“They All Lived Happily Ever After. Obviously.”: Realism and Utopia in Game of Thrones-Based Alternate Universe Fairy Tale Fan Fiction

And they lived happily ever after.

When I was a little girl, my favorite stories were fairy tales. There was always a beautiful and bright princess who managed to get herself into some difficulty. But no matter how dire her circumstances, Prince Charming came along and gave her a kiss or put the slipper on her foot and rescued her just in the nick of time. We all know how the story ended: and they lived happily ever after. Somet...

RUTH AYLETT AND THEY BOTH LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER ? Digital

In this paper we consider the role of story in digital technology enhanced learning and the issues involved in constructing digital narrative learning environments. We will see that story has played an important role in education for a very long time, well pre-dating the use of digital technologies, and can be closely related to a number of theoretical approaches to learning. However story has ...

“and They All Lived Happily Ever After”? Marital Quality, Marital Dissolution, and Mortality*

From Once Upon a Time to Happily Ever After: Tracking Emotions in Novels and Fairy Tales

Today we have access to unprecedented amounts of literary texts. However, search still relies heavily on key words. In this paper, we show how sentiment analysis can be used in tandem with effective visualizations to quantify and track emotions in both individual books and across very large collections. We introduce the concept of emotion word density, and using the Brothers Grimm fairy tales a...

The NICE Fairy-tale Game System

This paper presents the NICE fairy-tale game system, in which adults and children can interact with various animated characters in a 3D world. Computer games is an interesting application for spoken and multimodal dialogue systems. Moreover, for the development of future computer games, multimodal dialogue has the potential to greatly enrichen the user’s experience. In this paper, we also prese...