Drawing is valued as a non-verbal assessment tool to measure children’s conceptual development and emotional state. Drawing has also been described as a problem-solving activity and unique symbol system. Although drama has been known to facilitate learning in other symbol systems, such as reading and writing, and to bring about advances in perspective taking and understanding of emotion, its im...

1Often, video game designers must choose between creating a restrictive, linear experience and designing an open world with many different story lines that fail to form a tightly crafted narrative arc. A drama manager (DM) can provide a solution to this dilemma. A DM monitors an interactive experience, such as a computer game, and intervenes to shape the global experience so that it satisfies t...

Many modern games suffer from a trade-off between the degree of interactivity and the dramatic quality of the story. In Facade, an interactive drama system, the player can use natural language input and physical actions to find his way through a domestic quarrel of a couple s/he is friends with. To achieve interactivity and flexibility, the story is structured as a set of beats. Beats are short...

The origins of this issue reside in a season of television dramas, entitled ‘United Kingdom!: Radical Television Drama Before and During Thatcher’, that ran at BFI Southbank from November to December 2009. The season was conceived by members of staff (Susanna Capon, John Hill, Jonathan Powell and Rob Turnock) in the Department of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London and was jointl...

We present DRAMA [1], a distributed policy-based network management system, with a demonstration outline. This system was designed to manage mobile ad hoc networks, which pose various unprecedented network management challenges of different nature. To tackle these challenges, we craft a distributed management system and learn through experience that its generic design allows it to support other...