Although story mapping strategy has been shown to be beneficial in many reading comprehension classes, the benefits of this technique have not been thoroughly investigated in L2 writing research. The small number of previous studies (e.g., Li, 2007; Brunner, 2010) have found the potential benefits of using story mapping strategy on students’ writing performance, but they did not focus on differ...

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...

This thesis proposes a new approach to video-based interactive narratives that uses real-time video compositing techniques to dynamically create video sequences representing the story events generated by planning algorithms. The proposed approach consists of filming the actors representing the characters of the story in front of a green screen, which allows the system to remove the green backgr...

(Riedl, Saretto, & Young 2003) describes narrative mediation, a plan-based technique for addressing human user actions that conflict with the story structure maintained by computer-controlled agents within interactive narrative environments. This technique is used to generate real-time system responses to unanticipated user actions while balancing user freedom with story coherence. Narrative me...

In this paper, seismic behavior of the existing buildings equipped by friction dampers is studied. Seismic performance of6-story, 9-story and 12-story steel buildings with damper and without damper were studied. The finite element modeling technique (SAP2000 Software) is used for analysis. Time History analyzing was done to achieve this purpose. For nonlinear dynamic analysis, the responses of ...

Automatic story unit segmentation is an essential technique for content based video retrieval and summarization. A good video story unit has complete content and natural boundary in visual and acoustic perception, respectively. In this paper, a method of acoustic perception friendly story unit segmentation for broadcast soccer video is proposed. The approach combines replay detection, view patt...

We have proposed a new approach to detect topically-related events from multi-lingual news sources. In particular, we are interested in Chinese and English on-line newswire stories. Three categories of named entities terms, namely, people names, geographical location names, and organization names, together with the story content terms constitute the basis for story representation. The named ent...

This paper presents an enhanced work from our previous paper [Chaisorn et al. 2002]. The system is enhanced to perform news story segmentation on a large video corpus used in TRECVID 2003 evaluation. We use a combination of features include visual-based features such as color, object-based features such as face, video-text, temporal features such as audio and motion, and semantic feature such a...