The Interactive Storyteller is an interactive storytelling system with a multi-user tabletop interface. Our goal was to design a generic framework combining emergent narrative, where stories emerge from the actions of autonomous intelligent agents, with the social aspects of traditional board games. As a visual representation of the story world, a map is displayed on a multi-touch table. Users ...

This paper presents a user-generated framework for designing affordances that would counter acts of cyberbullying on social media sites. To do so, we used narrative inquiry as a research methodology, which allowed our two focus groups – one composed of teens and the other of undergraduate students – to map out a cyberbullying story and overlay it with a set of design recommendations that, in th...

The Informedia Digital Video Library system extracts information from digitized video sources and allows full content search and retrieval over all extracted data. This extracted ’metadata’ enables users to rapidly find interesting news stories and to quickly identify whether a retrieved TV news story is indeed relevant to their query. Through the extraction of named entity information from bro...

This paper reflects on some issues raised by the reading of Saxinger, Sancho Reinoso and Wentzel essay (published in last issue Fennia) their theoretical methodological concerns how to conciliate geographic information systems (GIS) ontology with representation spatial-fuzzy qualitative data emerging out ethnographic research. Recalling intense debate between cartographers, GIS scientists human...

The order in which user stories are implemented can have a significant influence on the overall development cost. The total cost of developing a system is non commutative because of dependencies between user stories. This paper presents a systematic and lightweight method to identify dependencies between user stories, aiding in the reduction of their impact on the overall project cost. Initial ...