In this paper we present the results of a qualitative study regarding the experiences evoked by today's technology. Our goal was to gain better understanding on the content, generation and progression of everyday experiences of users with all kinds of artifacts such as computer software, mobile devices, consumer products and even hardware tools. We conducted semifocused interviews with the goal...

In this paper, a system is described that can understand a plot of a story on reference to both image and linguistic information. As input, a series of line drawings with colors and narrations in English concerning to these drawings are given to the system. It searches the objects suggested to be in the scene by the narrations, finding relations among them, making the world model by using its w...

This study looks at the syllable onset interval (SOI) patterning in Taiwan Mandarin spontaneous speech and its relationship to discourse and syntactic units. Monologs were elicited by asking readers to tell stories depicted in comic strips and were transcribed and segmented into Discourse Segment Units (Grosz & Sidner, 1986), clauses, and phrases. Results showed that the degree of final lengthe...

When I was about twelve, yet another retelling of the Cinderella story released into theatres in a magic-free but nonetheless magical version called Ever After. One my favorite scenes this film involves prince pacing along riverbank, bemoaning challenge finding his true love to Leonardo da Vinci. He asks great Renaissance man, How can you be certain find [the right person]? And if them, are the...

This paper extends the revelation principle to environments in which the mechanism designer cannot fully commit to the outcome induced by the mechanism. We show that he may optimally use a direct mechanism under which truthful revelation is an optimal strategy for the agent. In contrast with the conventional revelation principle, however, the agent may not use this strategy with probability one...

In this paper we describe short mobile video story tests that have been done by using several authors/ users as story composers in the MoViE platform, which enables users to share, communicate and compose short mobile video stories in a networked community. The starting point of our study is the possibility to create an entertaining, dramaturgically intensive and coherent story from various sho...

the present essay considers the relationship between intellect and revelation from allameh tabatabaii’s point of view. according to his view point intellect is prior to revelation and the concepts which derived from intellect and revelation will prove this claim. secondly, we will consider the reasons of precedence of intellect according to the documents and some of his works. with reviewing th...

Cryptographic protocols are often specified by narrations, i.e., finite sequences of message exchanges that show the intended execution protocol. Another use narrations is to describe attacks. We propose in this paper compile, when possible, attack describing into a set tests honest participants can perform exclude these executions. These be implemented monitors protect existing implementations...