The Never Ending Story: A Collaborative Narrative Storylog

Abstract

This paper describes a course of research integrating the social sciences and computing technology to realize the individual inner world upon the physical world by storytelling, immersive audio, location-specific content, blog and location-aware technology. Our work aims at developing a storytelling platform which forms a new way of storytelling as postmodern literature and an unprecedented aplenty imaginative world in addition to the cognitive real world. With our Storylog system, the individuals would be able to engage in a form of first-person storytelling in the place they locate. Via RFID tagging and Wifi connection, all participants could conceptually contribute to an infinite narration of an invisible layer, the Fantasica upon a physical space with portable devices. Story conversation enables people to interact with the story roles as well as to interact with the real people further. With multiple users in different space and time simultaneously, our system forms the collaborative storytelling and augmented social relationships and generates a new field in social relationship and cultural discussion. The results of the experiment show that all participants are all confident to create their cognitive world accurately.