In this article, I examine the practice of storytelling in a transplant support group, investigating how individuals’ participation in storytelling activities allowed them to coconstruct collective and individual identities. The sequential ordering and contexts of the storytelling activities in the support group meetings suggest that both the speakers and audience strategically negotiated the m...

Our concepts of story and storytelling have popularly been represented through linear mediums such as books and films. Only in traditions such as theater and oral storytelling, where an author has direct, instant feedback from the audience, has story been able to achieve a more malleable form. The present is pivotal because the evolution of interactive media technology has created new forms of ...

Visual storytelling aims to generate human-level narrative language (i.e., a natural paragraph with multiple sentences) from a photo streams. A typical photo story consists of a global timeline with multi-thread local storylines, where each storyline occurs in one different scene. Such complex structure leads to large content gaps at scene transitions between consecutive photos. Most existing i...

Current state-of-the-art approaches to emotion recognition primarily focus on modeling the nonverbal expressions of the sole individual without reference to contextual elements such as the co-presence of the partner. In this paper, we demonstrate that the accurate inference of listeners’ social-emotional state of attention depends on accounting for the nonverbal behaviors of their storytelling ...

This chapter examines the applicability of storytelling as a way to playfully interact with scientific image data. Arguing that scientific practice can benefit from a moment of openness and playfulness, we propose a story-based interaction with image data as a means to ignite playful and creative responses to scientific images. By means of a literature review, preliminary user studies and the i...