This paper addresses the question as to what sort of role storytelling plays in the formal mentoring process. Firstly, the individual’s personal competence which is divided into knowledge and socially based competencies, and how this competence alters in the course of the individual’s working life, is illustrated. Secondly, due to the fact that the mentor’s competence is transferred from his or...

‘Implicit Creation’ – Non-Programmer Conceptual Models for Authoring in Interactive Digital Storytelling Ulrike Martina Spierling Interactive Digital Storytelling (IDS) constitutes a research field that emerged from several areas of art, creation and computer science. It inquires technologies and possible artefacts that allow ‘highly-interactive’ experiences of digital worlds with compelling st...

Collaborating in small groups can be beneficial to children's learning and socializing. However, there is currently little computer support for children's collaborative activities. This was our motivation for building KidPad, a collaborative storytelling tool for children. KidPad provides children with drawing, typing, and hyperlinking capabilities in a large, two-dimensional canvas. It support...

Since the inception of role-playing games in the 1960s, interactive, collaborative storytelling and making has filled a niche for those who are not always satisfied with merely reading a novel; being able to creatively influence the story as it unfolds holds a greater appeal [5]. With the proliferation of modern personal computers in the 1980s, a new role-playing market evolved, where pre-writt...

Love, Simon (2018) is an American comedy-drama film directed by Greg Berlanti and based on Becky Albertalli's novel vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (2015) about email correspondence between another male student from his high school. Digital Simon's voiceovers form backbone of storytelling. Comparing book film, with a particular focus written communication narrator's inner voice, one can observe dif...

The purpose of this focused program evaluation was to explore attitudes and beliefs about storytelling as a strategy for coping with cancer among participants who attended a cancer-related storytelling workshop. The response rate was 70% (n = 94) and included persons with a diagnosis of cancer, their loved ones, and members of the public. The program coordinators used a theoretical model descri...

Recently work on the grammar of spoken English has advanced through the use of large, general, and varied corpora of the language, including corpora of spoken discourse. Here I review the research that has been emerging from the availability of such corpora, much of it emphasizing the need for new ways of conceptualizing spoken grammar, to replace the traditional reliance on grammatical models ...

The “Coming Home” project at the University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies was started in 2009 to research how virtual worlds could facilitate health care activities for returning US military personnel, who frequently suffer from psychological and physical challenges. These challenges include increased stress and loss of selfesteem related to the war events they ha...

The development of digital journalism, an important area of storytelling, has focused primarily on incorporating interactive multimedia components to traditional linear news stories. In this paper, we propose a new approach that places central focus on text, the core of journalism, based on insights from fictional interactive digital storytelling. Drawing upon the convention of interactive fict...

The formation of linked thought patterns, the ability of expressing oneself in an artistic and written form, spatial sense and modern media skills based on reflection are effectively promoted if children in schools are taught in such an interdisciplinary way that they creatively enrich their physical environment through multimedia and interactive systems. This paper is divided into three parts:...