Laura Boffi
ABSTRACT
The Storytellers Project is a library service connecting a community of senior readers to children and their families for remote reading aloud sessions. Children use the Storybell robot at home to connect with seniors willing to read, the Storybell robot transmits their reading and projects on the wall pictures of the story being read. The paper describes the people centred research process as the project is still a concept in its research phase.
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