Story telling is a fundamental part of clinical practice. It provides the mechanism by which doctors and patients communicate and understand the meaning of illness and possible ways of dealing with it. Humour is a particular aspect of story telling and, while there are some negative aspects, generally does have a therapeutic benefit. The physiological effects of laughter are considerable. Both ...

In this paper, we propose a method for supporting knowledge creation in a community by talking with virtualized-egos. We propose two ideas for the community knowledge creation. The first idea is talking with virtualized community member called ”virtualized-ego”; a virtualized-ego is a software agent that mimics a community member. Virtualized-egos replay past speeches of community members and g...

Reinforcing character education in the early childhood or preschooler was deemed important nowadays; however, order to do so it requires creative yet unique method pique young pupils’ interest. Therefore, this research intends elaborate idea of reinforcing by implementing Bilingual Story-Telling Picture Book towards pupils at one preschoolers located Malang, East Java. This composed specificall...