The Handmaid’s Tale: An Intertextual Transformation through Storytelling

An Architectural Tale of the Two Cities

A comparative study of the corresponding styles of Western and Iranian modern architecture has hardly ever been carried out in detail. This paper aims to sketch out an outline for such an investigation and to present a summary of empirical evidence accompanied by field observations to elaborate the ongoing trend of relationship between architectural styles in Iran and that of the West. This is ...

An intertextual study of the role of

Proving the influence of the Chinese pictorial tradition on Iranian art after the rule of the Mongol patriarchs has become an undeniable theory among researchers. The existence of dragons, ivy and ivy forms have been attributed to the Chinese; But this article adopted a different approach. Based on the belief that this world is the world of texts, he intends to read a sub-text of the large text...

A Tale of Election Day 2008: Teaching Storytelling through Repeated Experiences

Teaching IT through storytelling

This article explores the use of storytelling as part of an overall approach to the teaching of information technology in tertiary education. The author defines the context of use of storytelling in terms of the various types of education being delivered and the delivery methods, and then explores the potential uses and benefits of storytelling. A sample story is included and briefly analysed t...

Adaptive Storytelling Through User Understanding

Storytelling, when happening face to face, is a highly interactive process. A good storyteller attracts the audience by continuously observing their responses and adjusting the storytelling accordingly. The goal of this project is to simulate this process in digital storytellers. We created an automatic storytelling system that periodically estimates the user’s preferences and adapts the conten...