David C. Wyld et al. (Eds) : CSEN, SIPR, NCWC - 2016 pp. 21–30, 2016. © CS & IT-CSCP 2016 DOI : 10.5121/csit.2016.61002       Islam Sharaha 1 and Amal AL Dweik 2 1 Master of Informatics islamsharaha@gmail.com 2 Dept. of Computer Engineering and Sciences Palestine Polytechnic University (PPU) Hebron, Palestine amal@ppu.edu ABSTRACT Interactive Digital Storytelling (IDS) is concerned with the creation of a new media art form that allows real-time interaction with a developing narratives. IDS is important learning, training, testing and entertainment tool. This paper makes a systematic review that compares several approaches used in (IDs) in terms of user interaction type, degree of interaction importance, classification of approaches types, and comparing approaches in terms of some performance factors. KEYWORDS Digital Interactive Story Telling, time- interaction, degree of interaction. 1. INTRODUCTION AND THEORETICAL BACKGROUND Storytelling is the process of creating narrative structures or engaging with them, which is pervasive in many aspects of children’s life. It has different definitions such as: "Storytelling is one of the oldest methods of communication and learning" [Tharrenos et al, 2015]. As [Nuri et al, 2013], the storytelling is an important way to share experiences, thoughts, and imaginations between people in term of verbal statements. In a child's world, the storytelling is a great tool to reflect children's feelings. A storytelling is a good way for learning about identity and communication as it enables the exploration of one's inner world [Benjamin, 1998] Interactive Digital Storytelling (IDS) is concerned with the creation of a new media art form that allows real-time interaction with a developing narrative [Stefan Rank et al, 2012]. [Lathem SA, 2005] defined Digital storytelling as a combination of traditional, oral narration with different types of multimedia (like: image, text, video and music) with communication tools. As [Benjamin, 1998], there are three functions that narrative should serve, and must be carefully analyzed to produce a good story: cognitive, social and emotional function. There are three levels of the story creation. The first level is the storyline or plot; which is a series of chronology and causally related events that make up the story’s content. Storyline can be a