While analyzing the narratives of children receiving pediatric oncology treatment and their parents, we encountered three ways to look at their narratives: what was narrated, nonnarrated, and disnarrated. The narrated refers to the actors (characters) and events (scenes) individuals decided to include in the narration of their experiences, the nonnarrated are everything not included in narratio...

The goal of this research is to develop new gameplays and new narration principles for MUGs (Multiplayer Ubiquitous Games). We aim to formalize a narrative mechanism to generate events which can stimulate the user's physical actions with the real world, and social communications with other players. We first present a pattern to identify the feedback relationship between the real world and the v...

This paper attempts to prove the significance of the viewing context and reception of an image for the developments in the modes of narration used to depict a scene and subsequently that scene’s iconography. In particular, it will examine the iconographic and narrative evolution of images depicting the vengeance of Achilles in Late Archaic black-figure vase-painting as well as in a series of Ro...

Computer-based multimedia learning environments — consisting of pictures (such as animation) and words (such as narration) — offer a potentially powerful venue for improving student understanding. How can we use words and pictures to help people understand how scientific systems work, such as how a lightning storm develops, how the human respiratory system operates, or how a bicycle tire pump w...

This paper discusses conceptual organization and exploration in the context of a Knowledge Manifold, which is a framework for individualized learning that was introduced in [(10)]. It also presents an overview of the Garden of Knowledge as an example of a KM and describes the basic design goals of the GoK project. Moreover, the paper introduces the idea of a concept browser and presents a set o...

Narration is a usual mode of sense-making in the new, ambiguous or equivocal situations. Here we characterize the role of narration in situations of comprehension and collective problem solving. Then we present an approach of modeling of narrative knowledge and the associated tool HyperStoriawhich makes it possible to assist a group in the acquisition and the modeling of narratives charts start...

We tested whether narrating growth from transgressions was associated with increased well-being, self-compassion, and forgiveness. Study 1 was cross-sectional (N = 118). Studies 2 and 3 were short-term longitudinal (N’s = 77 and 88). Study 1 revealed positive associations between narrating growth and well-being. Study 2 replicated Study 1 and growth-oriented narration was associated with increa...

With rapid advances in computer speech technology, TTS (text -to-speech) synthesis is becoming increasingly attractive as a supplement or even as an alternative to the human narration. This paper explores the potential of TTS synthesis in Web lectures. We propose WhiteboardVCR, a new approach that we have developed for producing and presenting Web lectures. The system supports synchronization o...

Students viewed a computer animation depicting the process of lightning. In Experiment 1, they concurrently viewed on-screen text presented near the animation or far from the animation, or concurrently listened to a narration. In Experiment 2, they concurrently viewed on-screen text or listened to a narration, viewed on-screen text following or preceding the animation, or listened to a narratio...

We present a web tool that allows users to explore news stories concerning the 2012 US Presidential Elections via an interactive interface. The tool is based on concepts of “narrative analysis”, where the key actors of a narration are identified, along with their relations, in what are sometimes called “semantic triplets” (one example of a triplet of this kind is “Romney Criticised Obama”). The...