Abstract
Storytelling is a methodology which exploits narration to give meaning and sense to reality. It is omnipresent in human culture and it finds relevant application in pedagogy. Telling children stories helps them to understand the world, to learn about their culture, to vehiculate specific concepts, to reflect upon experiences. In an educational context, storytelling facilitates literacy, building shared meanings between adults and children. In recent years, thanks to technological development, digital tools have been included in the storytelling process, giving life to digital storytelling. A relevant feature of storytelling, both traditional and digital, is the chance to put together the cognitive dimension with the emotional one. For this reason it has been employed to gather attention from people with profound intellectual and mental disabilities too. The emotional dimension can be indeed useful for everyone, to attract children, to increase their motivation and to improve learning.
For these reasons, we propose STTory, a hardware/software system for multisensory storytelling with smell, taste and touch that has been tested during a pilot study. Users feedback indicate that the use of more senses improved motivation.
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The project has been run under INF@NZIA DIGI.tales, funded by Italian Ministry for Education, University and Re-search under PON-Smart Cities for Social Inclusion programme.
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Di Fuccio, R., Ponticorvo, M., Ferrara, F., Miglino, O. (2016). Digital and Multisensory Storytelling: Narration with Smell, Taste and Touch. In: Verbert, K., Sharples, M., Klobučar, T. (eds) Adaptive and Adaptable Learning. EC-TEL 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9891. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45153-4_51
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