Objectives: Parenting is a difficult task. Factors like social support, sense of coherence, self-esteem, hardiness, optimism, internal locus of control, and religious coping play a vital role in this area. This study aimed to develop a religious coping measure for parents of differently-abled children. It also aimed to explore the factor structure and reliability of a religious coping scale. M...

As part of our broader initiative on promoting the education in the field of IVA control mechanisms at high schools and universities, we have created a micro-game Cinema Date, which introduces students challenges posed by controlling 3D virtual characters and expressing their emotional state. The game features two virtual teenagers dating on their way to the cinema. The player can influence the...

Technologies that were initially developed to be applied within the domain of video games are currently being used in experiments to explore their meaning and possibilities for cinema and cinema audiences. In this position paper we examine how narrativity, interactivity and engagement are mutually reshaped within this new domain of media entertainment, addressing both the production and the use...

The new commercial-grade Electroencephalography (EEG)-based BrainComputer Interfaces (BCIs) have led to a phenomenal development of applications across health, entertainment and the arts, while an increasing interest in multi-brain interaction has emerged. In the arts, there is already a number of works that involve the interaction of more than one participants with the use of EEG-based BCIs. H...

This paper takes a look at narrative forms as of yet unexplored in the field of digital interactive storytelling, and proposes methods for how they can be used in engaging ways for the user. Although the various Digital Interactive Storytelling (DIS) prototypes available produce several different story genres, they stem from the same classic narrative form. With this paper, we aim to introduce ...

in this article we study the attitudes of iranian cinema audience toward popular films. affected by classic elite cultural theories, popular culture and consumers of popular culture have been humiliated for many years. according to this theories, audience of popular magazines, popular music, popular films and other popular culture products, have been considered as passive victims. cultural stud...

See Teresa dc Lauretis, 'Aesthetic and Feminist Theory: Rethinking Women's Cinema', New German Critique 34, Winter 1985, pp 154-175. Madame X, a harsh, pitiless beauty, the cruel, uncrowned ruler of the China Seas, launched an appeal to all women willing to exchange an everyday existence of almost unbearable boredom, though safe and easy, for a world of uncertainty and danger, but also full of ...

this paper aims to study the imagination of tehran through 1340s and 1350s iranian cinema and the main question is that what kind of representation on city was fueled by cinema. this study was conducted based on analysis of four impressive films in these two decades. two of them are popular movies (ganje gharoon and khater khah) and the two other (khesht-o ayeni and ragbar) are related to avant...

This paper examines the life stories of 14 men and women who spent time in religious communities and who subsequently took up work in the caring professions. Their accounts reflect the alignment between the ethics of care and those of religious life, the centrality of contemplation and self-examination to both Christianity and psychotherapy. There are further correspondences between their narra...