Recently artists are exploring ways for incorporating large amounts of information and networking as part of their medium. One of the main challenges in applying information technology to film and opera is in relating different types of media to the meaning of story narrative. Opera of Meaning is a new format for distributed, collaborative and interactive viewing where the association of differ...

This paper describes the design and development of an interactive narrative for the ‘Experimenta Vanishing Point’ media arts exhibition in 2005. The Cocktail Party Effect tells the story of the imminent extinction of Great Apes in the wild using touch and sound in the absence of visual elements. The narrative is driven by haptic-audio exploration of a virtual cocktail glass which functions as a...

the correspondence between the elements of a story and its illustration has been eminent in the history of persian painting, achieved by the painter in both explicit and implicit manners. in fact, the painter painted the harmonious illustration by utilizing the essence and dominant element of the story. to do so, the painter confined himself to the most influential scenes of the story to be dep...

The collaborative generation of narratives is interesting for its potential to generate, utilising diverse knowledge bases, more interesting stories than those generated individually, and because it provides us with tools to analyze and understand how the creative communication occurs among computers and ultimately among human beings. This research aims to prove that computer agents (computer p...

The present study sought to explore the impact of story maps and audio podcasts as scaffolds on oral proficiency of Iranian EFL learners. The quasi-experimental study was launched with 36 EFL undergraduates in three groups by adopting a counterbalanced 3  3 Latin squared design. All participants were indiscriminately, but in a specified order, exposed to the three treatment conditions of story ...

The rapid growth of online digital information over the last decade has made it difficult for a typical user to find and read information [13]. One way to address the problem of information overload is to tailor that information to specific user interests, needs and knowledge base. If there is an approach that responds to individual information requests with an original, dynamically built story...

The importance of sound and music in movies (Film Scoring) is undeniable. Film Scoring is used as a complement to the visual content helping to better understand it. The use of these artistic elements can be extended to interactive storytelling (IS) environments where stories are also told in a dynamic and interactive way. Because of IS particularities, such as the unpredictability of user acti...

literary adaptation is recasting literary books such as novels, short stories, or even poems in a new form such as films, stage plays, or even video games. persian literature abounds with dramatic events. there are many fascinating narratives such as shahnameh of ferdowsi, khmseh of nezami, mathnavi of rumi, and tarikh-e beyhaghi of beyhaghi, which have the dramatic capacity of literary adaptat...

The opera Death and the Powers by Tod Machover tells the story of a man, Simon Powers, who evades death by transferring his essence into his environment as his corporeal body dies. To realize the effect of the theatrical environment coming alive as the main character, the Opera of the Future research group at the MIT Media Lab developed new technologies and control systems for interactive robot...

The researcherss have attempted to study the short story, “The Bogey Beast” by Flora Annie Steele with lens of Martin Seligman’s Positive Psychology (Optimism). elements and effects Martin’s (Optimism) were aimed be found out in story inducing concept Optimism. No past investigations been carried this particular under subject. opened up topic provide clues his readers that can everlasting, ever...