Video Nation and the related project Capture Wales were both huge influences on me when I first started working in television. It was an introduction to different possibilities for telling stories, outside of the traditional commissioning structure I was used to. Later I found out about the NFB’s Challenge for Change project that started in the 1960s. I find it both comforting and humbling to look at the historical roots of participatory and digital storytelling projects.

This is still one of the best examples of using the interaction to tell the story. The interaction is the story in many ways with the border constantly present.

Jonathan Harris has always interested me because he both embraces and resists technology. I don't think I'm alone in saying that this project made me realize how data and information can become part of how we tell stories.

Aaron Koblin's work also influenced me in terms of his use of data, design and creative code to reveal new kinds of stories about the world. Flight Patterns is beautiful but The Sheep Market is funny (and a little disturbing when you consider his use of Amazon Mechanical Turk).

I love the use of design and audio in this project to convey a deep sense of loss and nostalgia. Welcome to Pine Point is just really beautifully done. Like a photo album discovered in a trunk in an attic that comes to life.

Extraordinarily powerful use of data visualization to tell a story. Flawlessly done and very disturbing.

This project brings really fabulous technical production values together with a very moving story to question how wild the wilderness actually is.

Gorgeously done. I never get sick of watching this and it's a fantastic example of user-generated work that actually works.

Elaine McMillion created something really special with this long-scroll, hyper-local storytelling project.

Beautiful interface design. Kat's collaborative storytelling methodology also brings so much warmth and thoughtfulness to everything she does. She makes stories with people rather than about them and I think it shows.

Difficult to watch but so beautifully done. A lovely example of soft interactivity.

I am increasingly obsessed with thinking about how objects and stories come together and for me BlabDroid was the first project where I started to think about what stories objects would tell. Obviously these robots need some human help but where will the internet of things and connected devices take stories in the future?

Not really a documentary I guess, although there are certainly documentary elements to this wonderfully joyful user-generated re-imagining of the Star Wars universe.

An upcoming project about creative code that is created using creative code. Form and content coming together.