Draw Your Story

EdTech Research Group

Behzad Joze HashemianDoctoral StudentSchool of ComputingUniversity of Eastern Finland

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Contents

The Project2

DIS31

The Product33

Interactive Storyteller4

Architecture6

Authoring Tool35

Digital Interactive Storytelling

Digital Storytelling Using computer-based tools to tell stories

Interactive Storytelling Readers or audience can influence the

storytelling process

DIS: Story+ Multimedia + User Interaction

DIS is a field between storytelling and computer games

Digital Stories Traditionally stories used to have a beginning, a middle, and an

ending that is told to an audience which is quiet and even receptive. Today DIS is changing this pattern.

Digital interactive stories have the possibilities of being open-ended, cross-media, non-linear, exploratory, collaborative, interactive, unpredictable

Mobile and Web2.0 storytelling make it easy for every internet users to tell and share their own stories.

Merging the role of author and reader, do readers follow the storyline or do they create them by interacting with the story?

Collaborative DIS

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Last year in Italy,PoliCultura project involved 20,000 students between 5 to 18 years old, in a large deployment of collaborative digital storytelling, as a fun way to ‘go beyond the school’s boundaries’ by creating a multimedia story using the 1001stories authoring system.In Sep 2012 there were 697 stories published.

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On the Great East Japan Tsunami and Earthquake in 2011,Growing Documentary platform was born, a CSCW concept with nonlinear narrative structure for producing documentary film, which involves independent volunteers worldwide in the process of data and content production of a documentary movie.

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Imagine technological possibilities that millions of movie fans and ordinary audiences can write the storyline or scenario of the next movie in a film series such as Star Wars, James Bond, Harry Potter, Shrek, Superman, ... Or in TV series such as The Simpsons, Friends, The X-Files, Star Trek , ....

Project Definition Mobile and Web Based Educational Digital Storytelling Environment A platform for storywriters to shaire their storybooks Group storytelling for children ages 4-14 Developing kids imagination and creativity Convey a meaning by making animation Social interactions between characters Inspiring story ideas by libraries

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1 2D Scenes

2Animated& Speaking Objects

3Characters, features and actions

4 Text, TTS, Audio

5 Background Music

EduGames Market

26%17%

41% 8%

8%

Children, 0-14 Youth, 15-24 Prime working, 25-54

Mature working, 55-64 Elderly, 65+

The Worldwide Game-based Learning market reached $1.2

billion in 2011, and revenues will more than double to $2.5 billion

by 2016.

Packaged mobile edugames will account for 90.5% of all mobile edugames revenues by 2015.

Packaged mobile edugames are already out selling non-mobile (PC and console) edugames.

In terms of revenues for packaged games, the greatest

opportunities are for mobile edugames for young Pre K-3

children

70-80% of download to mobile devices are games.

Intent toward mobile learning: 64% to educate themselves 69% to do research 95% to keep informed

Interactive Storyteller

Unlimited StorybooksUnlimited Storybooks

Fun pictures, text & audioFun pictures, text & audio

Reading stories out loudReading stories out loud

Voice dictionary & searchVoice dictionary & search

Interactive StoriesInteractive Stories

Tablet, Mobile & WebTablet, Mobile & Web

Free For AllFree For All

Authoring Tool

Children Professional

Selection 2D Scene Building

Library, Sounds, Voice Recording

Objects Building

Sys. Generated Text and Audio

TextWriting, TTS, Audio files

Selection Music Import

Nonlinear Group Work No

Architecture Non-linear Keep tracking

of all changes by all children

No Obligation to agree on changes

Final result is multiple stories

Biz Model Canvas

Milestones

11Joze

22Joze

33Joze

44Production Team

LegislationLegislation

ProductionProduction

R&DR&D

AdsAds

Added Values Interactive Storyteller

Voice interaction, Voice dictionary & search Fun animated, Sounded & Speaking Objects Pedagogical design and educational

Open platform for writers No programming skils Unlimited books Free for all

Authoring Tool Library of scenes and objects, Voice Recording Auto Generated Text and Voice for children Nonlinear and group storytelling for children

Win-Win situation Writers make money and so do we Levereging writers for WOM ads.

Joze Hashemian