Abstract: Story-telling(ST)is an important activity to train children’s language expression ability.With the development of novel human-computer interaction technologies,a numerous of researches have been done aiming for integrating these new technologies into ST scenarios,and a series of ST prototypes and commercial systems have been developed.This paper reviewed researches in the field of ST in the last decade,and discussed technical requirements of the ST scenarios,as well as how interactive technologies can be applied in the scenarios.Typical ST systems categorized by application scenarios were summarized and introduced.To address the problems of the existing systems,this paper proposed a set of methods for designing ST applications based on a scenario tree design tool(SDT).Finally,the paper concluded with a discussion of future development in this field.