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You cannot use my broom! I'm the witch, you're the prince: Collaboration in a Virtual Dramatic Game [PDF]

Abstract_ In this paper we discuss how collaboration issues are addressed in the context of Teatrix, a virtual environment aiming at providing the children with the means for collaboratively creating a story on a virtual stage. The children create stories using a set of pre-defined scenes and dramatis personae — characters that have specific roles in the play, which they control to a certain extent). Each child expects the story to evolve in reaction to her/his character’s actions and the overall story emerges from the collaboration of different children. Based on this premise we conducted some evaluation experiences, in order to assess to what extent Teatrix promoted collaboration and what types of collaboration were particularly elicited by the application.
Year_ 2002
Keywords_ narrative, storytelling, learning virtual environment
Authors_ Rui Prada, Ana Paiva, Isabel Machado, Catarina Gouveia
Booktitle_ ITS'2002 - 6th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Volume_ 2363/2002
Pages_ 913-922
Series_ Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher_ Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
Address_ Biarritz, France
Month_ June

Bibtex_

@inproceedings { prada02,
	abstract = {In this paper we discuss how collaboration issues are addressed in the context of Teatrix, a virtual environment aiming at providing the children with the means for collaboratively creating a story on a virtual stage. The children create stories using a set of pre-defined scenes and dramatis personae — characters that have specific roles in the play, which they control to a certain extent). Each child expects the story to evolve in reaction to her/his character’s actions and the overall story emerges from the collaboration of different children. Based on this premise we conducted some evaluation experiences, in order to assess to what extent Teatrix promoted collaboration and what types of collaboration were particularly elicited by the application.},
	address = {Biarritz, France},
	booktitle = {ITS'2002 - 6th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems},
	keywords = {narrative, storytelling, learning virtual environment},
	month = {June},
	pages = {913-922},
	publisher = {Springer Berlin / Heidelberg},
	series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
	title = {You cannot use my broom! I'm the witch, you're the prince: Collaboration in a Virtual Dramatic Game},
	volume = {2363/2002},
	year = {2002},
	author = {Rui Prada and Ana Paiva and Isabel Machado and Catarina Gouveia}
}

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TEATRIX

Teatrix is a software application created to support the development of literacy skills in young children, namely writing and narrative skills. Teatrix is a 3D virtual environment for story creation that allows children to cooperate in the creation of their stories, each one taking the role a character, just like in real world performances.

http://gaips.inesc-id.pt/teatrix/