Developing Science Fiction among Kindergarten Children

I-Theatre: developing narrative skills in kindergarten children

In this paper we introduce i-Theater, an interactive integrated system for developing narrative skills through story-creation and storytelling, dedicated to young children.

Developing Emotion-Oriented Morality through Fiction

Background: As a peculiar epistemological procedure to understand and represent world facts, literature has ‎constantly imparted major contributions to human knowledge. Literature’s epistemological ‎effects bear on both cognitive and affective measures; however, its emotional functioning is ‎more remarkable. Fiction resorts to mimesis on readers’ mind in developing such moral emotions as empath...

Fiction informed by science.

Exchanging Graphical Emails Among Elderly People and Kindergarten Children

Email is a convenient tool, however, it is still difficult for elderly people and kindergarten children. If they can learn to use it, their ability to communicate may be remarkably increased. Therefore we developed two kinds of email software ‘Gin-Mail’ for elderly people and ‘Ocha-Mail’ for kindergarten children. They adopt a pen-based interface with a tablet PC. Users write email using Ink fu...

Health care access disparities among children entering kindergarten in Nevada.

The objective of this study was to advance our understanding and appreciation of the health status of young children in the state of Nevada in addition to their discrepancies in accessing health care. This study used the 2008-2009 Nevada Kindergarten Health Survey data of 11,073 children to assess both independent and combined effects of annual household income, race/ethnicity, primary language...