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Augmenting Children's Creative Self-Efficacy and Performance through Enactment-Based Animated Storytelling

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Sharon Lynn Chu,

Kumar SridharamurthyAuthors Info & Claims

TEI '15: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

Pages 209 - 216

https://doi.org/10.1145/2677199.2680602

Published: 15 January 2015 Publication History

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At around age nine when social awareness and self-evaluation heighten, children experience a precipitous slump in creative engagement. We propose an enactment-based approach grounded in embodied cognition theories to support children's creative self-efficacy and creative thinking in storytelling during the period of this slump. Our investigation of the approach with 20 children indicated that enactment-based animated authoring improves children's sense of self-efficacy in creating stories, particularly for children with low to medium extraversion, and enables children to produce richer stories, especially for children who scored low on the baseline creativity test.

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