Adaptation of stories – as a translation between media, such as literature and film – is explored for genres of interactive storytelling that make use of highly-interactive and user-adaptive technology. A concrete case study of transforming and abstracting a Hemingway short story is discussed in detail. The conclusion is that even though Interactive Storytelling content has to follow formal mod...

This study develops a self-generated drawing environment for the support of young children’s writing and storytelling skill through the implementation of drawing, writing, and storytelling activities. In particular, each student used a tablet PC to share a story and drawings based on written text. An experiment was conducted in a primary school with 116 1st grade students from four classes (div...

Many organisational gurus highlight the value of oral narrative or storytelling as a catalyst for organisational change or a way to share knowledge. Tomes of articles describe seasoned raconteurs single handedly inciting enormous transformation in organisations. Oxymoronically many written works are describing the power of oral narrative. Surely these printed exposés are themselves motivators f...

The telling of tales is often thought to be characteristic of all human dis­ course, and it is fashionable to speak of narrative as a universal form of ex­ pression, one that is applied both to the life experiences of individuals and to the dramas of social interaction. Storytelling in oral cultures in turn is seen as the foundation on which the novel is built in literate ones, and the activity...

background:children are sensitive to the crises produced by disease and hospitalization because they have a limited adaptive mechanism to solve the stressful factors. to do this, paying attention to those approaches that are not drug- based in children is very important. the purpose of this research in to determine the influence of storytelling on physiological, worry and social anxiety of hosp...

Storytelling is a well known and ancient art form. Fascinating and compelling characters have animated literature around the world from the beginning of the written word. Today, scientific research has laid the foundations for a sound empirical understanding of storytelling as a clear aid to memory, as a means of making sense of the world, as a way to make and strengthen emotional connections, ...

This demonstration presents PaSSAGE (Player-Specific Stories via Automatically Generated Events), a decision-making AI that uses player modelling to dynamically select the content of an interactive story. Through player modelling, PaSSAGE provides game designers with the opportunity to delay their design decisions to run-time, allowing further refinement based on an automatically learned model ...

Real-time 3D game environments provide a compelling medium for cinematic storytelling. Professional filmmakers have started using them for pre-visualization. They provide a low-cost learning environment to students. Longboard is an intelligent storyboarding tool that provides content authors access to 3D graphical environments through an intuitive sketch based interface. Users can author script...