People are narrative animals. As children, our caretakers immerse us in stories: fairy tales, made-up stories, favorite stories, "Read me a story!" Even when barely verbal, we begin to tell our own proto-stories. "Phoebe! Pizza! Phoebe! Pizza!" was the excited story of a 2-year-old friend Addie when one of us happened to arrive simultaneously with the pizza delivery man. This story means, appro...

After hometown loss due to the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant accident, many radiation decontamination workers started engage in reconstruction of their hometown. However, little is known regarding meaning experience engaging such work. We describe process through a series ethnographic interviews over 5 years with worker. The was classified into following three periods: “recovery lost land by in...

A year ago, we read with disappointment and dismay Damien Contandriopoulos's article entitled, ‘About academic bullshit in nursing’, published Nursing Inquiry (Contandriopoulos, 2019). At the time, wondered whether was a spoof or, at least, baleful provocation. Since then, have deliberated as to how or respond. Our dilemma this: by responding, perversely succumb self-referential arguments affor...

A growing research community is working towards employing drama management components in interactive story-based games. These components gently guide the story towards a narrative arc that improves the player’s experience. However, the success of drama management approaches has not been evaluated using human players in a real game implementation. In this paper, we evaluate our drama management ...