This paper introduces the novel concept of location-based Mobile Urban Dramas. In a Mobile Urban Drama the user become the main character in a play where actors’ voices appear in the mobile phone headset linked to the physical setting in the city as the stage for the drama. The paper describes the dramaturgical concept and introduces a software framework supporting drama writers in developing s...

The qualitative interview is one of the most important data gathering tools in qualitative research, yet it has remained an unexamined craft in IS research. This paper discusses the potential difficulties, pitfalls and problems of the qualitative interview in IS research. Building on Goffman’s seminal work on social life, the paper proposes a dramaturgical model as a useful way of conceptualizi...

Virtual reality environments provide the possibility to create interactive stories with the audience being an active part of the narrative. This paper presents our work on transferring cinematographic knowledge with respect to dramaturgical means of expressions of cameras to the domain of interactive narratives. Based on this formalisation we developed an autonomous real-time camera agent imple...

Abstract Perceived self-efficacy is often held to be the most focal mechanism of human agency. It has shown strong potential explain action in multiple areas highly relevant understanding crime, at least when concept formulated close connection with conditions that characterize criminal acts it supposed explain. This article introduces context white-collar crime. To advance our how opportunitie...

examines the function of planning in a democracy and establishes a context for analysis. The second portrays planning in Halifax by specifically focusing on two land use dispute case studies. The third examines the governmental, cultural, and ethical variables that manifest themselves in the case studies. The fourth asks how this greater understanding informs our theories of democracy and plann...

Social scientists have studied human behavior from the dramaturgical perspective (DP), through which society is viewed as an elaborate play or game in which individuals enact different roles. The DP is more than a theoretical construct; members of individualist, secular societies occasionally adopt the DP with relation to their own lives. The current research examined the consequences of adopti...

This article examines encounters with darkness through compositions of houselights and their elimination, arguing that not all brushes are alike. While eradicating directs seeing focuses attention, which already implies a dramaturgical-compositional significance, the design light in auditorium is predominantly relegated to preshow preamble will quickly be switched off. In response, I propose pl...

Come with us to read a new book that is coming recently. Yeah, this is a new coming book that many people really want to read will you be one of them? Of course, you should be. It will not make you feel so hard to enjoy your life. Even some people think that reading is a hard to do, you must be sure that you can do it. Hard will be felt when you have no ideas about what kind of book to read. Or...

This is a reworked version of the first letters to Polish/Belgian choreographer Kinga Jaczewska, which I presented at PSi #25 in Calgary. The letter dramaturgical reflection on possibilities small sonic intervention Jaczewska’s performative installation Meanwhile (2019). explore and consequences non-breath for experience audience.