B usiness publications are filled these days with stories about the digital or electronic economy. One routinely reads about e-commerce, e-business, and e-banking. Terms such as e-mail and e-tickets have entered the common lexicon. Some analysts have gone so far as to proclaim that the U.S. economy is being fundamentally transformed and is entering a “new age” of unparalleled growth and opportu...

Traditional Newspapers have been struggling to find a new business model to economically survive in this new wave of digital social revolution. This study uses ontology of a multi-gated model to suggest that program designers use different kinds of most popular news cues to satisfy diverse citizens’ needs. Different concepts of citizens are discussed theoretically in exploring how a social sema...

Computer game authoring offers young people the opportunity to create their own interactive digital stories. This activity has strong educational potential, but authoring tools have provided little to no interface representational support for the storytelling aspect of the task until now. Narrative Threads, a suite of tools which provides this support, is presented here, including a description...

$%675$&7 We describe an approach to a new authoring method for interactive storytelling. After positioning digital storytelling in a theoretical context to literature, we consider the author’s view of the tools to be used and introduce a coherent environment that does not restrict the creative process and lets the author feel comfortable, leading him to create well-narrated, interactive non-lin...

Segmenting news video into stories is among key issues for achieving efficient treatment of news-based digital libraries. In this paper we present a novel unsupervised algorithm that combines audio and video information for automatic partitioning news videos into stories. The proposed algorithm is based on the detection of anchor shots within the video. In particular, a set of audio/video templ...

The process of effectively applying techniques for fostering creativity in educational settings is – by nature – multifaceted and not straightforward, as it pertains to several fields such as cognitive theory and psychology. Furthermore, the quantification of the impact of different activities on creativity is a challenging and not yet thoroughly investigated task. In this paper, we present the...

In order to use computational intelligence to assist in narrative generation, domain knowledge of the story world must be defined, a task which is currently confined to experts. In an effort to democratize story world creation, we present an accessible graphical platform for content creators and end users to create a story world, populate it with smart characters and objects, and define narrati...

Several frameworks and platforms are used for learning or for building virtual environments for game-based learning. In games based on virtual worlds an enormous amount of knowledge is exchanged. But we believe compared to games stories provide more explicit knowledge transfer. For that reason we developed an Interactive Digital Storytelling (IDS) Platform called Scenejo, which we use to build ...

The Bleek and Lloyd Collection contains notebooks that document Bushman stories and culture and are available as digital scans [1]. Converting these images to text, through a process known as transcription, would allow for the text which appears in the notebooks to be searched, indexed and compared. However, automatic transcription of Bushman texts is difficult due to the diacritics that span m...

Stories naturally reveal themselves to us through space and over time. Today's digitally networked society provides a fertile environment for the exploration of narrative forms in new and diverse ways. The Digital Dialogues Symposium provided the setting for a series of experimental approaches to the recording and documenting of an event in time. Using custom designed software, participants col...