Horii, Nokia Research Center, USA
Sean Follmer, MIT Media Lab, USA
Janet Go, Nokia Research Center, USA
Emily Reardon, Sesame Workshop, USA
Koichi Mori, Nokia Research Center, USA
Joseph "Jofish" Kaye, Nokia Research Center, USA
Mirjana Spasojevic, Nokia Research Center, USA

Family Story Play allows grandparents to read books together with their grandchildren over video conference. The system improves long-distance communication and encourages activities linked to literacy development.

Designing with Mobile Digital Storytelling in Rural Africa
Nicola J Bidwell, UCT Centre in ICT4D & James Cook University, South Africa
Thomas Reitmaier, UCT Centre in ICT4D, South Africa
Gary Marsden, UCT Centre in ICT4D, South Africa
Susan Hansen, University of Technology Sydney & CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia

Our engagement with a rural African community to design a novel application for the cellphone contributes new perspectives on digital storytelling and to generating empathy in HCI4D.

Let's Play Chinese Characters - Mobile Learning Approaches via Culturally Inspired Group Games
Feng Tian, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Fei Lv, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Jingtao Wang, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A
Hongan Wang, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Wencan Luo, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Matthew Kam, Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A
Vidya Setlur, Nokia Research Palo Alto, U.S.A
Guozhong Dai, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
John Canny, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A

Design two mobile learning games, Multimedia Word and Drumming Strokes, based on analysis of 25 traditional Chinese group games. Intend to improve children's Chinese language skills through group playing activities.