Interactive Narration Requires Interaction and Emotion

This paper shows how interaction is essential for storytelling with a child. A corpus of narrative dialogues between parents and their children was coded with a mentalist grid. The results of two modelling methods were analysed by an expert in parent-child dialogue analysis. The extraction of dialogue patterns reveals regularities explaining the character’s emotion. Results showed that the most efficient models contain at least one request for attention and/or emotion.

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