Some Distinctive Features of Narrative Environments

Some Meg Correlates for Distinctive Features

This presentation reviews the use of distinctive features for the mental representation of speech sounds, briefly considering three bases for feature definition: articulatory, auditory and translational. We then review several recent neuroimaging studies examining distinctive features using magnetoencephalography (MEG). Although this area of research is still relatively new, we already have int...

Distinctive and compact features

We consider the problem of extracting features for multi-class recognition problems. The features are required to make fine distinctions between similar classes, combined with tolerance for distortions and missing information. We define and compare two general approaches, both based on maximizing the delivered information for recognition: one divides the problem into multiple binary classificat...

The nature of distinctive features

Narrative in Virtual Environments - Towards Emergent Narrative

In this paper we consider the clash between the pre-scripted character of much narrative and the freedom afforded by a Virtual Environment. We discuss the concept of emergent narrative as a possible way of avoiding this clash. We examine the role of a VE user in a narrative and consider the concept of social presence as a means of reconciling the freedom of the user with the constraints of an e...

Distinctive Features Should Be Learned