Human-AI
Mobile
Storytelling
Strategies and Skills
A fifteen-unit graduate course that teaches students the concepts, technical skills, and professional abilities needed to design, develop, and deploy human-AI collaborative storytelling systems on mobile and cross-platform environments.
Four Pillars of Practice
The Innovation-Based Coaching framework forms the pedagogical backbone of every unit, assessment, and interaction in this course.
Co-Intelligence & Co-Innovation
A structured method for human-AI collaboration where students create iterative, reflective, and critically informed partnerships with AI tools across all aspects of their academic and creative work.
Curious, Critical & Creative
A framework that guides students to approach each problem with genuine intellectual curiosity, thorough critical analysis, and innovative creative thinking.
Detect, Dissect & Discover
An analytical methodology that teaches students to identify patterns and problems, break them down into their parts, and create new understanding through disciplined inquiry.
Map, Measure & Monitor
A practice framework that helps students develop systematic strategies for planning, assessing, and continuously improving their work.
14 Units of Discovery
Each unit is a waypoint on your journey through the landscape of human-AI mobile storytelling.
Strategic Planning for Human-AI Storytelling Projects
Mapping the Landscape — Unit 1 lays the conceptual and practical groundwork for the course by introducing students...
Developing Human-AI Collaboration Skills — Prompt Engineering for Narrative
The Art of the Prompt — Unit 2 builds the essential technical and creative skill of prompt engineering within narr...
The Co-Creation Workflow — Tools and Pipelines
Building the Machine — Unit 3 shifts focus from individual prompt engineering skills to designing and managing co...
Architecting Narrative Systems with Generative AI
Structure Beneath the Story — Unit 4 moves from workflow design to the more complex challenge of narrative system archit...
Agentic AI and Narrative Design
Autonomous Storytellers — Unit 5 explores the frontier of agentic AI systems in narrative design — AI agents that ca...
Mobile AI — Edge Computing and On-Device Narrative
Intelligence at the Edge — Unit 6 examines the technical realities of deploying AI narrative systems on mobile device...
Creating Adaptive and Personalized Narratives
Stories That Know You — Unit 7 examines how narrative systems are designed to adapt to individual users, learning ...
Multimodal Storytelling — Text, Image, Voice, and Beyond
The Full Sensory Story — Unit 8 explores the growing multimodal frontier of human-AI mobile storytelling — combinin...
Cross-Platform and Transmedia Strategies
Worlds Without Borders — Unit 9 covers the design of human-AI storytelling experiences that span multiple platforms...
Measuring Narrative Impact and Audience Engagement
The Science of Story — Unit 10 enhances students' ability to create, apply, and analyze measurement frameworks fo...
Responsible AI Storytelling — Ethics, Bias, and Governance
The Ethical Compass — Unit 11 explores the ethical dimensions of human-AI mobile storytelling — the responsibili...
The Business of Human-AI Storytelling
Commerce Meets Craft — Unit 12 explores the business, organizational, and strategic dimensions of human-AI mobile...
Capstone Project Development and Peer Critique
From Good to Excellent — Unit 13 focuses on intensive Capstone Project development, structured peer critique, and e...
Capstone Project Presentations and Course Synthesis
The Final Expedition — Unit 14 is the culminating unit of the course — showcasing the public presentation of Caps...
Milestones of the Journey
Assessments reward curiosity, critical analysis, creative innovation, and reflective practice — not merely the recall of course content.
CICI Portfolio
End of Unit 15
Unit Innovation Challenges (×5)
Units 3, 6, 9, 12, 15
Analytical Lab Reports (×5)
Units 2, 4, 7, 10, 13
Peer Critique Participation (×5)
Units 5, 8, 11, 14, 15
Midpoint Project Proposal
End of Unit 8
Capstone Project
End of Unit 15
What You Will Master
Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the theoretical, technical, and professional aspects of human-AI mobile storytelling.
Explain the capabilities, limitations, and ethical issues of generative AI systems in narrative design and creation.
Describe the legal, economic, and professional frameworks that govern human-AI creative collaboration.
Design and execute strategic plans for human-AI storytelling projects across multiple platforms and contexts.
Apply prompt engineering, co-creation workflows, and agentic narrative design techniques to create original storytelling artifacts.
Implement evaluation frameworks to assess the quality, effectiveness, and ethical integrity of human-AI narrative systems.
Demonstrate the 3C dispositions — Curious, Critical, and Creative — in approaching new problems in human-AI storytelling practice.
Apply the 3D analytical methodology — Detect, Dissect, Discover — to diagnose and solve complex challenges in narrative system design.
Use the 3M practice framework — Map, Measure, Monitor — to manage and continuously improve human-AI storytelling projects.
Synthesize technical, creative, ethical, and professional aspects of human-AI mobile storytelling into a cohesive, portfolio-grade capstone project.
Prof. Xiaoge Xu
Professor of Branding Studies · Sino-German Faculty of Branding, Zhejiang Wanli University
Xiaoge Xu (Ph.D., Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) is a professor of branding studies at the Sino-German Faculty of Branding, Zhejiang Wanli University, in Ningbo, China. He is the founder of Mobile Studies International, Mobile Studies Congress, and CICI Global. His primary research interests include mobile media, mobilities, and communications, as well as human-AI co-intelligence and co-innovation in communication. He serves as the series editor for the IGI Global AWTT book series and is the founder of Ningbo Xiaoge Culture and Creativity Co., Ltd. Born and raised in China, he has earned four degrees from three countries (China, the US, and Singapore) and has worked at seven international universities across four countries (China, Singapore, Malaysia, and Botswana).