Writing is a critical literacy skill that emerges in kindergarten. The research literature has only addressed transcription skills of kindergarteners and failed to address text generation. purpose this action-research study was investigate the effect oral language instruction focused on narrative structures kindergarten students’ ability generate written text. We conducted concurrent multiple b...

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...

A great deal of research concerning mechanisms to interpret, manipulate and generate stories in different media has been carried out. The basic concepts related to ontologies and their components are introduced. We review then the role of ontologies in storytelling including the distinction between fabula, suzjet and narrative. Several recent innovative initiatives that provide interesting devi...

In this paper we discuss a case study for which we applied a customized augmented reality display –the Virtual Showcase– as a new platform for digital storytelling. Different storytelling components are identified and examples for their specific realization are explained. Our case study focuses on communicating scientific information to a novice audience in a museum context. Addressing first us...

In Interactive Digital Storytelling (IDS), new design processes are needed for authors to fully embrace the emergent properties of this dynamic novel medium. As a counterpart to traditional explicit authoring in storytelling, “implicit creation” is introduced as a conceptual framework. By describing the development steps of a specific IDS application – the Killer Phrase game – and starting out ...

The paper introduces an approach for the realization of a dynamic and contextual storytelling engine that can allow the dynamic supply of narrative contents, not necessarily predetermined and pertinent to the needs and the dynamic behaviors of the users. In particular, the system adopts an adaptive and social approach, using a contextual model in order to realize a dynamic digital storytelling ...