The HOC – Hypermedia Open Center at Politecnico di Milano, is working on interactive storytelling for kids. They are currently collaborating with the Tech Lab, Switzerland. The TEC lab have developed an ad hoc software to enable storytelling. The software is called 1001Stories, is a web-based platform and enables production of little multimedia objects (pictures + text + audio recordings) and output them as a website + ITunes app + CD. The multimedia obj need some redesign, both graphic and interaction wise, here an example in italian.
The interesting bit is that they are actually running successful projects that reached a big audience, apart from using it as a presentation format for their own stuff. PoliCultura is an initiative that had involved many Italian primary and secondary schools using the technology described above. The project have the shape of a contest, the schools submit research around a topic produced with or by the kids, using the 1001Stories tool for organizing the pictures and recordings. I really would like to try it out and see what can be done better. I’m also interested in the idea of using mobile devices as data collectors to bind it back to the city context.
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