Pastiche scenarios draw on fiction as a resource to explore the interior ““feltlife”” aspects of user experience and the complex social and cultural issues raised by technological innovations. This paper sets out an approach for their use, outlining techniques for the location of source material and presenting three case studies of pastiche scenario use. The first case study is an evaluation of...

Pastiche scenarios draw on fiction as a resource to explore the interior ““feltlife”” aspects of user experience and the complex social and cultural issues raised by technological innovations. This paper sets out an approach for their use, outlining techniques for the location of source material and presenting three case studies of pastiche scenario use. The first case study is an evaluation of...

We applied hierarchical clustering using Rank distance, previously used in computational stylometry, on literary texts written by Mateiu Caragiale and a number of different authors who attempted to impersonate Caragiale after his death, or simply to mimic his style. Their pastiches were consistently clustered opposite to the original work, thereby confirming the performance of the method and pr...

The theory of blended spaces of Fauconnier and Turner (1994,1998), also known as the many-space model of conceptual integration, is a bold new theory in cognitive science that unifies metaphor, analogy, metonymy and conceptual combination within a framework of interconnected mental spaces. Through an analysis of cinematic pastiche, a form of creative reuse and structural blending in the develop...