Storytelling humankind’s universal choice for content transmission is becoming of great importance in the field of computer graphics, as the human ability to keep track of information in the information society of the 21 century is dependent on the quality of the information providing systems. Basically, the first steps towards storytelling systems have been taken; everyone today has the possib...

BACKGROUND Little is known about how to develop and deliver storytelling as an intervention to support those managing chronic illnesses. This scoping review aims to describe the core elements of storytelling interventions in order to help facilitate its implementation. METHODS A scoping review was conducted in seven databases for articles published up to May 2014 to identify interventions tha...

This paper aims to combine film-editing principles with basic design principles to explore what graphic designers do in terms of storytelling. The sequential aspect of film is designed and examined through the art of editing. Examining the rules, principles and formulas of film editing can be a used as a method by graphic designers to further practice the art of storytelling. There are many pub...

Storytelling systems are computational systems designed to tell stories. Every story generation system defines its specific knowledge representation for supporting the storytelling process. Thus, there is a shared need amongst all the systems: the knowledge must be expressed unambiguously to avoid inconsistencies. However, when trying to make a comparative assessment between the storytelling sy...

Digital storytelling is a modern expression of the ancient art of storytelling and represents a challenging new tool in the service of education. This paper introduces a novel model for the evaluation of the pedagogical soundness of Educational Digital Storytelling Environments (EDSE). This model is based on modern social and constructivist views of learning and is consisted of sixteen dimensio...

Stories help us communicate knowledge, share and interpret experiences. In this paper we discuss the use of storytelling in Business Intelligence (BI) analysis. We derive the actual practices in creating and sharing BI stories from in-depth interviews with expert BI analysts (both story “creators” and “readers”). These interviews revealed the need to extend current BI visual analysis applicatio...

Over the past 30 years, there has been a resurgence in the use of storytelling and narrative in medicine. At first glance, the trend to incorporate art forms into medicine appears to run counter to the rise of the more objective and positivist evidence-based medicine movement. In the present article, the authors provide examples of the use of storytelling and narrative in medicine, describe the...

Storytelling connects entities (people, organizations) using their observed relationships to establish meaningful storylines. This can be extended to spatiotemporal storytelling that incorporates locations, time, and graph computations to enhance coherence and meaning. But when performed sequentially these computations become a bottleneck because the massive number of entities make space and ti...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report on research conducted into the use of stories and storytelling to share knowledge in a large mining company based in South Africa. The paper shows how the use of oral methods combined with other media can be used to support a number of different objectives and yield a wide variety of benefits. Design/methodology/approach – This paper presents the...