HUMOROUS ANECDOTES AS MOTIVATIONAL TOOL IN PURPOSIVE COMMUNICATION

Anecdotes

The well-known Arpanet was the first operational packet-switching network. 1 Almost completely unknown is what we claim was the second operational packet-switching network, the LFK Network—although, admittedly , it was a fairly minimal network. Work on the LFK Network began in fall 1970, and it was installed and accepted by fall 1972. It was used as part of a logistics system relating to the No...

Storytelling as a Motivational Tool in Digital Learning Games

The following article provides a theoretical framework for the usage of storytelling in digital learning games as a motivational tool. The centre of this framework is the concept of a virtual extrinsic motivation. This concept is developed in reference to design structures in entertaining digital games, Rheinberg’s extended cognitive model of motivation and Zillmann’s affection disposition theo...

Anecdotes

Carotid plaque screening as a motivational tool for healthy behavior.

To the Editor: Re: “Does detection of carotid plaque affect physician behavior or motivate patients?”, published online in the American Heart Journal in October 2007 and printed in December 2007 by Rachael A. Wyman, MD, Giorgio Gimelli, MD, FACC, Patrick E. McBride, MD, MPH, FACC, Claudia E. Korcarz, DVM, RDCS, and James H. Stein, MD, FACC In their observational study to evaluate the impact of ...

Anecdotes and Antidotes – Stories as Balms, Storytelling as Healing

The following article refers to a performed presentation, from the Double Dialogues Conference, Art & Pain, at The University of Melbourne, May 10, 2003. The presentation involved an audio-visual configuration in which I was speaking whilst simultaneously vision-mixing ‘live’ images from a camera and images from a pre-recorded videotape. The pre-recorded images were from the creative video prac...