The document discusses collaborative storytelling on the Web 2.0, emphasizing the roles of new media and community engagement in educational gaming and multimedia production. It highlights various projects and research initiatives at RWTH Aachen University, exploring non-linear storytelling, mobile multimedia management, and the integration of community feedback through expert and amateur contributions. The conclusions suggest that storytelling and educational gaming are crucial for emotional involvement and innovative learning models, as part of a larger educational strategy.

1. Informatik 5 (DBIS)
RWTH Aachen University
TeLLNet
GALA
Collaborative Storytelling on the Web 2.0
Ralf Klamma
RWTH Aachen University
TERENCE Workshop, L3S, Hannover, Germany
January 21, 2011
Lehrstuhl Informatik 5
(Informationssysteme)
Prof. Dr. M. Jarke
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2. GALA
I5-KL-111010-2
Prof. Dr. M. Jarke
TeLLNet
Lehrstuhl Informatik 5
(Informationssysteme)
RWTH Aachen
Motivation
From MIST to youTell
Extension to Storytelling
Web 2.0 Monitoring
Agenda
Conclusions and Outlook

3. RWTH Aachen University
• 260 institutes in 9 faculties as Europe’s
leading institutions for science and research
TeLLNet • Currently around 31,400 students are enrolled
GALA in over 100 academic programs
• Over 5,000 of them are international students
hailing from 120 different countries
• 1,250 spin-off businesses have created
around 30,000 jobs in the greater Aachen
region over the past 20 years.
• IDEA League
• Germany’s Excellence Initiative:
3 clusters of excellence, a graduate school
Lehrstuhl Informatik 5 and the institutional strategy “RWTH
Aachen 2020: Meeting Global Challenges”
(Informationssysteme)
Prof. Dr. M. Jarke
I5-KL-111010-3

4. Community Information Systems
Research Group
TeLLNet
GALA
 Established at DBIS chair, RWTH Aachen University
 9 Phd students & researchers
 10-15 paid student workers & thesis workers
Lehrstuhl Informatik 5
(Informationssysteme)
Prof. Dr. M. Jarke
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5. Motivation
 New models of participation on the Web 2.0
TeLLNet
– Flickr.com, YouTube – the multimedia Web 2.0
GALA
– Prosumers – amateurs and experts
 From storytelling to educational gaming
– Stories lay the foundation for successful games
– Emotional identification of listeners/gamers
M. Spaniol, Y. Cao, R. Klamma, P. Moreno-Ger, B. Fernándaz Manjón,
J. Luis Sierra, G. Toubekis: From Story-Telling to Educational Gaming:
The Bamiyan Valley Case, in:Proceedings of 7th ICWL, Jinhua, China,
August, 2008, pp. 253-264
Lehrstuhl Informatik 5
(Informationssysteme)
Prof. Dr. M. Jarke
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6. Yiwei Cao, Ralf Klamma, Matthias Jarke
Mobile multimedia management for Virtual Campfire –
the German excellence research cluster UMIC
International Journal on Computer Systems, Science and Engineering
(IJCSSE), 25(3): 251-265, May 2010
TeLLNet
Semantization
GALA
Multimedia management: tagging,
semantic annotation
Data repository: cultural heritage,
Web 2.0 user generated media etc. Contextualization
Mobile multimedia production
Mobile provisioning
Lehrstuhl Informatik 5
(Informationssysteme)
Prof. Dr. M. Jarke
I5-KL-111010-6 Mobile media creation, sharing, and storytelling Multimedia storytelling: collaboration, stereotyping

7. Collaborative Non-Linear Storytelling
TeLLNet
GALA
Lehrstuhl Informatik 5
(Informationssysteme)
Prof. Dr. M. Jarke
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8. Movement Oriented Design
Non-linear MM Storytelling
Creation of non-linear multimedia stories
TeLLNet Definition of story paths compliant to Movement
GALA Oriented Design (Victoria University)
Linkage of story
elements with
multimedia
contents
MIST story
editor
Marc Spaniol, Ralf Klamma, Nalin Sharda, Matthias Jarke,
Lehrstuhl Informatik 5
(Informationssysteme) Web-Based Learning with Non-linear Multimedia Stories,
Prof. Dr. M. Jarke Proceedings of ICWL 2006, Penang, Malaysia, July 19-21, 2006,
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9. YouTell: A Web 2.0 Service for
Collaborative Storytelling
 Collaborative storytelling  Tagging
 Web 2.0 Service  Ranking/Feedback
TeLLNet  Story search and “pro-  Expert finding
GALA sumption”  Recommending
Ralf Klamma, Yiwei Cao, Matthias Jarke
Lehrstuhl Informatik 5 Storytelling on the Web 2.0 as a New Means of Creating Arts
(Informationssysteme)
Prof. Dr. M. Jarke
Handbook of Multimedia for Digital Entertainment and Arts, Springer, 2009
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10. youTell Role Model
 Elements of
TeLLNet – Web 2.0
GALA
– Media Production
– CoP
 What could be
an appropriate
role model for
a learning
system?
Lehrstuhl Informatik 5
(Informationssysteme)
Prof. Dr. M. Jarke
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11. Profile Based Story Search
TeLLNet
GALA
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(Informationssysteme)
Prof. Dr. M. Jarke
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12. Bubble Annotation Tool:
Storytelling with Fun
TeLLNet
GALA
Lehrstuhl Informatik 5 Anna Hannemann, Christian Hocken, Ralf Klamma
(Informationssysteme) Community Driven Elicitation of Requirements with Entertaining Social Software
Prof. Dr. M. Jarke
I5-KL-111010-12 Software Engineering 2009 Workshop-Band, Germany, Kaiserslautern, March 2-6, 2009

