undoubtedly, holy books are fundamentally and substantially different from that of written by mankind. these celestial words have categorized such holy books as the artistic and literary masterpieces of its kind. in fact, most of the language rules based on verse and literary beauty had token from aforementioned books.the method of storytelling in holy quran is in the way which by reading the s...

lover’s person's life, often the source of the narrators and transmitters. for this reason, love stories in literature people of different have occupied a large space. the stories have many similarities in structure. layla and majnun story is the most famous and most ancient arabic tales has a major influence in the development of persian literature. iranian literary love stories and the s...

This paper presents a framework for asynchronous awareness. Awareness tools are potentially powerful for the support of long-term team collaboration processes. In this paper we outline the particularities of long-term awareness and introduce stories as a means to present awareness information. We show different approaches to present awareness stories and describe the results of our laboratory u...

For most of human history, human knowledge was considered to be something that was stored and captured by words. This began to change when Galileo said that the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics. Today, Dan Dennett and many others argue that all genuine scientific knowledge is in the form of mathematical algorithms. However, recently discovered neurocomputational algorith...

Stories can be powerful argumentative vehicles, and they are often used in arguments from analogy, most notably as parables or allegories where the story illustrates an important claim of the argument. Case Based Reasoning in Law has many similar features. In this article, we want to take a further step at computationally modelling the connection between stories and argumentation in analogical ...

We present research showing the possibility of finding stories in a digital text archive through computational methods. Referring to the concept of "archival bond", we define stories as formed by documents that relate to a target activity. We developed a method called paragraph alignment to find such documents and an interactive visualization to discover connected stories in context with proven...

User stories allow customers to easily communicate desired specifications as part of Agile Software Development methods. When elicited from groups instead of individuals, the number of stories generated and the comprehensiveness of the stories is likely to increase. We present a 2 X 2 study design involving group vs. individual user story brainstorming with one or two sentence vs. unlimited use...

This paper describes the design of an authoring tool, ISISS (Improving Social Interaction through Social Stories), for supporting practitioners using social stories to enhance social interaction in children with Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC). The goals of the research are: 1) to determine practitioners’ current procedures when working with social stories; 2) to discover how technology can be...

Past media effects research suggests a relationship between morbid curiosity and processing of television news; however, the cognitive and emotional processes involved are little understood. This study compared physiological effects with self-reported reactions of viewers exposed to negative news stories. Fifty adults were shown eight news stories ranging from morbidly negative to positive topi...