Investigating the Effects of Self-Avatars and Story-Relevant Avatars on Children's Creative Storytelling
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Storytelling is a critical step in the cognitive development of children. Particularly, this requires children to mentally project into the story context and to identify with the thoughts of the characters in their stories. We propose to support free imagination in creative storytelling through an enactment-based approach that allows children to embody an avatar and perform as the story character. We designed our story creation interface with two modes of avatar: the story-relevant avatar and the self-avatar, to investigate the effects of avatar design on the quality of children's creative products. In our study with 20 child participants, the results indicate that self-avatars can create a stronger sense of identification and embodied presence, while story-relevant avatars can provide a scaffold for mental projection.
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Enabling physicalization or materialization of AI-generated contents could enrich the sensorial and kinesthetic qualities of family-AI interactions, aid children's motor-sensory skills, induce mental soothing effects, and promote positive parental involvement.
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- Authors
- Zarei, N., Chu, S. L., Quek, F., Rao, N. '., & Brown, S. A.
- Affiliations
- Texas A&M University (US)
- University of Florida (US)
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2020-04-21
- Pages
- 1-11
- OpenAlex
- W3031904053
- Cited by
- 30
- References
- 38
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 1
- FWCI
- 4.94
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (1736225)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Social Robot Interaction and HRI
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Speech and Hearing › Digital Storytelling and Education
- Keywords
- creative storytelling, children, self-avatars, avatar design, embodiment, mental projection, embodied presence, cognitive development
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