The goal of this research was to assess children's beliefs about the reality status of storybook characters and events. In Experiment 1, 156 preschool age children heard realistic, fantastical, or religious stories, and their understanding of the reality status of the characters and events in the stories was assessed. Results revealed that 3-year-olds were more likely to judge characters as rea...

Products that fulfill their functional purpose soon after purchase may become disposable and thus contribute to unsustainable consumption practices. Alternatively, products surrounded by rich stories can become more meaningful to their owners and thus more likely to be kept around beyond their initial use. We propose using sensing and online publishing technologies to capture and share stories ...

When is a story just a story? When is a story much more than a story? When is the story we think we know obscuring a much richer story? These questions and more lay at the root of my lifelong quest to understand the power of story. Growing up in a southern rural community, I learned the art of storytelling from my family and neighbors. I often heard with some admiration, “She sure is a good sto...

(1809-49)-American poet, short-story writer, and critic who is best known for his tales of ratiocination, his fantastical horror stories, and his genre-founding detective stories. Poe, whose cloudy personal life is a virtual legend, considered himself primarily a poet. William Wilson (1839)-A tale about a man's struggle with his conscience — an allegory in which William Wilson meets William Wil...

This paper describes an approach to create coherent life stories for Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs) in order to achieve long-term believability. We integrate a computational autobiographic memory, which allows agents to remember significant past experiences and reconstruct their life stories from these experiences, into an emotion-driven planning architecture. Starting from the literature re...

Robots are moving from factories to people's homes taking on the roles of artificial pets, tutors and companions. If we are to have emotionally engaging robots, we must understand how we can design robots that people feel empathy towards. In this work, I explore one design criteria for such robots: implicit life stories or the ability for a robot to experience the world we share, be transformed...

This nursing research study was designed to reveal the life stories of nurse practitioners in rural Appalachia using storytelling and ballad elements of the culture. The researcher was born in a rural Appalachian community in Virginia and was summoned to return to the place of her birth, feeling an invisible kinship to land, blood ties to family, and a longing to honor rural nursing. Seven nurs...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Illness stories have attracted growing attention in health care research in the context of learning from looking at the world through the patients' eyes. No narrative studies were found about the patients with neuroendocrine tumors (NETs); a rare illness including tumors usually starting in hormone-producing cells. The aim of this article was to develop an extended unde...

stories and fictions are important cultural resources which in many cultures are narrated by women.these storiescan bea reflection of ideals and desires of women in different levels of a society. therefore, reviewing these stories and fictions would bebeneficial to better understand the various aspects of women’s life in a society.this research aims to study women’s positionin bakhtiary’s cultu...