A narrative is an ordered sequence of connected events, usually involving multiple participants. Most existing visualization techniques represent narratives as a node-link graph where a sequence of links shows the evolution of causal and temporal relationships between characters in the narrative. These techniques make a number of simplifying assumptions about the narrative structure, however. T...

Interactive narratives suffer from the narrative paradox: the tension that exists between providing a coherent narrative experience and allowing a player free reign over what she can manipulate in the environment. Knowing what actions a player in such an environment intends to carry out would help in managing the narrative paradox, since it would allow us to anticipate potential threats to the ...

In history curriculum design in England, currently at least two loci of authority – the teachers’ ‘extended writing movement’ and national awarding body Pearson Edexcel present somewhat contrasting portrayals narrative mode for purposes historical causal explanation. Nonetheless, both suggest they are reappropriating academic knowledge secondary schooling a fashion similar to what Basil Bernste...

Title of Document: BRITISH MODERNIST NARRATIVE MIDDLES Michael Eli Rosenberg, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013 Directed By: Professor Brian Richardson, Department of English Middles play a key role in shaping narrative form. However, while Edward Said has shown how beginnings shape the novel and a wide range of intellectual endeavors in Beginnings: Intention and Method, and Frank Kermode has explored...

Abstract Asymmetry in energy supply/demand policy is persistent, as governments around the world develop detailed plans to decarbonize supply, but comprehensive reduce demand are missing. Such asymmetry a systemic problem, and manifest many social systems, e.g. healthcare between curing illnesses investing preventive healthcare. There no existing explanation of asymmetry, however, corr...

This paper argues for a robust notion of collective identity which is not reduced to a psychological conception of identity. In a first part the debate on the concept of identity raised by several authors is taken up critically with the intention to defend a strong sociological conception of identity which by definition is a collective identity. The basic assumption is that collective identitie...

The goal of this paper is to provide a story-based explanation for movie recommendation systems, achieved by a multiaspect explanation and narrative analysis methods. We explain how and why particular movies are similar based on following two aspects: (i) composition of movie characters and (ii) interactions among the characters. These aspects correspond to story-based features of the movies th...

RC1: Anonymous Referee #1 This small note describes a good experimental dataset collected in two contracted landuse areas. The manuscript has to be amended with hypothetical explanation of processes causing the observed multifractal properties. Otherwise it is purely descriptive narrative that does add to science. The recommendations of soil reclamation have to be substantiated with suggestions...

Prior work examining technology usage and maintenance practices in homes describes division of labor in terms of technical expertise. In this paper, we offer a counter-narrative to this explanation for engagement with Ubiquitous Computing. Using feminist theory as an analytic lens, we examine how gender identity work is a determining factor of whether and how people engage with digital technolo...