With a cell phone camera a person can take pictures and immediately transmit them to larger repositories using telecommunication channels. This provides the potential for anywhere, anytime picture sharing and story telling. It can also increase awareness among peers within a social network. But while we enjoy telling stories around this informal content, the necessary act of downloading, organi...

Teaching through story telling has been recognized as a pedagogical paradigm that enhances learning outcomes at many levels. Understanding life, science and even technological concepts becomes easier if the educational content is presented as a well-linked narrative. Movement Oriented Design (MOD) is a paradigm that views any presentation as a story telling artifact. From Aristotle’s time we ha...

the old, rich and popular tradition of verbal story telling by narrators has been prevalent among all indo-europeans, especially aryans who were living in the iranian plateau, in the eastern parts of iran and khorasan. this tradition of oral narration has kept fiction and also historical events and has transmitted them to us. the writer of this article tries to evaluate this tradition and analy...

We are investigating techniques for supporting autonomous dialogue in interactive story telling. That is, instead of writing a script for every possible sequence of events, we would like to develop an approach in which story characters have more autonomy in deciding what to say when. We describe our current research on applying dialogue games theory to interactive story telling. We illustrate t...

Engineering design practice can be viewed as a process of “story telling,” where the “stories” generated explore various aspects of the design process and the designed artefact. This paper focuses on the study of the design process by using computational linguistics to analyze time variant patterns of “story telling” in eight multidisciplinary student design teams at the University of Californi...