AI Stories: An Interactive Narrative System for Children

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.