Interactive storytelling (IS) is a promising new entertainment technology synthesizing preauthored narrative with dynamic user interaction. Existing IS prototypes employ different modes to involve users in a story, ranging from individual avatar control to comprehensive control over the virtual environment. The current experiment tested whether different player modes (exerting local vs. global ...

The purpose of this narrative study was to describe the role and potentials of drama groups for enhancing and maintaining well-being for female drama group members living with HIV in Uganda. Six semi-structured interviews were carried out and analyzed through a thematic analysis. The analysis was made within a theoretical framework based upon Sen's notion of the capability approach and social p...

since the beginning of the nineteenth century onward , arabic drama has preserved a close relation to the heritage. one of the most famous dramas s using the classical elements is “al-malik howa-l-malik” ( the king is the king) written by the syrian dramatist “sa’dallah wannous”. in composing this drama ,he has been inspired by one of one thousand and one nights fables namely “an-naim wa-l- yag...

Technology, especially multimedia technology, is changing the way we tell stories. We are all familiar with letters, articles, and books, but new Internet technology has led to two novel forms of storytelling that we call micro stories and mega stories. Micro stories are the short bits of text and images that we use to tell our friends about our daily life, what we had for lunch, and the funny ...

Schellenberg (2004) assigned 144 6-year-old children to one of four treatments in a pretest-posttest design. Subjects experienced either keyboard, Kodaly voice, drama, or no lessons over an academic year. Schellenberg reported a significant difference of 2.7 IQ points if the keyboard and voice results were combined and contrasted against the combined drama and no-lessons results. Steele (2005) ...

IDtension is an Interactive Drama project initiated 10 years ago (Szilas, 1999). It aims at providing long term solutions to the problem of combining narrativity and interactivity. IDtension has been demoed in 2002 (COSIGN) and 2006 (IUI, TIDSE). Our motivation to demo IDtension again is twofold: 1) IDtension has never been demoed in North America; 2) The newest version has been improved and ai...

IT is exceedingly difficult to assess the position held by women in fifth-century Athens.1 When we examine their position in fourth-century law, we find them defined as near slaves, or as perpetual minors. In fifth-century history, at least as Thucydides saw it, there were no women. Yet women play a prominent part in Athenian literature and visual arts; they are not invisible, not helpless as. ...