Through user testing of Storytelling Alice, we found that users’ ability to find and develop story ideas was important in maintaining their engagement with programming in the system. In this paper, we describe the design process behind creating a gallery of characters and scenery that helps Storytelling Alice users to find and develop story ideas as well as lessons learned about successful and ...

A mixed-design experiment was conducted to explore differences between searching and surfing on cognitive and emotional responses to online news. Ninety-two participants read three unpleasant news stories from a website. Half of the participants acquired their stories by searching, meaning they had a previous information need in mind. The other half of the participants acquired their stories by...

Picture Books 2 generates fable-like stories for children age 6 to 8 years old based on an input picture comprising of three scenes. Currently the system is able to generate stories that show transitions and movement of characters and objects across the adjacent scenes of the input picture. However some of the stories produced are illogical. This study explores an approach to enhancing the onto...

Are quoted sources in online news as psychologically meaningful us those in printed and broadcast news ? A within-suhjects experiment was designed to answer this question. On a web site,forty-eight subjects read three online news stories with cjuotes and three stories without source attribution. They rated stories with quotes significantly higher in credibility and quality than identical storie...

In a multilevel database, cover stories are usually managed using the ambiguous technique of polyinstantiation. In this paper, we define a new technique to manage cover stories and propose a formal representation of a multilevel database containing cover stories. Our model aims to be a generic model, that is, it can be interpreted for any kind of database (e.g. relational, objectoriented etc). ...

For millennia, adults have told children stories not only to entertain but also to impart important moral lessons to promote prosocial behaviors. Many such stories contain anthropomorphized animals because it is believed that children learn from anthropomorphic stories as effectively, if not better than, from stories with human characters, and thus are more inclined to act according to the mora...

[Context and motivation] User stories are an increasingly popular textual notation to capture requirements in agile software development. [Question/Problem] To date there is no scientific evidence on the effectiveness of user stories. The goal of this paper is to explore how practicioners perceive this artifact in the context of requirements engineering. [Principal ideas/results] We explore per...