In this paper, we introduce the concept of Visual Storytelling Warehouse, an interactive XML-based automatic cartoonstyle visual storytelling system to generate new stories based on written story structures and user’s requirements. The Warehouse will consist of the visual and no-visual elements including characters, events, background images, and story plots. Each of these elements will be asso...

Interactive experience in a virtual world. We take the line that children need to be both engaged in the action through role play and given the opportunity to reflect on the significance of their actions to understand something of their significance in terms of both the narrative and its ethical significance. This requires a system that incorporates the children’s actions into the unfolding plo...

This paper proposes the RTDWD (Real-time Distributed Wideband-Delphi) tool, a real-time collaborative web application for user stories estimation through the Wideband-Delphi method. RTDWD realizes, in a lightweight way, virtual meetings for a critical phase of the requirements management in distributed Agile development processes, such as Distributed eXtreme Programming. The web 2.0-based natur...

• Top stories identification: A task that addresses news-related issues on the blogosphere, namely investigating whether the blogosphere can be leveraged to identify the top news stories of a given day in a real-time fashion. The task has also a search diversity flavour, where for a given story, a representative set of blog posts discussing the story from various perspectives [7] is shown to th...

Mining textual documents and time series concurrently, such as predicting the movements of stock prices based on the contents of the news stories, is an emerging topic in data mining community. Previous researches have shown that there is a strong relationship between the time when the news stories are released and the time when the stock prices fluctuate. In this paper, we propose a systematic...

Mining textual documents and time series concurrently, such as predicting the movements of stock prices based on the contents of the news stories, is an emerging topic in data mining community. Previous researches have shown that there is a strong relationship between the time when the news stories are released and the time when the stock prices fluctuate. In this paper, we propose a systematic...

What do stories in games have common with political narratives? This book identifies narrative strategies as mechanisms for meaning and manipulation real life. It shows that the mechanics so clearly identifiable are increasingly used (and abused) politics social They »many faces«, displays interfaces. occur texts, recipes, stories, dramas three acts, movies, videos, tweets, journeys of heroes, ...

We present two systems which are used today in industrial applications. While they are very different, and the two domains have no overlap, they share the properties that the problems they address were considered very hard to solve, and the requirements were very constraining, especially complete automation. We jirst present a system which automatically registers two sets of halfone color separ...

This work presents an evaluation of ToBoA-3D, a social web platform for the annotation of 3D models and the creation of stories. ToBoA-3D was evaluated through a pilot study realized in a real educational context, the 2014 edition of the Fall School in Digital Humanities, held at the Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia in collaboration with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). The to...