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The focus of this paper is the collaborative storytelling environments created as part of a three-year multi-disciplinary research project, KidStory. The project team, from the UK, Sweden and the USA, developed a series of story creation and telling tools and virtual environments for children aged 5–7 years. This paper concerns work with a Nottingham primary school to design and develop collaborative storytelling tools, including tangible interfaces devices and reactive spaces, with the aim of integrating these within the school context. The final set-up allowed children to dynamically produce story content, to create basic narrative structures and to retell their stories in a collaborative and adaptable physical space.
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Acknowledgements. This work has been conducted as part of the EU Esprit 29310 KidStory project. The authors acknowledge support from all partners (SICS/Maryland/KTH). Thanks also to the teachers and children at the primary school in Nottingham for their collaboration in this work. To download KidPad see http://www.kidpad.org.
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Bayon, V., Wilson, J., Stanton, D. et al. Mixed reality storytelling environments. Virtual Reality 7, 54–63 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10055-003-0109-6
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10055-003-0109-6