AIM This article is a report of a qualitative study of women's experiences after having received a breast cancer diagnosis and awaiting primary surgery. BACKGROUND Breast cancer is experienced as an important stressor and a major challenge. How women appraise the diagnosis affects their postsurgery adaptation. Although studies have documented the presurgery period as stressful, in-depth under...

1 Departamento de Ingenieŕıa Informática Universidad de Cádiz, Spain [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], WWW home page: http://departamentos.uca.es/C137 2 Departamento de Filoloǵıa Francesa e Inglesa Universidad de Cádiz, Spain [email protected], WWW home page: http://departamentos.uca.es/C115 3 Departamento de Ingenieŕıa del Software e Inteligencia Artifi...

The research deals with an important rhetorical phenomenon found in Arabic literature, as the literary text gives it aesthetic privacy, and is of diagnosis, appeared poetry (Abi Al-Baqa Al-Rundi). As al-Baqa al-Randi) a distinctive stylized artistic image, characterized by vitality activity beautiful suggestive which contributes to arousing emotion listener within poetic text, trying question a...

Interactive stories face a famous “authorial bottleneck.” Two existing approaches to this problem are story management systems, such as drama managers, and interactive narrative generators. Existing work leverages well-understood qualities of linear narrative such as suspense to generate content, but interactivity brings new capacities, like the ability to make a player experience regret. These...

In this paper, we describe the results of the evaluation of a Virtual Character, used as a human-like, automated narrator with focus on the signaling of suspenseful situations within stories to the Virtual Narrator’s audience. Signaling is done via facial expression and gestures, driven by an underlying story examination mechanism. This mechanism uses an automatic generated story to get points ...