2019 has been the most violent year on record for health workers in Democratic Republic of Congo. Attacks healthcare coincided with first-ever Ebola outbreak an active conflict zone. Many attacks response were perpetrated by civilians who intended to disrupt response, which turn contributed spread virus. Why would communities attack very people trying protect them from disease? This mixed-metho...

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Recently, philosophers have discovered that they have a lot to learn from, or at least to ponder about, fiction. Many metaphysicians are attracted to fiction as a model for our talk about purported objects and properties, such as numbers, morality, and possible worlds, without embracing a robust Platonist ontology. In addition, a growing group of philosophers of mind are interested in the impli...

While the far-fetched ideas brought up with imagination are shedding lights on Science Fiction Movies, occasionally ever-growing technology has been fuelled by these creative inspirations and imaginations. This article reflects on the findings of the data visualization project Dystopia-Utopia (www.dystopia-utopia.com) and investigates the existence of a common discourse that would stand out in ...

Closely related genres have complex interrelations. An antecedent genre can constrain a subsequent genre, but changing rhetorical situations can lead to distinctions between an antecedent and its descendent. In this study, we assess two genres of detective fiction to determine their hierarchical relation to one another. We use the Gramulator, a computational tool that identifies indicative lexi...

Adventure games, and specifically the textual kind that are works of interactive fiction, are actually cooperative games. How people cooperate to solve them is not well understood, however. We describe ifMap, a system to allow interactors trying to solve a work of interactive fiction together online to create a shared map. The system is based on cooperative hypermedia and combines different hyp...

Understanding others' mental states is a crucial skill that enables the complex social relationships that characterize human societies. Yet little research has investigated what fosters this skill, which is known as Theory of Mind (ToM), in adults. We present five experiments showing that reading literary fiction led to better performance on tests of affective ToM (experiments 1 to 5) and cogni...