When we hear a story that describes motion, do we naturally imagine the motion described? To what extent do the mental images generated through language share processing resources with perception? In our studies, people read a story describing upward or downward motion and were later asked to interpret an unrelated ambiguous figure. The figure could have been seen as a bird flying upward or dow...

During times of upheaval, storytelling can become a bridge to establish organizational trust and convey essential service information. When the doors University British Columbia Library’s physical branches closed in March 2020, work performed by librarians library staff across campus didn’t stop—instead, it pivoted, shifted expanded. UBC Library's Communications & Marketing team created thr...

There is a class of joke which consists of an anecdote, which is sometimes quite long and often has no inherently humorous content, followed by a ®nal line which is a distorted form of some well-known phrase, proverb or quotation. Usually this ®nal line purports to summarize or draw a moral from the preceding story. This genre has some unusual aspects, from the viewpoint of conventional claims ...

Although the use of images as well as movies has proven very valuable for presentation purposes in volume visualization, these methods still lack a certain feature, that has become state-of-the-art in other visualization areas, namely interactivity. Giving the consumers of a presentation more interactive freedom would allow them to further investigate the presented visualizations as well as to ...

Illicit drug use amongst criminalized Aboriginal women is a serious health concern in Canada. Little is understood about how women 's healing is impacted by their views of themselves as, and the stigma associated with being, a drug user, involved in crime and an Aboriginal woman in Canadian society. In this article we address two ways in which women's often silenced voices have uniquely guided ...

T story is written by a 90-year-old World War II veteran who is revered by both his family and his community, including his nurse and other health professionals who supervise his care. His wife passed away several years ago, but because of the devotion of his family and his engagement with the community, a 24-hour network of care has been arranged, and he is able to remain in his home. For exam...

Storytelling is a distinct speaking style which embraces various expressive subtleties aimed to draw the attention of the children. Studies have shown that Text-to-speech (TTS) systems have the tendency of not conveying the right emotion expressivity in their speech outputs. The objective of this work is to develop prosody models to capture the story semantics present in the Hindi children stor...

Narrative accounts of illness often focus on the sociological construction of illness and neglect the body. This paper explores themes of seeing and being seen in the narrative of an HIV positive man to show the importance of uncovering the psychological and corporeal experience of HIV. Such accounts complement and enhance conventional medical accounts of illness. Poignantly, it is a story of h...

Recent years have seen an emerging interest in narrativecentered learning, ushering in a wave of research on adaptive story-based systems for education and training. Among the aims of current narrative-centered learning work is the creation of environments that draw students into the story while simultaneously satisfying pedagogical goals in an enjoyable, motivating, and effective manner. In th...

A map is at the same time a group. To represent a map (that is, a graph drawn on the sphere or on another surface) we usually use a pair of permutations on the set of the \ends" of edges. These permutations generate a group which we call a cartographic group. The main motivation for the study of the cartographic group is the so-called theory of \dessins d'enfants" of Grothendieck, which relates...