Sprawl's Pastiche

Pastiche scenarios: fiction as a resource for analysing user experience:

Pastiche scenarios draw on fiction as a resource to explore the interior ““feltlife”” aspects of user experience and the complex social and cultural issues raised by technological innovations. This paper sets out an approach for their use, outlining techniques for the location of source material and presenting three case studies of pastiche scenario use. The first case study is an evaluation of...

Pastiche scenarios: fiction as a resource for experience centred design

Pastiche scenarios draw on fiction as a resource to explore the interior ““feltlife”” aspects of user experience and the complex social and cultural issues raised by technological innovations. This paper sets out an approach for their use, outlining techniques for the location of source material and presenting three case studies of pastiche scenario use. The first case study is an evaluation of...

Formats of classroom talk for integrating everyday and scientific discourse: Replacement, interweaving, contextual privileging and pastiche

Pastiche Detection Based on Stopword Rankings. Exposing Impersonators of a Romanian Writer

We applied hierarchical clustering using Rank distance, previously used in computational stylometry, on literary texts written by Mateiu Caragiale and a number of different authors who attempted to impersonate Caragiale after his death, or simply to mimic his style. Their pastiches were consistently clustered opposite to the original work, thereby confirming the performance of the method and pr...

The not-so-simple art of imitation: Pastiche, literary style, and Raymond Chandler

This analysis extends the tools of statistical analysis to the challenging task of distinguishing between genuine works by an author, the preeminent American writer of mysteries, Raymond Chandler, and deliberate attempts by others to mimic the author's style. Rendering the task all the more challenging, the analysis focuses exclusively on the main elements of Chandler's style rather than on his...