13. The Hero’s Journey
Template-based Storytelling
Departure Series of Initiation
The Call to tests and
Adventure tasks
TeLLNet
Spirited
GALA Super-
away Meeting
with
natural Aid Become Goddess/ Apotheosis
a King Oracle
Refusal of
the Call
Reared by
foster
parents The
ultimat
e Boon
Physical Driven from Final
separation the throne conflict
Refusal Return
Dies of the
return Crossing
of the return
One or threshold
more holy Freedom
sepulchers to live
Lehrstuhl Informatik 5 Yiwei Cao, Ralf Klamma, Martin Hristov
(Informationssysteme) The Hero's Journey - A Storytelling Template Engine for Ubiquitous Multimedia
Prof. Dr. M. Jarke
I5-KL-111010-13 3rd IEEE International Conference on Ubi-Media Computing (U-Media), July 5-7, 2010, Jinhua, China

14. Storytelling as a Self-monitoring Tool
for Communities
TeLLNet
GALA
Storytelling
• Requirements Service • Self monitoring
engineering • Mobile interfaces
• Multimedia metadata
• Scenarios design
service
• Multimedia semantic
and context mapping
service
Community Community
Service Service
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Prof. Dr. M. Jarke
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15. IKYDA: Non-linear Digital Storytelling
for the Battleship “G. Averof”
 Targeted at (semi-) professional cultural heritage management:
Battleship Averof (managed by Greek Navy)
TeLLNet
 A great amount of multimedia material with insufficient
GALA
management expertise
 Story template based storytelling
 GIS integrated multimedia storytelling with 3D media
Lehrstuhl Informatik 5 E. Gadolou, H. Papadaki, E. Stefanakis, G. Kritikos, Y. Cao, A. Hannemann, R. Klamma, D. Kovachev
(Informationssysteme)
Prof. Dr. M. Jarke
Storytelling, Spatial Standards and Cultural Heritage Management
I5-KL-111010-15 13th AGILE International Conf. on Geographic Information Science: Geospatial Thinking, Guimaraes, Portugal, May 10-14, 2010

16. Community Service & Requirements
Engineering
TeLLNet
GALA
Lehrstuhl Informatik 5 Yiwei Cao, Anna Hannemann, Ralf Klamma, Dejan Kovachev, Dominik Renzel
(Informationssysteme)
Prof. Dr. M. Jarke
Mobile Multimedia Management for Community-aware Storytelling
I5-KL-111010-16 11th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'10), May 23-26, 2010, Kansas City, MO, USA

17. Mobile Service Oracle for Success
 Monitoring of service invocations
 Time and position tracking of a service call
TeLLNet
GALA
 Recognition of patterns in user behaviour
Lehrstuhl Informatik 5 Dominik Renzel, Ralf Klamma
(Informationssysteme)
Prof. Dr. M. Jarke
Semantic Monitoring and Analyzing Context-aware Collaborative Multimedia Services
I5-KL-111010-17 2009 IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, 14-16 September 2009 / Berkeley, CA, USA

18. Community Monitoring
Experts vs. Amateurs
 Community behaviors: experts spent more time on the services
TeLLNet
 Experts prefers semantic tags while amateurs uses “simple” tags frequently
GALA  Community tags: experts use more precise tags
Lehrstuhl Informatik 5
Dominik Renzel, Yiwei Cao, Michael Lottko, Ralf Klamma
(Informationssysteme) Collaborative Video Annotation for Multimedia Sharing between
Prof. Dr. M. Jarke
Experts and Amateurs, WISMA 2010, Barcelona, Spain, May 19-20, 2010
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19. CoP: Collaborative Storytelling
TeLLNet
GALA
 Knowledge value of community sorted by keywords
 Amateur created data uncertainty
 CoP cultivate experts and expert knowledge
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(Informationssysteme)
Prof. Dr. M. Jarke
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20. Conclusions & Outlook
 Storytelling and Educational Gaming are important for
TeLLNet emotional involvement
GALA
 Web 2.0 and Collaboration extend capabilities of
classic storytelling approaches by new
– Role Models
– Social Learning Models
– Community Self-Monitoring and Self-Assessment
 NoE GALA - Learning and Gaming Alliance
 STEG 2011 Workshop at ICWL 2011, Hongkong
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(Informationssysteme)
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