This paper considers narrative theory in the light of the requirements of a project just started to use stories around the theme of bullying to build empathy in child users and achieve pedagogical objectives. It describes and discusses the theories of Aristotle, Propp and Barthes, and concludes that the approach taken in improvisational drama and human Role playing Games is more appropriate for...

iii   this study was an attempt to determine the effect of task-based approach vs. traditional approach on the narrative and expository writing of the iranian efl learners. there were two control groups as well as two experimental ones in the current study. in the two control groups namely g1 and g2 narrative and expository writing were taught respectively using the traditiona...

Psychiatry is perhaps the most "narrative" of all medical specialties, but here as elsewhere clinical skills are in danger of being lost as evidence-based medicine becomes the dominant paradigm in medical culture. Psychotherapy is a quintessentially narrative discipline. Starting from an "attachment" perspective, the uses of narrative in psychotherapy are outlined. These include the importance ...

Purpose of the paper and literature addressed: The aim of the paper is to polish the use of qualitative methods in inter-organizational research by discussing how narrative approach can be applied into interorganizational research. The paper relies the key literature related to narratives: narrative cognition (Bruner 1986), narrative interviewing (Mishler 1986, Flick 2004), data gathering and a...

Adaptive hypermedia aims to create a tailored experience for users and with narrative generation this dynamic content can be in the form of engaging stories. Narrative generation systems range from the automatic generation of bespoke stories to the representation of existing information as narrative. However narrative generation systems often produce bland and unvaried stories. In this paper we...

In terms of sign systems and the way they are used, the experience of the interactive resembles nothing else so much as it resembles the experience of narrative. Narrative is best understood as a relationship between a Teller and a Listener, a relationship that is formal, moral and structural. The interactive reframes acts of narrative from re-counts and re-presentations towards simulation and ...

Storytelling is an integral part of the human experience, and understanding how stories or narratives are generated can offer insight into their importance. Current research focuses on the introduction of narrative knowledge into the generation process in order to facilitate the creation of qualitatively good narratives. Narrative generation and narrative knowledge, however, are two sides of th...

Narrative-centered learning environments offer significant promise for promoting interactive learning experiences that are both effective and engaging. Models of narrative generation and reasoning can balance the motivational and pedagogical aspects of narrative-centered learning interactions. Affect recognition and affect expression models are useful for shaping students’ affective trajectorie...

Many studies have looked at the potential of using narrative to create engaging experiences with designed objects or to enrich the design process. However, the concept of narrative is fuzzy and open to interpretation, as it is used to mean different things by different disciplines and approaches. This paper presents five definitions of narrative based on narrative theory. The use of narrative i...

There have been numerous calls to incorporate narrative more explicitly into social science methods. Towards that end, this paper identifies a range of choices concerning the analysis of narrative data. I argue that preserving the most basic features of narrative (sequential structure) is helpful, but that incorporating more aspects of narrative (such as the focal actor(s), narrative voice, and...