Museums and Art Galleries are challenged to inspire, engage and involve visitors by presenting their collections within physical exhibitions. Curators and exhibition professionals are increasingly telling stories using digital interactivity. This work introduces Quando, a visual programming based toolset that domain experts can use to create interactive exhibits. A small case study demonstrates...

My aim is to give an overview of what minds are and how they came to be. Minds are a product of billions of years of evolution so it is a daunting task to summarize this history in 45 minutes. My attempt will involve vast oversimplifications, highly speculative and condensed “just so” stories, and a great amount of hand waving. In particular, I will presuppose the theory of evolution and will n...

Entertainment-education dramas can persuade because they show characters who change their behavior to improve their lives. Stories have unique power and nuance to describe people’s behavior and interactions, and their consequences. When audience members see that they could be in the same situation as the characters, stories can move them to change, too. E-E is particularly able to influence beh...

A content analysis was conducted to examine sexual consequences on teen programming. The sample consisted of prime-time television dramas that featured characters between the ages of 12 and 22 years. Two major goals guided the study. First, the types of sexual consequences in teen programming were investigated. Results showed that emotional and social consequences far outnumbered physical conse...

Drama, at least according to the Aristotelian view, is effective inasmuch as it successfully mirrors real aspects of human behavior. This leads to the hypothesis that successful dramas will portray fictional social networks that have the same properties as those typical of human beings across ages and cultures. We outline a methodology for investigating this hypothesis and use it to examine ten...

Objective: Autism Spectrum Disorder(ASD) causes severe damage to children’s social skills, cognitive functions, and emotional self-regulation. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of drama therapy on the social skills of children with high functioning autism. Methods: The research design was experimental with a pre-test, post-test, and a control group. The statistical p...

up to now, studies of mirza agha tabrizi's works (a pioneer of iranian drama) have been carried out from the perspective of the evolutionary history of drama in iran. but this paper explores the enlightening aspects of these texts about social life in iran before the constitutional revolution. furthermore, the present study discovers a potentially aesthetic revolution in these works. by ma...

This study explores the distinctive collective attitudes among local community associated with Mystery Play of Elche, which was designated a Masterpiece Oral and Intangible Heritage Humanity by UNESCO on 18 May 2001. A qualitative, exploratory descriptive methodology adopted via in-depth interviews to identify how perceives experiences this medieval liturgical drama. The results confirm that fu...