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Trademark of Cartoon Pizza, Inc. and Sesame Workshop.

CharactersSetting

Dialogue

Events

RolesEnding

And then the friendly dragon defeated the evil prince, and lived happily ever after.

Not just Imagination

Children Creating Stories,And How Technology Can Help

Virtual Storytelling Environment

Tangible and Mobile Interfaces

TellTale

Image: http://tangible.media.mit.edu/project/telltale/

Record

Record

Record

Record

Record

RePlayCo

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ExplorationInspirationProductionSharing

What a pretty butterfly!

What would happen if…I’m going to draw a picture about it. Look at this!

Cognitive Physical Social Skill

USER Tool Task

O05

Fun !Why did it take that long to figure it out?

Image: http://www.media.mit.edu/gnl/projects/storymat/

StoryMat

Squeeze to recordReplay starts automatically based on place on the mat

StoryRooms

Images: http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/kiddesign/storyrooms.shtml

Children create the set

Children can program the interaction

POGO WorldBeamer Cards Mumbos

Making movies motivates children

to dwell in their story andstep back to view it

Helps the cognitive juices flow

Images: http://web.media.mit.edu/~cati/portfolio/MovingPictures.html

Moving Pictures

Camera

Tokens

Tabletop

Display

Making movies is fun…

But this is foremost about telling a story.

Picture this!Uses the child’s

toys

Gestural language to control capturing and editing of video

Images: http://web.media.mit.edu/~cati/portfolio/PictureThis_research.html

My name is Sile.Nice to meet you Fred.

Nice to meet you too.What about wanna do something?

Sure let’s go explore somewhere. Like find the Peruvian treasure. Right over there!

Images: http://web.media.mit.edu/~cati/portfolio/PictureThis_research.html

What will come next?

Stock Images: http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/

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