Narrative in young children's digital art-making

Digital Art and Crowd Creation in Iran (Case Study: Tehran Annual Digital Art Exhibition)

This paper aims to show the status of digital art in Iran and explain how the meaning of an artist has transformed in the digital age. The primary assumption of this paper is that the experience of digital art has again revived the collective experience in creating arts. Although, interactivity is considered to be the most important quality of digital art, their collective, collaborative and pr...

Framing Young Childrens Oral Health: A Participatory Action Research Project

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Despite the widespread acknowledgement of the importance of childhood oral health, little progress has been made in preventing early childhood caries. Limited information exists regarding specific daily-life and community-related factors that impede optimal oral hygiene, diet, care, and ultimately oral health for children. We sought to understand what parents of young ...

SANE journal: Sequential Art Narrative in Education

Narrative Threads: A Tool to Support Young People in Interactive Digital Storytelling

Computer game authoring offers young people the opportunity to create their own interactive digital stories. This activity has strong educational potential, but authoring tools have provided little to no interface representational support for the storytelling aspect of the task until now. Narrative Threads, a suite of tools which provides this support, is presented here, including a description...

Doing science making art

It is a challenge to balance doing both science and art, but I attempt both because each provides unique insight into perception and cognition, often to mutual benefit. The techniques I use in visual neuroscience (psychophysics, fMRI, microelectrode recording) are different from those I use in visual art (etching, watercolor and oil paint, glass and silk), but the process is always empirical, t...