Creative storytelling enhanced through social media and intelligent recommendation

Abstract

Collaborative storytelling is an activity that would boost our creativity and imagination. However, collaborative storytelling systems are not popular and few efforts have been made to support its growth. This research presents WriteYourJourney (WYJ), a collaborative e-storytelling system integrated with social networking media and a recommender system. WriteYourJourney supports the idea of collaborative storytelling by adding in features that increase the interactivity between the users and the system. These features are story and link recommender, story tree visualization, diverse choices of story writing style and chat room. User testing results are positive with regards to usability, effectiveness, learnability and memorability. Users are keen to use the system in the future.