Implicit Knowledge Visualization in Picture-Story Show

A Picture for Every Story

"Chascune hystoire est d'ymage illustree," wrote Gilles Corrozet towards the end of the introduction to his emblem book, Hecatongraphie, published in Paris in I543. He had begun by saying that the chief aims he had in mind when writing his little moral stories were pleasure and instruction but that pictures had been added to make his ideas more vivid; these would also be useful to people other ...

Implicit Motive Profile Analysis: An If-Then Contingency Approach to the Picture-Story Exercise

Picture-story exercise (PSE) measures of implicit motives provide objective, stable, and valid scores. However, PSE scores are also characterized by substantial variability from one picture to the next, resulting in low internal consistency estimates. We argue that this variability is a critical source of the PSE’s validity because it reveals stable if-then contingencies between the situational...

Diana Cell Picture Show - Biology

Images taken in Diana Bratu's lab by Dr. Irina Catrina are featured in Cell's Journal Picture Show that was recently released, called Reproduction. The image titled "The Short End of a Long Stick" shows sperm cells from Drosophila. Flies in the Drosophila genus produce the longest sperm cells on Earth. One species, Drosophila bifurca, has sperm that is 58 mm (2.3 inches) long. Our good friend D...

Automated Scoring of Picture-based Story Narration

This work investigates linguistically motivated features for automatically scoring a spoken picture-based narration task. Specifically, we build scoring models with features for story development, language use and task relevance of the response. Results show that combinations of these features outperform a baseline system that uses state of the art speechbased features, and that best results ar...

Multi-cultural dierentiation in Story Visualization