Rosebud: technological toys for storytelling

  • Authors:
  • Jennifer W. Glos;Justine Cassell

  • Affiliations:
  • MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA;MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA

  • Venue:
  • CHI EA '97 CHI '97 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

Rosebud is a user-interface prototype which elicits storytelling by child users though interaction with a computationally-augmented physical artifact. In particular, Rosebud links children's stories to their toys, such that toy and computer augment one another. The toy engages children in a familiar mode of interaction, while the computer makes a previously passive object active. The children are able to write, edit, collaborate, and share their stories, activities which have particular attraction for female users.