which they communicatively highlight or de-emphasize. By using the communication strategies of anomaly-masking and anomaly-featuring, the stories' adherents reduce tension created when nonfitting relations become salient in a story. They direct attention away from the apparent complexity of experience. Yet, as Brown notes, the more human beings attempt to apply or "stretch" a story to explain a...

In this paper we present the initial conceptual design of an authoring tool for the emergent narrative agent architecture FAtiMA that powers the virtual bullying drama FearNot!. We explain that the process of authoring emergent narrative to a large part consists of designing a planning domain for a virtual character planner and explain the difficulties this task poses to the non-technical autho...

Networks have become the de facto diagram of the Big Data age (try searching Google Images for [big data AND visualisation] and see). The concept of networks has become central to many fields of human inquiry and is said to revolutionise everything from medicine to markets to military intelligence. While the mathematical and analytical capabilities of networks have been extensively studied over...

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING, SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS SCHOOL OF ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE INTELLIGENCE, AGENTS, MULTIMEDIA GROUP A mini-thesis submitted for transfer from MPhil to PhD by Mischa M Tuffield Personal information and the act of publishing multimedia artifacts to the World Wide Web is becoming more and more observable. This report presents an infrastructure for the capturing and ex...

The inter-subjective and dialogical nature of narrative therapy, as commonly practiced, remains unarticulated. Further, there currently exists no rigorous empirical research investigating the process or outcome of narrative therapy. The research aim, to investigate the process and outcome of narrative therapy, comprised theoretical and empirical objectives. The first objective was to articulate...

The task of narrative visualization has been the subject of increasing interest in recent years. Much like data visualization, narrative visualization offers users an informative and aesthetically pleasing perspective on “story data.” Automatically creating visual representations of narratives poses significant computational challenges due to the complex affective and causal elements, among oth...

Social Computing aims to support the tendency of humans to interact with computers as if they were veritable social actors. Technology that reinforces the bias toward social interaction by producing appropriate responses may improve the communication between humans and computational devices. We believe that the most natural way to realize social computing is by using life-like synthetic charact...