Narratron

Xiying Bao, Yubo Zhao

Narratron is an interactive projector that augments hand shadow puppetry with AI-generated storytelling. Designed for all ages, it transforms traditional physical shadow plays into an immersive and phygital storytelling experience. Users are encouraged to develop the story and change the plot at any point by simply posing a different shadow as a new character. Human-AI interaction, at this point, transcends the responder-respondee dichotomy as a tangible form of co-creation.