User stories are a widespread instrument for representing requirements. They describe small user-oriented parts of the system and guide the daily work of developers. Often however, user stories are too coarse, so that misunderstandings or dependencies remain unforeseeable. Granularity of user stories needs to be investigated more, but at the same time is a hard-to-grasp concept. This paper inve...

Narration is a tool to organize experience into coherent vision that explains our identity. According Paul Ricoeur, fictional characters and real people’s identities are made out of the use discourse. The tradition narrative therapy states importance letters, notes, certificates strengthen alternative stories co-built with person in sessions. digital format makes it easy not only send but also ...

Abstract This chapter engages with the myriad ways in which silence operates fiction—three novels and three collections of short stories—of Kevin Barry. Inevitably, focus falls mostly on male protagonists Barry’s narratives. Suffering variously from a general malaise Irish maleness whose symptoms include loneliness, isolation, low self-esteem, characters, while often outwardly loquacious, remai...

The Internet contains many HIV/AIDS data visualizations, and many sites where users can post personal stories about HIV/AIDS, but features no resources that display stories in the context of data. In an effort to increase HIV/AIDS awareness and decrease stigma, this visualization provides an integrated view of HIV/AIDS data and stories from the individuals behind the numbers. Author

Several scholarly trends, such as narrative medicine, patient-centered and relationship-centered care, have long advocated for the value of the patient's voice in the practice of medicine. As theories of textual analysis are applied to the understanding of stories of illness, doctors and scholars have the opportunity to develop more nuanced and multifaceted appreciation for these accounts. We r...

User stories form the heart of the Extreme Programming methodology planning game. In its turn, Extreme Programming is one of the supporting pillars of the wider Agile Software Development process. The user stories form a set of central work products that determine the software development processes. In the spirit of Extreme Programming the production of user stories is kept as simple as possibl...

Stories capture the characteristics of the design space and audience that designers and engineers need to understand to build a complete and useful software experience. A story is a design communication tool that transcends the cultural divides of multidisciplinary teams and intertwines a technology with its user’s goals. This article describes how stories are powerful tools in software design,...

We address the problem dealing with skewed data, and propose a method for estimating effective training stories for the topic tracking task. For a small number of labelled positive stories, we extract story pairs which consist of positive and its associated stories from bilingual comparable corpora. To overcome the problem of a large number of labelled negative stories, we classify them into so...

Mothers from two middle-class contexts from Berlin, Germany (n = 35), and Delhi, India (n = 28) told a baby story to their 3-year olds about an event that had happened during the children's first year of life. The contexts represented two cultural models: the model of psychological autonomy (Berlin) and the model of autonomy-relatedness (Delhi). We investigated the culture-specific functions of...