To better understand how young Alaska Native (Inupiaq) people are creatively responding to the tensions of growing up in a world markedly different from that of their parents and grandparents, the pilot study examined youthproduced digital stories as representations of their everyday lives, values, and identities. Two hundred and seventy-one youth–produced digital stories were examined and assi...

Through user testing of Storytelling Alice, we found that users’ ability to find and develop story ideas was important in maintaining their engagement with programming in the system. In this paper, we describe the design process behind creating a gallery of characters and scenery that helps Storytelling Alice users to find and develop story ideas as well as lessons learned about successful and ...

A mixed-design experiment was conducted to explore differences between searching and surfing on cognitive and emotional responses to online news. Ninety-two participants read three unpleasant news stories from a website. Half of the participants acquired their stories by searching, meaning they had a previous information need in mind. The other half of the participants acquired their stories by...

Picture Books 2 generates fable-like stories for children age 6 to 8 years old based on an input picture comprising of three scenes. Currently the system is able to generate stories that show transitions and movement of characters and objects across the adjacent scenes of the input picture. However some of the stories produced are illogical. This study explores an approach to enhancing the onto...