Collective Story Writing through Linking Images

TL;DR

This paper introduces a collaborative platform for story writing that links images into chains, enabling users to create and extend stories visually, with stories published based on community votes, fostering organized collective creativity.

Contribution

It presents a novel crowdsourcing framework that connects images into chains for collaborative story writing, integrating voting mechanisms for story publication.

Findings

Users prefer shorter Image Chains for creation.

Longer Image Chains receive more votes.

The platform encourages organized collaborative storytelling.

Abstract

Collaborative creativity is the approach of employing crowd to accomplish creative tasks. In this paper, we present a collaborative crowdsourcing platform for writing stories by means of connecting a series of `images'. These connected images are termed as Image Chains, reflecting successive scenarios. Users can either start or extend an Image Chain by uploading their own image or choosing from the available ones. These users are allowed to pen their stories from the Image Chains. Finally, stories get published based on the number of votes obtained. This provides an organized framework of story writing unlike most of the state-of-the-art collaborative editing platforms. Our experiments on 25 contributors highlight their interest in growing shorter Image Chains but voting longer Image Chains.