Sense-making is an act of everyday creativity. Research suggests that comprehending the world is an act of story construction. Story comprehension, the process of modeling the world of a fictional narrative, thus involves creative story construction ability. In this paper, we present an intelligent system that “reads” a story and incrementally builds a model of the story world. Based on psychol...

The present study was carried out to examine the effect of movement and coloring of concomitant pictures on children's story learning. The story was Hans Christian Andersen's HINAGIKU (daisy), which was 47 sentences long. In relation to the story, the subjects in experimental groups were presented the static or moving pictures by means of picture-card show or animation video. Those pictures wer...

The authoring of fictional stories is considered a creative process. The purpose of most story au-thoring is not to invent a new style or genre of story that will be accepted by the population but to invent a single narrative that is novel enough to be tellable. Computational story generation systems are more limited in the space of narratives than human authors because it is often the case tha...

User Stories sind ein probates Mittel zum Austausch von Anforderungen in der agilen Softwareentwicklung. Die Anwendung ist jedoch kritisch, da sich immer wieder Fehler in der Beschreibung einzelner Formularfelder wie den Akzeptanzkriterien einschleichen. Mit diesen fehlerhaften User Stories müssen Personen mit individuellen Erfahrungen ein gemeinsames mentales Modell konstruieren. Häufig ist de...

This paper briefly describes our proposal for storytelling in virtual environments from a virtual guide perspective. In our model the guide begins at a particular location and starts to navigate the world telling the user stories related to the places she visits. Our guide tries to emulate a real guide’s behaviour in such a situation. In particular, she behaves as a spontaneous real guide who k...

Kobayashi, K. Nagashima, N. Sakamoto, S. S. Russell, S. Itoh and H. Yurimoto. Division of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan ([email protected]); Hawai’i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA; Department of Mineralogy, The Natura...

We define analytic torsion τ (X,E ,H) ∈ detH(X, E ,H) for the twisted de Rham complex, consisting of differential forms on a compact Riemannian manifold X valued in a flat vector bundle E , with a differential given by ∇ +H ∧ · , where ∇ is a flat connection on E , H is an odd-degree closed differential form on X, and H(X, E ,H) denotes the cohomology of this Z2-graded complex. We show that whe...

I am very proud and excited for the future of the Asian Oncology Nursing Society (AONS). The vision over eight years ago of developing an Asian organization has clearly become a reality. I am very grateful to have received a plaque of appreciation from AONS President, Myungsun Yi along with my colleagues Kazuko Onishi from Japan and Pongpak Pittayapan from Thailand. However, I would be remiss i...

This article introduces two theoretical concepts for the emerging field Knowledge Visualization and discusses a new visualization application that was used to communicate a long-term project to various stakeholders in an organization. First, we introduce a theoretical framework and a model for Knowledge Visualization. The framework and the model identify and relate the key-aspects for successfu...