StoryIcon: A Prototype for Visualizing Children’s Storytelling

Storytelling is an activity to cultivate children’s comprehensive abilities. In this paper, we adopt a fully digital way of natural interaction to inspire children to create stories. To achieve story visualization, we develop a system StoryIcon. Based on visualization, we propose an avatar-based method to support visual story creation. The study of different degrees of facial similarity is affected by children’s attention. In addition, in order to ensure the integrity and fluency of the narrative, we incorporate conversation agents into the story system to guide children to tell stories. A preliminary experiment is conducted on 6 children aged 5-8 years old. The results show that the design is feasible and has guiding significance for the development of visualization systems in the future.