New Active Tools for Supporting Narrative Structures

  • Authors:

  • Françoise Decortis;Antonio Rizzo

  • Affiliations:

  • FNRS Researcher, Psychology and Education Sciences Department, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium;Multimedia Laboratory, University of Siena, Siena, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Constructing stories is a type of playing that involves mobilizing the storyteller’s imagination and finding original ways to convey narrative intentions. When a child invents a story, there is a natural interaction with the local environment and the use of various means of expression. We adopted a user-centered approach to design POGO, a playful environment which utilizes the child’s physical environment and sensory modalities. Pogo is a system of active tools that enable children to create stories by connecting physical and virtual environments. By providing children with the possibility of capturing and manipulating images and various media, and combining them in sequential form, Pogo triggered new strategies in the construction of narrative logic, time and space, in the construction of the episodes and in the visual narration.