Abstract Family Tradition Theater is the application of Integral Drama Based Pedagogy in community family education. Centered around ancient wisdom “Life Harmony”, i.e., delight way life and admiration harmony, incorporates five ideas Chinese culture into relationships to find obstacles these ways communicate. Specifically, they start with core values – filial piety, faith, righteousness propri...

We consider the distribution planning problem in the motion picture industry. This problem involves forecasting theater-level box office revenues for a given movie and using these forecasts to choose the best locations to screen a movie. We first develop a method that predicts theater-level box office revenues for a given movie as a function of movie attributes and theater characteristics. Thes...

Virtual Forum Theater is a web-based participatory and collaborative digital drama designed to enhance expressive fluency, argumentation skills, and critical awareness. The theoretical framework is based on Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Freire, 1972), constructivism (Piaget, 1977), constructionism (Papert, 1980), Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) (Koschmann, 1996) as well as Theater...

This paper describes an experimental performance where theater clowns make a show using Virtual Reality (VR) technologies. The classical theater scenery is replaced by a large-scale screen on which 3D models are displayed in real-time, allowing the clowns and the audience to be immersed in highly interactive virtual environments (VEs). We put on a scenario where the clowns and the audience trav...

In this work, the surgical theater of a local hospital in KSA was analyzed using simulation. The focus was on attempting to answer questions related to how many Operating Rooms (ORs) to open and to analyze the performance of the surgical theater in general and mainly the Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) to assist making decisions regarding PACU staffing. The surgical theater consists of ten ope...

Every Monday morning, Pathé Theaters in the Netherlands decides which movies in its cinemas to retain and which to replace. It must choose replacement movies from those available at that time. We implemented the SILVERSCREENER model, a mathematical-programming system [Swami, Eliashberg, and Weinberg 1999] to help Pathé managers make those decisions for one six-screen theater, and tested its per...

The Improvisational Theater Space is an interactive stage where human actors can perform accompanied by virtual actors. Virtual actors are modeled as animated \Media Creatures" that are behavior-based automous software agents. We used Artiical Life programming methods and behavior-based design to avoid rigid scripting of performers and media interaction. Media Creatures allow content to be acti...