This paper describes the design and development of an interactive narrative for the ‘Experimenta Vanishing Point’ media arts exhibition in 2005. The Cocktail Party Effect tells the story of the imminent extinction of Great Apes in the wild using touch and sound in the absence of visual elements. The narrative is driven by haptic-audio exploration of a virtual cocktail glass which functions as a...

Innovation does not mean only creating the new product or services. It is necessary to work out the strategy to lead innovations. Innovators Market Game is a method for creating new ideas by combining existent ideas. In this study, we propose the new way of creating ideas; Rolebased Innovators Market Game. In the game, players take part in the role selected from the real world. For example, jou...

Commentary that observes the frequency of appearances images disaster pervades much discourse surrounding postwar Japanese popular culture, and especially science fiction. Against such approaches, I argue it is more productive to read these narratives through critical lens genre’s engagement with problem futurity. My contention then do not merely function as imaginative repetitions or re-enactm...

Children engage with their imaginative faculties in a variety of ways as they grow and develop. Th ey play simple pretend games starting at about the age of two (Fein, 1981; Nicolich, 1977; Singer & Singer, 1990), which are then elaborated into longer pretend sequences and sometimes into ongoing relationships with imaginary companions (Taylor, 1999) and paracosms (see chapter 27). Children also...

Absorption, a correlate of hypnotizability, is conceptually related to openness to experience. Study 1 found no evidence that gender moderated the correlation between absorption and hypnotizability, or of nonlinear trends. Study 2 showed that openness was factorially complex, and that absorption was related to imaginative involvement, but not to social-political liberalism. Study 3 found small ...