While the art of storytelling has been around for thousands of years, the advent of Computer-Assisted Language learning (CALL) revived the ancient form of the story reading. This paper examines the effects of exposure to audio-visually enhanced flash stories on story retelling of EFL learners. Thirty two Iranian EFL English learnerswithin an age range of11-13 were randomly assigned to two group...

The design of digital memory technologies is arguably one of the grand challenges of Human-Computer Interaction research. Objects and places often mediate access to personal and collective memories and allow recollections of past experiences. Tales of Things is a tagging service that uses two-dimensional barcodes (QR Codes) and RFID tags to enable people to attach stories and memories to any ob...

Often, computer games require meaningful stories and complex worlds in order to successfully engage players. Developing a high-quality story and rich characters can be one of the hardest tasks in the game development process. Narrative is a key element in building game worlds for interactive digital entertainment. I am particularly interested in computational narrative algorithms that can analy...

Digital storytelling, an innovative way of writing, has been introduced to young learners who are taught construct stories with digital tools convey their knowledge and ideas. In 2018 2019, 31 created by Hong Kong primary school students were published on a story writing platform linked from online gamified reading platform. Each book average gained 4,000+ views across the globe received 3,000+...

Virtual presentation of cultural heritage is significantly enhanced through the interactive digital storytelling. The common approach is to access the digital stories by clicking the interactive nodes within the virtual environment. We introduce a different method which enables the users to interact with the story and branch to hyperlinked digital content, which can contain virtual environments...

Different tools are used in the evaluation of digital stories. However, it is thought that evaluations teachers at least as important formal and technical evaluations. The aim this study was to investigate middle school mathematics teachers’ 36 Furthermore, end process, examine their views on use stories learning environment. participants were seven teachers. data analysed by content analysis. ...

Although becoming a more racially-integrated society, the legacy of Apartheid still affects learners’ social engagements in and outside their classrooms. Adopting Nussbaum’s (2010) capabilities framework for a socially just democracy, this paper examines 27 pre-service teacher education students’ perceptions of a digital storytelling project and its potential for recognising and honouring capab...