Mental time travel is the ability to remember past events and imagine future events. Here, 124 Middle Easterners and 128 Scandinavians generated important past and future events. These different societies present a unique opportunity to examine effects of culture. Findings indicate stronger influence of normative schemas and greater use of mental time travel to teach, inform and direct behaviou...

This article presents an outline of a script theory of guidance for computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL). With its four types of components of internal and external scripts (play, scene, role, and scriptlet) and seven principles, this theory addresses the question how CSCL practices are shaped by dynamically re-configured internal collaboration scripts of the participating learners....

The COVID-19 crisis emerged during a divisive time in American politics. We argue that to unravel the crisis—and craft effective responses—we need more sophisticated understanding of political culture public health crises. use data from interviews and online media examine symbolic representation phenomena (masks; institutions) within first months US epidemic. show how scripts about pandemic res...

This article presents an outline of a script theory of guidance for computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL). With its 4 types of components of internal and external scripts (play, scene, role, and scriptlet) and 7 principles, this theory addresses the question of how CSCL practices are shaped by dynamically reconfigured internal collaboration scripts of the participating learners. Furt...

This article presents an outline of a script theory of guidance for computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL). With its four types of components of internal and external scripts (play, scene, role, and scriptlet) and seven principles, this theory addresses the question how CSCL practices are shaped by dynamically re-configured internal collaboration scripts of the participating learners....

With the dramatic increase of the live webcast scripts about sports, it is an urgent demand to write and publish a sports news article immediately after a sports game. However, so far, the sports news articles are usually written by human experts or journalists, and the manual writing of sports news is timeconsuming and inefficient. This paper describes our system on the sports news generation ...

Emerging Markets are very different from other developed markets in the diversity of the user needs, motivations and the business environment dynamics. The average citizen in the emerging markets, especially from the lower socio-economic segment, is not computer-savvy, and often only semi-literate. He or she is fluent in the local, and knows little or no English. Also, because of the poor penet...

Narrative intelligence is the use of narrative to make sense of the world and to communicate with other people. The generation of stories involving social and cultural situations (eating at a restaurant, going on a date, etc.) requires an extensive amount of experiential knowledge. While this knowledge can be encoded in the form of scripts, schemas, or frames, the manual authoring of these know...