Most requirements development and management efforts focus on the production of accessible and validated descriptions. Several methods and tools are in use today that aid the requirements engineer in writing, revising, and communicating requirements as text. This approach has several disadvantages. First, text constitutes a language barrier, particularly a challenge for global companies with di...

Can attending live theatre improve empathy by immersing audience members in the stories of others? We tested this question across three field studies (n = 1622), including a pre-registered replication. randomly assigned to complete surveys either before or after seeing plays, and measured effects plays on empathy, attitudes, pro-social behavior. After, as compared before, people reported greate...

Abstract This article discusses two children’s picture books, The Snail and the Whale (2003), written by Julia Donaldson illustrated Axel Scheffler, Secret of Black Rock (2017) Joe Todd-Stanton, as vibrant fantastic engagements with multispecies worlds. Drawing on new materialism studies, argues that these books exemplify possibilities inherent in literature imaging encounters communities appre...

This study examines how exposure to serial audiovisual narratives is associated with media users’ empathy. While mounting evidence suggests enhanced empathy following written, fictional narratives, the present expands this line of research context narratives. Considering that social interactions are instrumental for empathic development, vicarious proposed as a key mechanism in relationship bet...

Interactive technologies are being introduced into urban children’s lives in developing countries. It is critical that these children have an active voice in the process of developing such technologies. Towards these aims we describe the research goals, process and outcomes for an action research project. The overarching goal of the research is to investigate and better understand how edutainme...