To tell a story, you need a protagonist: how dynamic interactive mediators can fulfill this role and foster explorative participation to mathematical discourse

How to Tell a Logical Story

At the center of most plots in literature is a main character, who is stuck in a conflict and considers different arguments and options to resolve the conflict. In this paper, we show how to formalise such an argumentation process and we develop a formal argumentation framework, which caters for a declarative semantics of an argumentation process and an operational, efficient, goal-driven, top-...

How Can You Tell That’s a Door?

Object recognition is a task that people learn as small children, but which presents significant challenges for robotics. For some purposes, objects can be recognized by robots through detection of color transitions (outlines) presumed to be unique in a given environment, as with the spherical ball used in robot soccer competitions. Where outline alone is not determinative, but where the robot ...

Let Me Tell You a Story - On How to Build Process Models

Process Modeling has been a very active research topic for the last decades. One of its main issues is the externalization of knowledge and its acquisition for further use, as this remains deeply related to the quality of the resulting process models produced by this task. This paper presents a method and a graphical supporting tool for process elicitation and modeling, combining the Group Stor...

Define and Conquer: How Semantics Foster Progress; A Response to Recent Commentaries

How to tell a new story about battering.

As Evan Stark observes, getting domestic violence against women recognized as coercive control will require a major effort of storytelling. Women's accounts of subjugation have to be narrated in a way that is both true to their experiences and capable of eliciting public understanding, sympathy, and action. This essay draws on an interdisciplinary literature on narrative to show why doing that ...