Developments in the field of computer science are creating new methods of learning and teaching. Digital storytelling is one of those fields, which is offering a new way of to educate people. This paper explores potential applications of digital storytelling on different educational levels and will investigate if there is an interest for these applications on the educational market.

The main goal of Business Process Management (BPM) is conceptualising, operationalizing and controlling workflows in organisations based on process models. In this paper we discuss several limitations of the workflow paradigm and suggest that process models can also play an important role in analysing how organisations think about themselves through storytelling. We contrast the workflow paradi...

The focus of this paper is on the analysis of Educational Digital Storytelling Environments (EDSE) using the reference model «Dimension Star» [7]. More specifically, two EDSE were analyzed with the use of this model: (a) Toontastic [6] and (b) Kodu [9] which have been widely used in the educational process. The analysis of these environments showed that the diagrammatic analysis using the above...

Digital Storytelling is a pedagogical tool that has been used for centuries to impart knowledge, values and attitudes. A few models have been developed for the analysis and evaluation of Educational Digital Storytelling Environments (EDSE). A useful, comprehensive and representative evaluation model of EDSE is the “Dimension Star” (Schafer, 2004). This model could be used in the analysis and ev...

A story, or in other words, a set of narratives the form prose conveys real near-real events fictions. Almost every nation has its own unique sense story and storytelling. Every wants to build an identity for itself create this identity, it uses culture as material realizes various expressions. These are first verbal then standardization continue live written form. People have stereotyped their...

Storytelling is a practical and powerful teaching tool. However, teachers have not been zealous to integrate storytelling in the classroom. The reasons for not using storytelling include time and space in the curriculum. Language teachers in Taiwan have additional problems like lacking the skills of integrating storytelling into language teaching, finding appropriate stories and lacking the cul...

Background There is limited study and a lack of systematic review in the field of aromatherapy with orange, and storytelling and their positive effects as a safe, simple and low-cost. The present study is aimed to provide a comprehensive review of the alleviating effects of aromatherapy with orange an...

This article introduces OPARIS, an OPen ARchitecture for Interactive Storytelling, which aims at facilitating and fostering the integration of various and heterogeneous Interactive Storytelling components. It is based on a modular decomposition of functionalities and a specification of the various messages that different modules exchange with each other.

This report focuses on the research possibilities of Interactive Storytelling, concretely in the potential of developing different cinematic tools w ithin a storytelling system, with the intention to provide strong, advanced and coherent narrative capabilities in a virtual environment where stories are generated with virtual actors. The context of the proposal is a virtual scenario, developed w...