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The Storytelling Machine: A Playful Participatory Automated System Featuring Crowd-Sourced Story Content

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Betty Sargeant,

Florian 'Floyd' MuellerAuthors Info & Claims

CHI PLAY '18 Extended Abstracts: Proceedings of the 2018 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Companion Extended Abstracts

Pages 285 - 294

https://doi.org/10.1145/3270316.3272052

Published: 23 October 2018 Publication History

Abstract

This paper offers a design rationale from a playful, participatory installation called "The Storytelling Machine". The Storytelling Machine curated and delivered a collective story that was generated from crowd-sourced content. The machine transformed an audience member's drawing into an animated character that roamed a series of video worlds. These animated characters were projected onto surfaces in an exhibition space. The machine randomly displayed audiences' drawings and story texts, generating real-time graphics. This project involved a series of intercontinental public exhibitions and an extensive series of public workshops that spanned a three-year time frame. In this paper, we detail the design of the Storytelling Machine. Our contribution is an innovative, novel design that involves audiences in participatory activities in order to create a real-time collective digital story. This research may benefit game designers and researchers interested in engaging audiences through the design of participatory, digital story systems.

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Michielsen DVande Moere AVannieuwenhuyze JTsoumani OVan Der Graaf SClaes SLibot CCobus VPrange SClinch SRukzio EGugenheimer J(2020)Hyperlocal user-generated video contributions on public displaysProceedings of the 9TH ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays10.1145/3393712.3395343(55-62)Online publication date: 4-Jun-2020
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Index Terms

The Storytelling Machine: A Playful Participatory Automated System Featuring Crowd-Sourced Story Content
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Real-time systems
    1. Real-time system architecture
2. Computing methodologies
  1. Modeling and simulation
    1. Simulation types and techniques
      1. Interactive simulation
      2. Real-time simulation

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CHI PLAY '18 Extended Abstracts: Proceedings of the 2018 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Companion Extended Abstracts

October 2018

725 pages

ISBN:9781450359689

DOI:10.1145/3270316

General Chairs:
Florian 'Floyd' Mueller
Exertion Games Lab, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
,
Daniel Johnson
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
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Ben Schouten
Eindhoven University of Technology and Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands
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Phoebe O. Toups Dugas
Play & Interactive Experiences for Learning Lab, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA
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Peta Wyeth
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

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Campreguer França NMaurer BAltarriba Bertran F(2024)Towards Lenses for Reviewing Playfulness in HCIExtended Abstracts of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3613905.3650888(1-8)Online publication date: 11-May-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613905.3650888
Michielsen DVande Moere AVannieuwenhuyze JTsoumani OVan Der Graaf SClaes SLibot CCobus VPrange SClinch SRukzio EGugenheimer J(2020)Hyperlocal user-generated video contributions on public displaysProceedings of the 9TH ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays10.1145/3393712.3395343(55-62)Online publication date: 4-Jun-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3393712.3395343
Li ZWang YWang WGreuter SMueller FBernhaupt RMueller FVerweij DAndres JMcGrenere JCockburn AAvellino IGoguey ABjørn PZhao SSamson BKocielnik R(2020)Empowering a Creative City: Engage Citizens in Creating Street Art through Human-AI CollaborationExtended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3334480.3382976(1-8)Online publication date: 25-Apr-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3334480.3382976

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