AI Stories: An Interactive Narrative System for Children
Ben Burtenshaw

TL;DR
AI Stories is an interactive dialogue system designed to enable children to co-create narratives, fostering language development and play through conversational storytelling in pediatric healthcare settings.
Contribution
This paper introduces a novel interactive narrative system for children that emphasizes dialogue-based storytelling and discusses its experimental development and potential benefits.
Findings
System prototype developed and tested in preliminary settings
Children engaged actively in co-creating stories
Potential to enhance language and social skills
Abstract
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.
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Taxonomy
TopicsSpeech and dialogue systems · AI in Service Interactions · Topic Modeling
