The present study sought to explore the impact of story maps and audio podcasts as scaffolds on oral proficiency of Iranian EFL learners. The quasi-experimental study was launched with 36 EFL undergraduates in three groups by adopting a counterbalanced 3  3 Latin squared design. All participants were indiscriminately, but in a specified order, exposed to the three treatment conditions of story ...

User stories in software engineering serve the purpose of discovering requirements and are used as units of system development. When applying stories in a project, two elements seem to be crucial: the ability to write coherent sequences of events and the ability to transform these sequences into code quickly and resourcefully. In this paper, these qualities are reflected in a notation that can ...

In this paper, we describe a computational system that generates story analogues based on previous stories. Unlike many previous works on story generation that attempt to produce a story artifact from a set of highlevel specifications, we describe an approach that generates relatively novel stories by transforming existing stories to new contexts. We describe an algorithm for using analogical r...

In 1854, Dr. John Snow identified the Broad Street pump as the source of an intense cholera outbreak by plotting the location of cholera deaths on a dot-map. He had the pump handle removed and the outbreak ended...or so one version of the story goes. In medical geography, the story of Snow and the Broad Street cholera outbreak is a common example of the discipline in action. While authors in ot...

We present a system for procedurally generating a map for a story-driven game, where locations in the map are assigned algorithmically or by designer preference. In addition, we also generate terrain, together with climate to match the terrain, with smooth, coherent transitions between terrain exhibiting different weather. We summarize weather approximations using a tuple to represent condition...

People who read history books – be it fact or fiction try to identify and relate their own personal time-frame the story. This allows them personally locate themselves in a narrative. A story has power help us find connections past meaning our present lives. But is not powerful enough simply encourage collectively act for distant future, such action needs exceptional imagination, critical think...