Aims
STORYTEL aims to stimulate innovative learning and teaching in higher education by focusing on spontaneous storytelling embedded in conversations - a still underestimated and yet primordial form of communication, and the origin of all contemporary (especially digital and telecinematic) forms of storytelling. The project will reinforce the EU leadership in the study of large AI language models by unlocking the multimodal complexity of telling stories in human face-to-face communication.
Activities
The activities will see teams of the University of Cologne (coordinator), the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, the University of Murcia, and the University of Bologna working together to extract data from speech and bodily movement from conversations videorecorded by students with their smartphones. The teams will produce a digital tool for the detection of multimodal features in conversational storytelling, and organise courses around that tool, by embracing bottom-up teaching perspectives.
Impact & Outcome
The main expected outcomes are the active engagement of students and the development of a user-friendly platform uncovering the multimodal integration of words, voice, and bodily movements in conversational storytelling. STORYTEL will impact teaching strategies, theories of human communication, media computer science, and European-based AI language models. Long-term benefits are the optimisation of computing facilities and joint development of larger projects on intangible cultural heritage.
Contact information
Please contact Madeleine Frings (madeleine.frings[at]uni-koeln[dot]de) for information and assistance.
