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“When I'm writing a story, I am really good” Exploring the use of digital storytelling technology at home

Year: 2023

Type: article

Abstract: Throughout childhood, children negotiate their realities through expressing their values, affect, and experiences. Digital storytelling has been shown to foster this process of sense making. In this paper we report on a study designed to examine how parent-children pairs use stories together to express their identities, focusing on how two interaction design scaffolds typically embedded in digital storytelling technologies support families to make their stories. In a field study with seven parent-child dyads, families completed a series of storytelling tasks at home, each task followed by a diary and a final interview. The study shows that child agency is a critical value underpinning digital storytelling activities in the home. While the interaction design scaffolds considered were found to benefit the process of storytelling, one of them also triggered power tensions between parent and child. Our findings contribute new design sensibilities for digital storytelling intended for the family context.

Source: International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction

DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcci.2023.100613

Authors: Sara Kalantari, Elisa Rubegni, Laura Benton, Asimina Vasalou

Institutions: University College London, Lancaster University

Language: English

Topic: Digital Storytelling and Education

Subfield: Education

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,250

Funder: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council