Storytelling serves many different social functions, e.g. stories are used to persuade, share troubles, establish shared values, learn social behaviors, and entertain. Moreover, stories are often told conversationally through dialog, and previous work suggests that information provided dialogically is more engaging than when provided in monolog. In this paper, we present algorithms for converti...

Few studies have investigated multitasking in joint actions, especially two joint actions performed by two people together and coordinated via multimodal communication. We investigate the case of two people walking and talking together, a common combination of joint actions. In an experiment, pairs talked together in four varying conditions of mobility. A narrator told a story to a partner. The...

Virtual agents used in storytelling applications should display consistent and natural multimodal expressions of emotions. In this paper, we describe the method that we defined to endow virtual narrators with individual gesture profiles. We explain how we collected a corpus of gestural behaviors displayed by different actors telling the same story. Videos were annotated both manually and automa...

We present a scientific reflection on the creation of a large illustrative personal data graphics that we create to mimic 18th–19th century style visualizations. We discuss the relationship to illustrative visualization, the story-telling aspects of the design, the used data sources and their purpose, the creation of the overall style, and the aspects of the multi-author creation process.

dolat abadi’s kalidar had been narrated from the intrusive third person point of view. in this way of narration, although the narrator has not physical presence but revealshls his feeling every where in the text. some of critics, like hooshang golshiri, believe that this kind of narration and story telling come from far pasts. the fact is that, the narrator intrusions in kalidar’s stories has m...

Our aim in this paper is to tell the story of how a discourse-based approach to university outcomes assessment can transform the teaching of writing and critical thinking across the curriculum. The institutional assessment plan developed by our university has been influenced by the work of Barbara Walvoord, a pioneering figure in writing across the curriculum. We will illustrate the surprising ...

MEXICA is a computer model that produces frameworks for short stories based on the engagement-reflection cognitive account of writing. During engagement MEXICA generates material guided by content and rhetorical constraints, avoiding the use of explicit goals or storystructure information. During reflection the system breaks impasses, evaluates the novelty and interestingness of the story in pr...

In this paper we present two tangible interactive entertainment interfaces using physical cubes. In the first paradigm, Magic Story Cube, we novelly used a foldable cube for tangible and interactive story telling. In the second paradigm, Jumanji Singapore, physical dices are used to directly manipulate and control the process Jumanji board game. In both of our systems, we embedded both the conc...

Previous work on story-telling ability in autism spectrum conditions (ASC) has found a pattern of relatively intact use of story grammar in ASC narratives; however, prior analysis has concentrated primarily on whether specific story components are included, rather than how they are included. The present study analyzes an existing narrative dataset, concentrating on the kind of information that ...

In this article I discuss an excerpt from a group discussion between five 15year-old boys who, in the presence of an adult moderator, engaged in the act of ‘slut bashing’ while telling a minimal story about an incident of female promiscuity. The analysis proceeds microanalytically in a three-step procedure that details the positions taken by the young participants during the interaction. First,...