Several models o f narrative persuasion posit that a reader’s phenomenolog­ ical experience o f a narrative plays a mediating role in the persuasive ef­ fects o f the narrative. Because the narrative reading experience is multi­ dimensional, this experiment investigates which dimensions o f this experi­ ence referred to here as narrative engagement mediate between read­ ing a story and the pers...

The effective practice of medicine requires narrative competence, that is, the ability to acknowledge, absorb, interpret, and act on the stories and plights of others. Medicine practiced with narrative competence, called narrative medicine, is proposed as a model for humane and effective medical practice. Adopting methods such as close reading of literature and reflective writing allows narrati...

The role of story and narrative within games has been debated at length. By taking the approach that narrative can be understood with games, but only by incorporating the dynamics of game play and by accepting that existing models of narrative must be modified, this paper examines the place of narrative within role-playing games. Narrative can be defined as a description of a series of events. ...

Recent years have seen an emerging interest in narrativecentered learning, ushering in a wave of research on adaptive story-based systems for education and training. Among the aims of current narrative-centered learning work is the creation of environments that draw students into the story while simultaneously satisfying pedagogical goals in an enjoyable, motivating, and effective manner. In th...

Narrative-centered learning environments offer significant potential for creating effective learning experiences in which students actively participate in engaging story-based problem solving. As the capabilities of narrativecentered learning environments expand, a key challenge is identifying experiential factors that contribute to the most effective story-based learning. To investigate the im...

Narrative peaks are points at which the viewer perceives a spike in the level of dramatic tension within the narrative flow of a video. In this paper we describe two approaches for automatic identification of narrative peaks in short-form documentaries, within the framework of the VideoCLEF 2009 Affect Detection task. Both approaches exploit the speech recognition transcript in order to identif...

In her reflections on the narrative research approach, the author starts by placing narrative research within the framework of sociocultural theory, where the challenge for the researcher is to examine and understand how human actions are related to the social context in which they occur and how and where they occur through growth. The author argues that the narrative as a unit of analysis prov...

Abstract Social scientists have become increasingly interested in how narratives —the stories fiction, politics, and life—shape beliefs, behavior, government policies. This paper provides an unsupervised method to quantify latent narrative structures text documents. Our new software package relatio identifies coherent entity groups maps explicit relations between them the text. We provide appli...

Narrative generation is the process of automatically generating narrative stories (fictional or not) through a narrative model. With the advances in machine learning and natural language processing techniques, narrative generators have been able to create more creative and interesting text in terms of narrative contents and story telling techniques. These systems have applications in a range of...

BACKGROUND Traditionally most health education materials are written in an expository non-narrative format. Scholars have argued that the effectiveness of materials may increase when these texts are replaced by narrative texts, and that the non-narrative texts should be replaced by narrative texts. However, no previous studies have tested these claims in the context of school health education f...