We have created an interactive storytelling system for public spaces that is collaborative, easy and entertaining to use, and allows for a natural interaction. The system consists of a table, a ceiling mounted projector that projects onto the table, and a 3D camera for tracking hands and for object recognition. The main feature of the system is the projection on top of the palm of the hand of t...

This thesis presents the Interactive Storyteller, a ‘story domain’-independent multi-user interface for AI-based interactive storytelling. Up until now, users of our storytelling framework, which uses the emergent narrative approach, had no influence on how the storyline developed. In the current research we aim to offer users a social setting for AI-based interactive storytelling. Existing AIb...

The use of storytelling as a knowledge elicitation tool has attracted much attention in recent years, yet there is limited literature on how to illicit or stimulate the story. The challenge is to find appropriate research instruments that stimulate storytelling and morph vocalised individual narratives into multifaceted stories that provide an insight into the emotions, politics and ‘life’ of o...

Article history: Initial receipt 17 April 2017 Final revision received 27 October 2017 Storytelling can affect wellbeing and fitness by transmitting information and reinforcing cultural codes of conduct. Despite their potential importance, the development and timing of storytelling skills, and the transmission of story knowledge have received minimal attention in studies of subsistence societie...

This paper addresses the question as to what sort of role storytelling plays in the formal mentoring process. Firstly, the individual’s personal competence which is divided into knowledge and socially based competencies, and how this competence alters in the course of the individual’s working life, is illustrated. Secondly, due to the fact that the mentor’s competence is transferred from his or...

This report focuses on the research possibilities of Interactive Storytelling, concretely in the potential of developing different cinematic tools w ithin a storytelling system, with the intention to provide strong, advanced and coherent narrative capabilities in a virtual environment where stories are generated with virtual actors. The context of the proposal is a virtual scenario, developed w...

The “Coming Home” project at the University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies was started in 2009 to research how virtual worlds could facilitate health care activities for returning US military personnel, who frequently suffer from psychological and physical challenges. These challenges include increased stress and loss of selfesteem related to the war events they ha...

background and aim: accidents can happen to children more than other age groups. given their specific behavioral and physiological traits, children require care on the part of adults. this study aimed to evaluate the effects of two educational methods based on orem’s self-care model, i.e. storytelling and lecturing, on knowledge, attitude and self-efficacy of mothers of children 1 to 59 months ...

the storytelling with picture (pardeh-khani), as one of the traditional forms of theatre in iran has many capabilities in artistic and dramatic expression. yet, about this kind of traditional theatre, many researches has been accomplished about its structure and performing methods. the main question of this article is that, is it possible to use this theatrical form in one of the most important...