We are designing computer programs for Interactive Drama, where the audience can act to modify the story while the computer responds to these acts and maintains the narrative nature of the experience. Such computer based Interactive Drama requires narrative models able to both simulate the narrative on a deep level, and allow the user to interact with it. We discuss in this paper the extent to ...

To operate with (or in, or from) the discipline of cybernetics is to engage with the concepts and guides-to-action elucidated by Heinz von Foerster. It is impossible for us to do otherwise, because his work ““stands under”” the praxis of circular-causal reasoning, second-order thinking-acting, and ethical viewpoints. Elucidate is a fitting word because it comes from a root meaning to shine a li...

undoubtedly alamut by bartol can be considered as oneof the masterpieces of slovenia and europe which has been exposed to differentreadings for decades. one of its naive readings is regarding the novel as aliterally narration of the events of iran in the 11th century, thetime that esmailis with hasan sabbah as the leader ruled over alamut castel.this article tries to analyze that although barto...

We present a transdisciplinary approach to the problem of careless privacy be-haviour manifested when people publish images online. Combining disci-plines Design and Computer Vision, we developed an interface narrative by modelling in socio-technical context. Building on Gordon Pask’s The-ory Conversation, designed experiential dialogue between algorithms, used this as platform observe sys-tem ...

ṣadr al-muti’allihīn shīrāzī is the founder of a school known as transcendental philosophy. employing the heritage of his predecessors, he has opened a new way before seekers of the truth. one of the features of his philosophical school is the frequent use of the verses of the qur’ān and traditions of the infallibles (a.s.) in his philosophical works. on the basis of the philosophical principle...

The effective practice of medicine requires narrative competence, that is, the ability to acknowledge, absorb, interpret, and act on the stories and plights of others. Medicine practiced with narrative competence, called narrative medicine, is proposed as a model for humane and effective medical practice. Adopting methods such as close reading of literature and reflective writing allows narrati...

This narrative is taken from a memoir about my son, Jesse, who died at age 19 in 1995 after a liver transplant. It covers two periods-from May 5, his admission date at the hospital to wait for a transplant, until May 9, when a perforation, caused by cutting through intestinal adhesions during transplant surgery, was discovered, and from May 20 to May 22, when his condition became extremely crit...

Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing is a story about the past as well present. It peopled not only by characters living in present South but also ghosts representing racial injustice. These are manifestation of brutality, sign haunting But presents temporal aporia: separate from present, hence presence link between two temporalities they merged through remains past: Parchman prison or discrimina...

Communication includes all the ways that human beings can influence others. This involves not only speaking or writing, but also all human behavior in various ways, so there are two types of communicational signs that human beings use: verbal and non-verbal signs. In communication science, special attention has been paid to how non-verbal signs influence message transmission. The research has s...