This paper presents visualizations to facilitate users’ ability to understand personal narratives in the historical and sociolinguistic context that they occurred. The visualizations focus on several elements of narrative – time, space, and emotion – to explore oral testimonies of Korean “comfort women,” women who were forced into sexual slavery by Japanese military during World War II. The vis...

This paper reports on a research project aimed at optimising the print and electronic production process of therapeutic guidelines and making the data elements and underlying logic machine-readable. We first describe a re-engineered guideline production system, SISMO (Single Input Source, Multiple Output), which has been devised and is currently being introduced into a guidelines production pro...

summary of the subject of the narrative Orientation – time, place, situation, participants Complicating action – what actually happened Evaluation – the meaning and significance of the action Resolution – what finally happened Coda – returns the perspective to the present Labov and Walenzky (1967 in Elliott, 2007). In many cases, researchers have used the whole of this framework to categorise s...

This paper is concenled with heuristics for segmenting narratives into units that form the basic elements of discourse representations and that constrain the application of focusing algorithms. The following classes of di~ontinuities are identified: figure-ground, space, time, perspective, and topic. It is suggested that rhetorical relations between narrative units are mac~o labels that stand f...

The paper presents the empirical results obtained from a study conducted on a game-based online course that took place in 2014 with 47 participants. The study evidenced the benefits of the learning games mechanics on learners’ willingness to continue the course. Assuming the interest for the subject of the course as a fundamental condition for student persistence within the course, it is shown ...

Music facilitated by technology has led to an unprecedented development in performancepractice: the ability to generate sound without the physical gesture required when performing on an acoustic instrument. Response to this development has resulted in divergent performance aesthetic preferences, ranging from the emphasis of acousmatically– based listening practices to the development of electro...

Post-modernism and recent critical theory has sought to deconstruct the role of particular ‘Great Traditions’ and ‘Grand Narratives’ as privileged accounts of world affairs, contemporary and historical. In spite of this, such narratives, even if poorly understood, remain at the heart of much public debate and continue to shape national and global policies. These traditions, linked to elements o...

This paper outlines an exercise designed to preview primary strategic elements through a team-based experiential exercise. Designed for delivery in a traditional classroom setting during a two-hour session, the exercise uses videogame software and a narrative context to transfer strategic management concepts into a real-world situation. This paper discusses the outcomes from implementations in ...

Advance directives for psychiatric care are the subject of debate in a number of Western societies. By using psychiatric advance directives (or so-called "Ulysses contracts"), it would be possible for mentally ill persons who are competent and with their disease in remission, and who want timely intervention in case of future mental crisis, to give prior authorisation to treatment at a later ti...

Bioethics case reports generally treat aspects of moral fathomability, characterised and addressed in different ways. This paper reads the case as a textual model of scenarios and draws attention to its structure, narrative shape, linguistic register, and the effects of tone and temporality on reader expectation and responsiveness. Such textual elements of case composition reflect authorial pur...