HP Labs - Research - StoryCast: Simple, digital storytelling ...
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Saved by 3 people (2 private), first by anonymouse user on 2007-03-09
- Kosmikko on 2007-04-13 - Tags dippa , imported , koulu , storytelling , uccesimerkit
- Wisely on 2007-03-09 - Tags no_tag
- Botheredbybees on 2005-08-26 - Tags mobile , storytelling , moblog , blogs , blogging , blog , art , digitalphotography , photoblog , photography , phone , annotations , camera , weblogs
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StoryCast is an experimental digital storytelling service that lets people use their camera phones and other mobile devices to easily create and instantly share stories with friends and family. Each story consists of a sort of narrated slide show of photos accompanied by the storyteller's voice.
StoryCast is spontaneous. Users don't have to wait until they arrive home or travel to a WIFI hotspot to create and share stories. Just as the Polaroid made it easy to snap informal pictures that could be viewed instantly, camera phones present the opportunity to instantly share narrated photo journals.
How it works
Composition is radically simple: Using the mobile phone handset as a microphone, users speak into the phone while clicking on thumbnails of photos they want to describe or that illustrate a story. The user experience is similar to recording a traditional voicemail, with the benefit of allowing users to augment the audio track with pictures.
Once the handset has recorded both the audio track and the corresponding sequence of pictures, it sends the whole message via email, HTTP or MMS. The team implemented this prototype on a iPAQ h6315 camera phone running the pocket PC phone edition operating system. The organizational structure of a story can be represented in SMIL or MPV (XML formats for multimedia presentations).
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