Storied Navigation: Toward Media Collection-Based Storytelling
Life is filled with stories. Modern technologies enable us to document and share life events with various kinds of media, such as photos, videos, etc, but people still find it difficult to create stories using these documentary media fragments. This paper proposes a novel storytelling interaction scenario, namely, Storied Navigation, by which we investigate how users can make video stories by typing arbitrary text and drag-n-drop based on existing media collections. The system helps users to understand the video corpus as well as to develop story threads by prompting context-relative questions and video sequences as answers. Based on commonsense reasoning technology, it achieves these goals and presents a novel storytelling scenario. We view it as a promising first step of pushing today’s fragmented sharing/viewing and time-consuming media production experience to a progressive, enjoyable integrated storytelling activity.
See more deatil in my Thesis Proposal
posted by Edward Shen 沈育德 @ 12:49 PM
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I discovered your project Storied Navigation on the MIT website and read your thesis. Really interesting, congratulations. I commented on this in my blog on http://www.pinofiermonte.com/2008/06/rethinking-storytelling-with-storied.html. I was a bit surprised, that I didn't find references on Ricki Goldman-Segall's work in your thesis (I hope you don't take it as a critic). Maybe you haven't heard about her or maybe your focus was different, but I see a lot of connections between her work and your project. What do you planning to do with the software that you developed? It would be very interesting to try it out in an educational setting.
Thank you Pino. It is very interesting to look back to this video to me as well, as I gradually move away from this project. After being challenged in the past few months for its usefulness by different people, now it seems to me that the key idea behind this whole project is this single word - perspective. People don't need that many stories to consume for any particular event for entertaining reasons. Rather, as what's suggested in Glorianna's words, "...and just pick one clip after another that are linked together, based on the sort of perspective you wanna have...", if perspectives are of high values, then the Storied Navigation framework would be an interesting playground for people to compose, share, and even crtique their perspectives with each other. Example scenarios would be peer learning environments (as Pino mentioned), political discussions, critique over creative pieces/products/artifacts/documents, and so on.
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