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ShadowStory: creative and collaborative digital storytelling inspired by cultural heritage

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Yingying Jiang,

Xiaolong Zhang,

Hongan WangAuthors Info & Claims

CHI '11: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 1919 - 1928

https://doi.org/10.1145/1978942.1979221

Published: 07 May 2011 Publication History

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With the fast economic growth and urbanization of many developing countries come concerns that their children now have fewer opportunities to express creativity and develop collaboration skills, or to experience their local cultural heritage. We propose to address these concerns by creating technologies inspired by traditional arts, and allowing children to create and collaborate through playing with them. ShadowStory is our first attempt in this direction, a digital storytelling system inspired by traditional Chinese shadow puppetry. We present the design and implementation of ShadowStory and a 7-day field trial in a primary school. Findings illustrated that ShadowStory promoted creativity, collaboration, and intimacy with traditional culture among children, as well as interleaved children's digital and physical playing experience.

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CHI '11: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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