Many modern games suffer from a trade-off between the degree of interactivity and the dramatic quality of the story. In Facade, an interactive drama system, the player can use natural language input and physical actions to find his way through a domestic quarrel of a couple s/he is friends with. To achieve interactivity and flexibility, the story is structured as a set of beats. Beats are short...

The origins of this issue reside in a season of television dramas, entitled ‘United Kingdom!: Radical Television Drama Before and During Thatcher’, that ran at BFI Southbank from November to December 2009. The season was conceived by members of staff (Susanna Capon, John Hill, Jonathan Powell and Rob Turnock) in the Department of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London and was jointl...

We present DRAMA [1], a distributed policy-based network management system, with a demonstration outline. This system was designed to manage mobile ad hoc networks, which pose various unprecedented network management challenges of different nature. To tackle these challenges, we craft a distributed management system and learn through experience that its generic design allows it to support other...

Virtual reality drama has the benefit of enhancing immersion, which was lacking in original e-learning systems. Moreover, dangerous and expensive educational content can be replaced by stimulating users’ interest. In this study, we investigate the effects of avatar performance in virtual reality drama. The hypothesis that the psychical distance between virtual characters and their viewers chang...

Keberadaan budaya populer Korea di Indonesia memang tidak bisa diragukan lagi. Salah satu yang masih eksis adalah drama Korea. Sejak pertama kali ditayangkan pada tahun 2002, tetap menjadi program pilihan bagi sebagian penonton Indonesia. Hal ini membuat semakin dan serta pesaing terberat industri hiburan Pandemi Covid-19 melanda seluruh penjuru dunia menyurutkan eksistensi Korea, bahkan masa p...

My part in a lifesaving drama was small... or so I thought.

The article dwells on the use of drama and performance techniques in education social work connection with multiple intelligence theory, emotional brain based learning. author connects alternative theories teaching learning recent neuroscientific research, lays out an integrative approach to that promotes inclusion, diversity, awareness, through embodied contextualized If we perceive cognition ...

In the history of the Rice Dramatic Club, there have been occasions when it has fallen in the power of the or ganization to produce outstanding modern dramas by contemporary playwrights—plays rich in enter ta inment quality, subtle in humor ; plays which live in the minds of the a u dience long af ter the final curtain falls. Such plays as "The Roynl Family," "Hay Fever ," and "Hell Bent for He...