This paper gives an overview of the UK network RIDERS – Research in Interactive Drama Environments, Role-Play and Story-telling, running for 36 months from September 2011. It discusses the three central themes of RIDERS: theoretical work on the conflict between interactivity and narrative content, problems, issues and tools relating to authoring, and directions in evaluation. It gives a brief o...

This study documents experiences of parents who chose to disclose, and intended to disclose to their children, information about the donor involvement, and children's responses when they received this information. Of the 181 parents who responded, 30% (n = 54) gave their children information about their conception (34 families). Couples chose to tell when 'it just seemed right' or when they bel...

t-minus-460 msec Beth and Alan are sitting at a Fifth Avenue outdoors restaurant in Manhattan. Alan is telling Beth an exciting story about his vacation in Nice. Alan presents the story through gesture and speech. Then Beth’s arm starts moving and her neck stiffens. We, the viewers, know that she’s surprised to see an elephant in the middle of Manhattan, and that in 460 milliseconds her arm and...

We discuss the importance of narrative intelligence (story-awareness, story-telling, historical grounding) in regard to an agent’s transcendence of its immediate local temporal context to create a broad temporal horizon in which the experience and future of the agent can be accounted for, together with the advantage that narrative provides to sociality by making the experience of others availab...

On the causal approach to explanation, explaining a phenomenon is telling the actual causal story as to why it occurs. Science is full of idealizing explanations that deliberately falsify the relevant causal story. Therefore, either (a) the causal approach to explanation is mistaken, or (b) idealizing explanations, however convenient, are deeply flawed. Correct? I don’t think so. I show that on...

Photo collections are one of the promising sources to tell story of life in this digital era. In this paper we present our work on organizing photos of a lifetime by exploiting semantic annotations. The complexity in using semantic technology is managed by introducing an annotation template corresponding to who, when, where, and what. Semantics of each dimension are semiautomatically annotated ...

Story- telling has been a very common and age-old genre of literature. It nevertheless followed in every sphere life vis-à-vis political, social, psychological, educational many more. is an art by itself. Ikigai Japanese concept living which translates itself as ‘Reason for Being’. One needs to feel inherent desire stay motivated live on one’s own terms. The four basic forms story-telling this ...

A project shared by humanities in medicine, bioethics, social scientific studies of medical practice, and related studies can be summarized by the following question: How can we reduce the gap between suffering caused by the body's deteriorations, whether the result of illness, disability, or aging, and the total suffering that attends these deteriorations? In approaching this question, a signi...