Sexual Violence Tells Stories

The Storyteller: Building a Synthetic Character That Tells Stories

This paper introduces the Storyteller, a synthetic character that tells stories. Our goal is to obtain an expressive and believable embodied agent that can resemble a real human storyteller. The several aspects concerning the conception of the character, as well as some preliminary results, are presented in this document.

Drug addictions and sexual violence in childhood and adolescence: analyzing life stories

The sexual violence (SV) suffered in childhood and adolescence significantly affects the physical and mental health of the victims who are subjected to pain, shame and guilt, requiring them to adopt coping strategies of these feelings. The use of alcohol and drugs is a recognized way of dealing with the pain of living. This work of narrative feature analyzes and discusses through the life story...

Bullying and Sexual Violence

The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Abstract Bullying experiences and male sexual violence (SV) perpetration are major public health problems, and while extant literature suggests that they may share some developmental correlates, there is no established emp...

Sexual Violence in India

Social constraints and sexual violence: experiences of female victims of sexual violence of receiving health care services

Because of the nature of sexual violence, using medical services by female victims is different from use of these services in other circumstance. Thus, this qualitative study was conducted using conventional content analysis to understand particular experiences of female victims of sexual violence of receiving medical services. In-depth non-structured interviews were performed with 10 purposefu...