THISARTICLE PRESENTS A BIBLIOGRAPHY of 136 works of fiction, published in English, which feature deaf characters. It is divided into sections: novels for adult readers (fifty-six entries), short stories (thirtynine entries), fiction-young adults and older children (twenty-five entries), and books for young children (sixteen entries). Drama and poetry are not included. To aid in collection devel...

There is a growing interest in producing story based game experiences that do not follow fixed scripts predefined by the author, but change the experience based on actions performed by the player during his interaction. In order to achieve this objective, previous approaches have employed a drama management component that produces a narratively pleasing arc based on an author specified aestheti...

In interactive drama, whether for entertainment or training purposes, there is a need to balance the enforcement of authorial intent with player autonomy. A promising approach to this problem is the incorporation of an intelligent Drama Manager (DM) into the simulated environment. The DM can intervene in the story as it progresses in order to (more or less gently) guide the player in an appropr...

Interactive Pedagogical Dramas (IPD) are compelling interactive stories that have didactic purpose. Autonomous agents realize the characters in these dramas. Their roles may be to portray humans facing overwhelming, emotionally-charged difficulties. This challenges the agents to interact with a depth and subtlety that is consistent with human behavior in difficult, stressful situations. To addr...

Adolescent cyber-bullying on social networks is a phenomenon that has received widespread attention. Recent work by sociologists has examined this phenomenon under the larger context of teenage drama and it's manifestations on social networks. Tackling cyber-bullying involves two key components – automatic detection of possible cases, and interaction strategies that encourage reflection and emo...

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Interactive drama has been discussed for a number of years as a new AI-based interactive experience (Laurel 1986, Bates 1992). While there has been substantial technical progress in building believable agents (Bates, Loyall and Reilly 1992, Blumberg 1996, Hayes-Roth, van Gent and Huber 1996), and some technical progress in interactive plot (Weyhrauch 1997), no work has yet been completed which ...

This paper describes a way to bridge the remaining conceptual gap between the conventions of digital games and those of non-theatrical drama forms, particularly when both fields are applied to non-entertainment settings. The approaches and literature surrounding both David Williamson Shaffer’s work in epistemic games and Dorothy Heathcote’s work in applied drama are compared. The teaching strat...

Although psychotropic drugs have been hailed as, 'One of the success stories of modern psychiatry' the prescribing of these medicines has not been without commotion, concern and controversy. Moreover, the President of the World Psychiatry Association Professor Dinesh Bhugra and colleagues, after conducting a recent large-scale study (n=25,522) on psychiatric morbidity in the UK, collectively is...