Envisioning Narrative Intelligence: A Creative Visual Storytelling Anthology

Abstract

In this paper, we collect an anthology of 100 visual stories from authors who participated in our systematic creative process of improvised story-building based on image sequences. Following close reading and thematic analysis of our anthology, we present five themes that characterize the variations found in this creative visual storytelling process: (1) Narrating What is in Vision vs. Envisioning; (2) Dynamically Characterizing Entities/Objects; (3) Sensing Experiential Information About the Scenery; (4) Modulating the Mood; (5) Encoding Narrative Biases. In understanding the varied ways that people derive stories from images, we offer considerations for collecting story-driven training data to inform automatic story generation. In correspondence with each theme, we envision narrative intelligence criteria for computational visual storytelling as: creative, reliable, expressive, grounded, and responsible. From these criteria, we discuss how to foreground creative expression, account for biases, and operate in the bounds of visual storyworlds.

Metamorpheus: Interactive, Affective, and Creative Dream Narration Through Metaphorical Visual Storytelling

“…Previously, HCI researchers also found that creative activities such as bullet journaling [5,87] or visual storytelling [39,91,92] can facilitate self-reflection and promote mindfulness through a creative meaning-making process. To track emotions, for example, bullet journalists were found to come up with individualised, decorative, and artistic representations of moods, such as Mandala, Origami, text narrative, etc [5].…”