Engaging Users in Writing Imaginary Conversations on Cultural Heritage Paintings

Edutainment approaches based on digital interfaces and tools are becoming an effective way for engaging the audience in enjoying Cultural Heritage (CH) assets. In this paper, we propose Canvas Conversation Tales (CCT), a web application for collaboratively writing conversation-based stories on CH paintings. As main functionalities, CCT allows users to compose their own conversations or continue someone else’s stories about a given painting, with the ability to comment and vote on the imagined exchange of dialogue lines from others. CCT is online and available for testing. Ongoing and future work including evaluation activities are discussed in the paper.