The non-linear nature of interactive narratives makes it difficult for authors of these systems to anticipate how players will interact with them. This paper presents the technique of story sampling for assisting in the authoring and evaluation of interactive narratives. An example of a potential application of story sampling is presented using data from the interactive narrative Prom Week, and...

Megaprojects along with creating value to the economy, create environmental, social and political disruptions in its local environment. Narratives guide action hence both promoters protesters of a project mobilize narratives advance their interest. In this process, counter-narratives are (re)created interaction often establishes dominant narrative. Using case High Speed Two (HS2) megaproject En...

We analyze the narratives that accompany the numerical forecasts in the Bank of England’s Inflation Reports. We focus on whether the narratives contain useful information about the future course of key macro variables over and above the point predictions, in terms of whether the narratives can be used to enhance the accuracy of the numerical forecasts. We also consider whether the narratives ar...

Interactive narratives are an important element in video games and serious games alike, however, their authoring tools have their roots in programming language and programming environments. While these end-user environments for interactive narratives provide a means for users to create custom content, they are not necessarily intuitive or easy to use for non-programmers. This paper provides the...

Why do people vary in their views of human nature and their visions of the good society? Why do many people categorize themselves as “liberal,” “conservative,” “libertarian,” “socialist,” and so on? Some researchers try to answer these questions by starting with people’s self-identifications and then moving “down,” examining traits (such as openness to experience) that underlie and predict endo...

Medical education programmes worldwide are becoming competency-based, aiming to provide training in all aspects relevant to the future practice of physicians. These involve competencies that exceed the sole domain of medical expertise and skills, beholding i.e. communication, collaboration, ethics, and management. Although the necessity of these so called ‘generic’ competencies has become clear...

The Internet has often been envisioned as a technological utopia, framed by the rhetoric of hope. However, after studying the popular discourse, three meta-narratives are identified: utopian narratives containing the pro-innovation position; dystopian narratives containing the anti-diffusion position; technology-as-risk narratives containing the control position. While narratives of anti-diffus...

Corporate narratives concerning technological change are often constructed around a linear series of events that show the organization in a positive light to internal and external observers. These narratives often sanitize the change process, and present data from which commentators can formulate neat linear prescriptions on how to implement new technology. In contrast, this paper draws on proc...

This study examined the transportation effects of alcohol consequence narratives varying in source (written by the narrative protagonist vs. protagonist's partner) and type of heath consequence (physical or emotional). Additionally, this study examined the role of narrative transportation and cognitive and discrete affective responses in the persuasion process. In this study, 501 students of a ...

Emotion characterises learners' feedback experiences. While the failure-to-fail literature suggests that emotion may be important, little is known about the role of emotion for educators. Secondary analyses were therefore conducted on data exploring 110 trainers' and trainees' feedback experiences. Group and individual narrative interviews were conducted across three UK sites. We analysed 333 n...