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SparkTales: Facilitating Cross-Language Collaborative Storytelling through Coordinator-AI Collaboration

Wenxin Zhao, Peng Zhang, Hansu Gu, Haoxuan Zhou, Xiaojie Huo, Lin Wang, Wen Zheng, Tun Lu, Ning Gu

TL;DR

Evaluation results show that SparkTales not only significantly increases coordinators' efficiency and quality of guidance but also improves children's participation, providing valuable insights for the design of future intelligent systems supporting cross-language collaboration.

Abstract

Cross-language collaborative storytelling plays a vital role in children's language learning and cultural development, fostering both expressive ability and intercultural awareness. Yet, in practice, children's participation is often shallow, and facilitating such sessions places heavy cognitive and organizational burdens on coordinators, who must coordinate language support, maintain children's engagement, and navigate cultural differences. To address these challenges, we conducted a formative study with coordinators to identify their needs and pain points, which guided the design of SparkTales, an intelligent support system for cross-language collaborative storytelling. SparkTales leverages both individual and common characteristics of participating children to provide coordinators with story frameworks, diverse questions, and comprehension-oriented materials, aiming to reduce coordinators' workload while enhancing children's interactive engagement. Evaluation results show that SparkTales not only significantly increases coordinators' efficiency and quality of guidance but also improves children's participation, providing valuable insights for the design of future intelligent systems supporting cross-language collaboration.

SparkTales: Facilitating Cross-Language Collaborative Storytelling through Coordinator-AI Collaboration

TL;DR

Evaluation results show that SparkTales not only significantly increases coordinators' efficiency and quality of guidance but also improves children's participation, providing valuable insights for the design of future intelligent systems supporting cross-language collaboration.

Abstract

Cross-language collaborative storytelling plays a vital role in children's language learning and cultural development, fostering both expressive ability and intercultural awareness. Yet, in practice, children's participation is often shallow, and facilitating such sessions places heavy cognitive and organizational burdens on coordinators, who must coordinate language support, maintain children's engagement, and navigate cultural differences. To address these challenges, we conducted a formative study with coordinators to identify their needs and pain points, which guided the design of SparkTales, an intelligent support system for cross-language collaborative storytelling. SparkTales leverages both individual and common characteristics of participating children to provide coordinators with story frameworks, diverse questions, and comprehension-oriented materials, aiming to reduce coordinators' workload while enhancing children's interactive engagement. Evaluation results show that SparkTales not only significantly increases coordinators' efficiency and quality of guidance but also improves children's participation, providing valuable insights for the design of future intelligent systems supporting cross-language collaboration.
Paper Structure (44 sections, 12 figures, 3 tables)

This paper contains 44 sections, 12 figures, 3 tables.

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Related Work
  3. (Collaborative) Storytelling
  4. Coordinator–AI Teaming for Child Interaction and Collaboration
  5. Technology-Supported Cross-Language Learning
  6. Formative Study
  7. Method
  8. Participants
  9. Procedure
  10. Findings
  11. Current Practices
  12. Key Findings
  13. Design Goals
  14. SparkTales: Facilitating Cross-Language Collaborative Storytelling through Coordinator-AI Collaboration
  15. SparkTales Design
  16. ...and 29 more sections

Figures (12)

  • Figure 1: Examples of monolingual and bilingual collaborative storybooks.
  • Figure 2: The current process of cross-language collaborative storytelling.
  • Figure 3: The framework of SparkTales.
  • Figure 4: SparkTales initiation interface. The area marked with a blue box (A) (abbreviated as Box A) represents the coordinator-visible interface; Box B indicates the coordinator's configuration panel, visible only to the coordinator; and Box C denotes the interface visible to the children.
  • Figure 5: Configuration panel for characteristic configuration and summarization.
  • ...and 7 more figures