Mixed reality storytelling environments

The focus of this paper is the collaborative storytelling environments created as part of a three-year multi-disciplinary research project, KidStory. The project team, from the UK, Sweden and the USA, developed a series of story creation and telling tools and virtual environments for children aged 5–7 years. This paper concerns work with a Nottingham primary school to design and develop collaborative storytelling tools, including tangible interfaces devices and reactive spaces, with the aim of integrating these within the school context. The final set-up allowed children to dynamically produce story content, to create basic narrative structures and to retell their stories in a collaborative and adaptable physical space.