User stories are a widespread instrument for representing requirements. They describe small user-oriented parts of the system and guide the daily work of developers. Often however, user stories are too coarse, so that misunderstandings or dependencies remain unforeseeable. Granularity of user stories needs to be investigated more, but at the same time is a hard-to-grasp concept. This paper inve...

In this paper, we describe an interactive environment designed and created within a museum context. “Re-Tracing the Past: Exploring objects, stories and mysteries” allowed visitors to explore and investigate artefacts housed within the museums permanent collection. One interactive installation within ‘ReTracing the Past’, the ‘Radio’, allows for the exploration of previously recorded visitor st...

One way people learn new words is through reading books and stories. Little kids love hearing their favorite stories over and over and are also very good at learning new words. We wondered if reading the same stories could be helping preschool kids learn new words. Our research tested if it was better to read the same stories over and over or to read a few different stories. Here, we tell you a...

the authors of this article aim to compare character types in persian oral folktales and hans christian andersen’s fairytales. for a better clarification of this topic, the authors address issues such as morality, character’s will, and the portrayal of women in these stories. this paper comes to the following conclusions: first, both the content and the characters in hans christian andersen’s t...

as an iranian literary work, it might seem that the shahnamah is a national epic which has been composed to promote persian language and protect historical and cultural identity of iranians against the dominance of alien cultures. however, this paper attemp to argue that the investigation of the stories, characters, and the symbols presented in the shahnamah indicate that ferdowsi's though...

Canvass, or Customized Access to News Video Archive Storage System, is a proofof concept prototype video composition system that allows users to retrieve automaticallycomposed video stories based on input selection criteria. Composition is achieved at the shot level. In essence, users are provided with a set of news stories that are composed, on-the-fly, from available news content, considering...

We retrieve news stories and earnings announcements of the S&P 100 constituents from two professional news providers, along with ten macroeconomic indicators. We also gather data from Google Trends about these firms’ assets as an index of retail investors’ attention. Thus, we create an extensive and innovative database that contains precise information with which to analyze the link between new...

This study investigated children ‘s understanding (3-, 6, 9-, and 12-year-olds) of the different levels of meaning of the cognitive verb know as defined by the Hall, Scholnick, and Hughes (1987) abstractness andconceptual dificulty hierarchy. Weness andconceptual dificulty hierarchy. We found that cognitive verb knowledge increased with development and that certain low levels of meaning were ma...

If we already know how to tie our shoelaces, it should not be necessary to learn again. When somebody shows you how to tie them, if you already know how, you may not regard the person as a source of knowledge. Do preschoolers understand the role of learner’s knowledge states in learning the same way? The current study, with seventy-two 3to 5-year-olds, tested preschoolers’ understanding of lear...

Theory of mind (ToM), the ability to reason about other people's thoughts and beliefs, has been traditionally studied in behavioral and neuroimaging experiments by comparing performance in "false belief" and "false photograph" (control) stories. However, some evidence suggests that these stories are not matched in difficulty, complicating the interpretation of results. Here, we more fully evalu...