Multimodal user interfaces are becoming more and more important in humann machine communication. Essential representatives of such interfaces are virtual agents that aim to act like humans in the way they employ gestures, facial expression, posture and prosody to convey their emotions in face-to-face communication. Furthermore, if we employ a presentation team [1] to convey facts, the performan...

1. Oral sources and oral history The phrase oral history is a common abbreviation for what we might describe, more articulately, as the use of oral sources in history or the social sciences. 1 In its most elementary form, the oral narratives and testimony which constitute oral history are but an additional tool in the historian's panoply of sources, and are therefore subject to the same critica...

Provision for teachers to share professional experiences is a core element of contemporary in-service design, even though few systematic attempts to observe the impact of sharing on professional growth have been reported. An argument for the value of professional sharing was developed from a constructivist model of professional development. Data from an in-service program for district consultan...

identification of the factors causing change in policy process plays an important role in implementing healthy policy process. narrative policy framework introduces new concepts and tools to identify the factors causing policy change. one of the important variables in narrative policy framework is narrative structure. narrative structure has so many elements which the main one is plot. plot lin...

the purpose of this study was to expose a group of iranian students to an e-learning program and find out the effects of this exposure on their learning and motivation strategies. this study made an attempt to evaluate the degree of strategy use in both traditional and e-learning modes of learning. moreover, the effects of the e-learning program of the participants of the study on learning stra...

This research aims at explaining Al-Hafiz Al-Iraqi approach (Died in 806 AH) criticizing the narrators his book Tarḥ al-Tathrῑb, by knowing evaluation on them, and comparing sayings with of other scholars showing extent agreement disagreement whether he is right or not. Results showed that al-Iraqi one moderate (al-Jarh wa’l-Ta’dil. Findings also used general expression did not indicate level c...

Many have argued that narrators can partly construct themselves when they tell autobiographical stories. For this reason, autobiographical narrative has been proposed as a therapeutic tool (Anderson 1997; Cohler 1988; White and Epston 1990), as a means to critique unjust social orders (Personal Narratives Group 1989; Rosenwald and Ochberg 1992; Zuss 1997), and as an educational tool (Cohen 1996...

The stories people construct about themselves and their social worlds are key aspects of their identities [Bruner, J. S. (1990). Acts of meaning. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; McAdams, D. P. (2001). The psychology of life stories. Review of General Psychology, 5, 100–122]. Whereas certain expected life experiences (e.g., leaving home, getting a job) may be relatively easy to narrate,...