Generating Interactive Stories with ChatGPT to Teach Filipino Values

Abstract

Interactive storytelling uses digital media to engage readers to interact with the author’s narrative through key decision points in the story. This has been shown to be an effective learning resource in teaching across various disciplines. Designing interactive storytelling systems typically require handcrafted storytelling knowledge and branching story graphs. Generative AI offer an opportunity for facilitating the production of interactive stories. In this research, we utilized ChatGPT to provide the storytelling knowledge for Kulturuan, a system that teaches the Filipino value of pakikipagkapwa-tao or hospitality to grade school students. Prompts are formulated to instruct ChatGPT to generate bits and pieces of the story text. Results from experiments and refinement of carefully formulated prompts showed ChatGPT’s potential as a knowledge resource for interactive storytelling systems, thus eliminating the need to expend time and effort in building a separate story graph. However, further downstream tasks are needed to process the resulting story text to fit the interactive environment of Kulturuan.