Enclosure stories: narratives from Northamptonshire

Learning From Stories: Using Crowdsourced Narratives to Train Virtual Agents

In this work we introduce Quixote, a system that makes programming virtual agents more accessible to nonprogrammers by enabling these agents to be trained using the sociocultural knowledge present in stories. Quixote uses a corpus of exemplar stories to automatically engineer a reward function that is used to train virtual agents to exhibit desired behaviors using reinforcement learning. We sho...

Stories in Between: Narratives and Mediums @ Play

Narratives and Neurons: Stories of Damaged Brains

Stories register in human memory in special ways, and stories about neurological cases can entertain and move a reader while simultaneously being an important part of any neuroscience curriculum. Here we describe a course taught in the context of the liberal arts curriculum of Baldwin-Wallace College. Students from a variety of disciplines learned basic neuroanatomy, neurophysiology and neuroch...

Patient safety stories: a project utilizing narratives in resident training.

Incident reports have traditionally been the vehicle for identifying, assessing, and responding to quality gaps in hospitals. Yet because of a variety of barriers, residents often fail to participate in this formal process. The authors created a project to engage residents in incident reporting through the use of an online, anonymous narrative format, faculty-facilitated discussion groups, and ...

New Narratives: Stories and Storytelling in the Digital Age

Introduction In recent years developments in digital technology have played a signii-cant role in the transformation of narrative theory and practice. Stories that exploit the capacity of digital media (that is, those that necessitate the computer for their production and display) have provided vital new territory against which the tools of narrative analysis could be tested and reened. As such...