AI Stories: An Interactive Narrative System for Children
This addresses the need for engaging educational and play resources for children in healthcare settings, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing interactive narrative concepts.
The paper introduces AI Stories, an interactive dialogue system for children to co-create narrative worlds through conversation, with plans for development and testing in pediatric wards over three years.
AI Stories is a proposed interactive dialogue system, that lets children co-create narrative worlds through conversation. Over the next three years this system will be developed and tested within pediatric wards, where it offers a useful resource between the gap of education and play. Telling and making stories is a fundamental part of language play, and its chatty and nonsensical qualities are important; therefore, the prologued usage an automated system offers is a benefit to children. In this paper I will present the current state of this project, in its more experimental and general guise. Conceptually story-telling through dialogue relates to the preprint interpretation of story, beyond the static and linear medium, where stories were performative, temporal, and social.