Workshop in German Drama

GWEM 2011 - German Workshop on Experience Management

Psycho-Drama in VR

The goal of our group is to produce immersive virtual reality (VR) experiences that engage the user as a central protagonist in compelling interactive dramas. Our dramas are designed for CAVEs or CAVE-like systems – projection-based, 3-D stereo VR displays with one large screen or multiple screens forming a virtual theater. A tracking system and ”wand,” with joystick and programmable buttons, c...

5 th German Conference on Cheminformatics : 23 . CIC - Workshop

A1 5th German Conference on Chemoinformatics: 23. CIC-Workshop. November 8-10, 2009, Goslar, Germany Frank Oellien, Uli Fechner, Thomas Engel GDCh-CIC Division Chair, Intervet Innovation GmbH, Zur Propstei, 55270 Schwabenheim, Germany; GDCh-CIC division board member, BeilsteinInstitut zur Förderung der Chemischen Wissenschaften, Trakehner Str. 7-9, 60487 Frankfurt, Germany; GDCh-CIC Division Co...

Drama in the Teenage Brain

WHAT IS ADOLESCENCE? Adolescence, which comes from the Latin word adolescere, meaning " to grow up, " is used to describe the period of life between childhood and adulthood. It is commonly defined as starting around puberty and ending when an individual has developed an independent, stable role in society. Adolescence is not a new phenomenon. Ancient humans experienced adolescence and Aristotle...

Annotating Characters' Emotions in Drama

In this paper, we describe a methodology for annotating characters’ emotions in narrative media. Given the semantic annotation of the story, the emotional state of its characters is inferred through SWRL rules that encode the emotion appraisal process. In order to exemplify the model and test the emotional states generated by the SWRL module, we resort to a well-known dramatic situation and we ...