Models of narrative have been proposed from many perspectives and most of these nowadays promote further the notion that narrative is a transmedial phenomenon: i.e., stories can be told making use of distinct and multiple forms of expressions. This raises a range of theoretical and practical questions, as well as rendering the task of providing computational models of narrative both more intere...

Interactive Narrative is an approach to interactive entertainment that enables the player to make decisions that directly affect the direction and/or outcome of the narrative experience being delivered by the computer system. Interactive narrative requires two seemingly conflicting requirements: coherent narrative and user agency. We present an interactive narrative system that uses a combinati...

fever accompanied by rash is a common finding in pediatric patients. although, in most cases, the disease is trivial, in some cases it may be the first and/or the sole manifestation of a serious and life threatening condition in patients. the spectrum of differential diagnosis is broad and many different infectious and some noninfectious agents cause this syndrome. to establish a timely diagnos...

apart from the linguistic ability in translation which has constantly been the focus of scholars in the past decades, many recent arguments and research on translation quality point to the indispensable effect of mental and cognitive aspects of translator on his translation performance. in this paper we sought to implement this psychological approach and to investigate the probable relationship...

Narrative is one of the fundamental modes of creative expression. Creativity plays a central role in the effective design of film, novels, oral stories, computer games and most other narrative media. Beyond the creation of narratives intended to entertain, narrative is used as a powerful mode of communication in a range of other contexts. Narrative and its creative design plays a role in educat...

The use virtual environments in training applications has the potential to provide rich training experiences to students, but it is difficult to design and manage such training sessions in real time due to the number of parameters to pay attention to: timing of events, difficulty, user’s actions and their consequences or eventualities are some examples. Narrative driven scenario managers confro...

The paper considers the recent academic struggle between the "narratologists" and the "ludologists", and argues that it was exacerbated by two sources of confusion. The first confusion was differing concepts of immersion as an outcome of mediated experience. "Suspension of disbelief" and "flow" are both immersive states, but they grow out of fundamentally different processes of engagement. The ...