Although using different strategies, Portuguese artists Mónica de Miranda and Filipa César make us think about reflect on the ruins of ‘empire’ but also ruins—and remains—of European colonialism its patriarchal backbone. Their work opens possibility discussing aesthetics from feminist decolonial perspectives, departing category ‘ruins’ considering many ways through which these their multiple in...

Role-plays provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate how to use English in real life situations and make them focus more on communication than on grammar. Oral presentations like conversations are a great way for students to practice their English skills. Therefore, this paper makes an attempt to investigate whether teaching conversation through role play affects the students’ speaki...

starting from the 6th century a.h., and especially starting from the mongol era onward, along with the flourishing of historiography, historical shāhnāmeh-composition also became a point of interest, and shāhnāmehs appeared with the aim of recording historical events. in the composition of these shāhnāmehs, ferdowsi’s shāhnāmeh was like a model for the shāhnāmeh-writers, and due to this the spi...

Chatter bots are computer programs that can simulate a conversation through text chat. Current chatter bots perform well in artificial conversations consisting of pairs of utterance exchanges like a questionanswer session where the context switches with every pair. But they perform poorly in longer conversations where the context is maintained across several utterance exchanges. Existing approa...

Intercultural communication is concerned with communication across cultures. Since cultures as well as languages differ from one another in significant ways, speakers conceptualize the world around them in different ways. These cultural conceptualizations form part of the collective cognition of a speech community or cultural group. This paper is an attempt to delineate some cultural schemas in...

Conversations between two people are ubiquitous in many inhabited contexts. The kinds of conversations that occur depend on several factors, including the time, the location of the participating agents, the spatial relationship between the agents, and the type of conversation in which they are engaged. The statistical distribution of dyadic conversations among a population of agents will theref...

“Get lost!” or “I think you should leave now” or “Ok, perhaps I’ll see you around some other time”, humans seem to be expressing things differently in different situations based on various factors: Social relationship between the two people, urgency of an action, their personality, etc. Social interaction of synthetic agents appears believable when it has at least some characteristics of human-...

This panel will present case studies of four different game laboratories, exploring the uses of the lab as a research venue and as part of a game or digital media curriculum. The examples will focus on game labs in Humanities departments, where the use of laboratories as a resource is less common. OVERVIEW A game lab is an invaluable resource for games research, which can take many forms depend...