BACKGROUND Alaska Native people have nearly twice the rate of colorectal cancer (CRC) incidence and mortality as the US White population. OBJECTIVE Building upon storytelling as a culturally respectful way to share information among Alaska Native people, a 25-minute telenovela-style movie, What's the Big Deal?, was developed to increase CRC screening awareness and knowledge, role-model CRC co...

Storytelling games are a form of competitive storytelling framed in the context of gameplay. However, most existing storytelling games emphasize competitive gameplay and winning at the expense of competitive narrative play; they tend to be storytelling games rather than storytelling games. This paper explores issues related to the design of storytelling games that are won through narrative play...

Adventure game development systems are platforms from the developer’s perspective. This paper investigates several subtle differences between these platforms, focusing on two systems for interactive fiction development. We consider how these platform differences may have influenced authors as they developed systems for simulation and storytelling. Through close readings of Dan Shiovitz’s Bad Ma...

Storytelling has long been part of a child’s educational development, however, its use as a learning tool in higher education has not been fully explored and offers great potential in supporting the learning process. This paper proposes the use of storytelling as a reflective tool in higher education and investigates this by considering its use in art and design to support reflection about asse...

This article explores the use of storytelling as part of an overall approach to the teaching of information technology in tertiary education. The author defines the context of use of storytelling in terms of the various types of education being delivered and the delivery methods, and then explores the potential uses and benefits of storytelling. A sample story is included and briefly analysed t...

The storytelling method can be used to work through intractable conflicts. Workingthrough enables people who have suffered traumatic social experiences to learn to live with these painful events while developing an ability to listen to the pain of the “other.” The storytelling approach focuses on the way personal storytelling facilitates the working-through processes in intractable conflicts. T...

introduction every day, we see the numerous works and articles which are published about shāhnāme. in this massive volume of writings, shāhnāme is in the center of attention and is viewed from different perspectives and angles: from the discussion on the words and lines of shāhnāme and to the reflections on its stories, characters and myths, from the ferdowsi’s life to the effect of the shāhnām...

In knowledge management, the act of telling stories is utilized to capture and convey knowledge. Spoken language is the basis for telling stories. Collaborative audiobased storytelling uses the act of verbally telling stories in groups. In this paper, we explore how to utilize verbally told stories for informal knowledge management. To identify the requirements for an information system that su...