In this paper we present the results of a qualitative study regarding the experiences evoked by today's technology. Our goal was to gain better understanding on the content, generation and progression of everyday experiences of users with all kinds of artifacts such as computer software, mobile devices, consumer products and even hardware tools. We conducted semifocused interviews with the goal...

In this paper, a system is described that can understand a plot of a story on reference to both image and linguistic information. As input, a series of line drawings with colors and narrations in English concerning to these drawings are given to the system. It searches the objects suggested to be in the scene by the narrations, finding relations among them, making the world model by using its w...

This study looks at the syllable onset interval (SOI) patterning in Taiwan Mandarin spontaneous speech and its relationship to discourse and syntactic units. Monologs were elicited by asking readers to tell stories depicted in comic strips and were transcribed and segmented into Discourse Segment Units (Grosz & Sidner, 1986), clauses, and phrases. Results showed that the degree of final lengthe...

In this paper we describe short mobile video story tests that have been done by using several authors/ users as story composers in the MoViE platform, which enables users to share, communicate and compose short mobile video stories in a networked community. The starting point of our study is the possibility to create an entertaining, dramaturgically intensive and coherent story from various sho...

Cryptographic protocols are often specified by narrations, i.e., finite sequences of message exchanges that show the intended execution protocol. Another use narrations is to describe attacks. We propose in this paper compile, when possible, attack describing into a set tests honest participants can perform exclude these executions. These be implemented monitors protect existing implementations...

Quelles que soient les méthodes et techniques utilisées pour leur réalisation, cartes résultent avant tout de processus intentionnels communication. Dans ce papier, nous proposons décrypter 3 interactives dynamiques portant sur l’épidémie Covid-19 avons développé au cours ces derniers mois, en y détaillant à chaque fois choix cartographiques sous-jacents. En d’autres termes, décrypter, delà des...