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 article introduces OPARIS, an OPen ARchitecture for Interactive Storytelling, which aims at facilitating and fostering the integration of various and heterogeneous Interactive Storytelling components. It is based on a modular decomposition of functionalities and a specification of the various messages that different modules exchange with each other.

In this paper we introduce the notion of character’s values to mediate between agents and story direction in storytelling systems. By relating characters’ goals with their values, the activation of goals depends on the values that are put at stake by the story incidents. Based on this framework, we propose a reference architecture for value–based interactive storytelling.

This article argues that the role of storytelling in planning needs to be rethought learning from decolonial turn social sciences. I ask how decolonise theory and practice. The aim is explore key notions Latin American thinking, such as pluriverse, epistemological disobedience, border thinking sentipensar, can help us reframe planning. reframing contribute finding different avenues build ontolo...

Introduction Stories are the core of many types of entertainment. Although developers and designers strive to develop new forms of entertainment that deliver richer audiovisual experiences to the audience, one of the key elements – a good story – remains the same. Storytelling is intertwined in people’s lives and has deeply influenced human societies for generations. It ranges from the simplest...

We reflect on the methods, activities and perspectives we used to situate digital storytelling in two rural African communities in South Africa and Kenya. We demonstrate how in-depth ethnography in a village in the Eastern Cape of South Africa and a design workshop involving participants from that village allowed us to design a prototype mobile digital storytelling system suited to the needs of...

Storytelling algorithms aim to ‘connect the dots’ between disparate documents by linking starting and ending documents through a series of intermediate documents. Existing storytelling algorithms are based on notions of coherence and connectivity, and thus the primary way by which users can steer the story construction is via design of suitable similarity functions. We present an alternative ap...

Companies today are expected to engage in corporate social responsibility (CSR) and they spend a lot of time, money, and other resources on these tasks. However, in relation to their investment, the gain for most companies is marginal, because their efforts are only perceived by a small number of people. In this paper, our goal is to improve on this situation by involving a greater number of pe...

Storytelling humankind’s universal choice for content transmission is becoming of great importance in the field of computer graphics, as the human ability to keep track of information in the information society of the 21 century is dependent on the quality of the information providing systems. Basically, the first steps towards storytelling systems have been taken; everyone today has the possib...