Abstract
Stories are a cultural universal that allow us to refect on the way we live. Through the act of storytelling, we structure and express our perosonal experiences and understandings of the world in a form that can be passed on to others -- as words, imagery, sounds, and gestures. In today's increasingly digital and networked society, we can create media platforms that allow our personal stories to becoe public and shared. In this paper, we present a tangible platform that has been designed to support the sharing of collaboratively constructed multimedia stoies in a social setting. We discuss the way this platform was used in two large-scale personalized storytelling workshops, and examine how it served to engage participants in a self-reflective story revealing process.

Proceedings, ACM SIGMM 2003 Workshop on Experiential Telepresence (ETP '03) Berkeley, California, November 7, 2003, ACM Press, pp. 105 - 109.
http://mf.media.mit.edu/pubs/conference/TangiblePlatform.pdf