StoryDrawer

Storytelling is a common creative activity for children. During storytelling, children need creative support and are subjected to cognitive challenges. This paper explores a co-creative agent - StoryDrawer, which supports children in creating oral stories through collaborative drawing. StoryDrawer works with children in two strategies: Child says and AI draws; and Child scribbles and AI completes. These two collaborative strategies allow children to draw their stories as an externalization and provoke unexpected ideas. This paper presents the interaction design, collaborative strategies and implementation of StoryDrawer, and conducts a user study for the fun and task effectiveness of StoryDrawer. The results reveal that our system can encourage children's active participation in storytelling and help them create novel stories through human-computer collaboration.