Current cognitive multimedia design theories provide several guidelines for how to integrate verbal and pictorial information. Based on a dual-channel information processing model, many authors have suggested using spoken rather than written text along with pictorial representations (e.g., animations). However, the directives for the design of auditory text (narration) are still fragmentary, es...

The goal of this study was to compare the lexical spelling performance of children and adolescents with specific language impairment (SLI) in two contrasting writing situations: a dictation of isolated words (a classic evaluative situation) and a narrative of a personal event (a communicative situation). Twenty-four children with SLI and 48 typically developing children participated in the stud...

A key issue in models of lexical production is whether a model of hearer knowledge influences speakers’ productions. In this study we investigate whether the durational shortening of repeated words is a consequence of mutual knowledge, or if it is a byproduct of speaker internal processes. In a study of spontaneously produced narrations, in Experiment 1 we demonstrated that repeated words are s...

The information disseminated in this era comprise of explanation of concepts, description of products and narration of events which obviously has a geographic or spatial reference component present in it. The happening of an event is always tied up to a spatial location. Not only the description of events, but various scientific documents and historical documents are also replete with spatial d...

This article analyses the use of film style in Rashomon (1950) to determine if the different accounts of the rape and murder provided by the bandit, the wife, the husband, and the woodcutter are formally distinct by comparing shot length data and using multiple correspondence analysis to look for relationships between shot scale, camera movement, camera angle, and the use of point-of-view shots...

Autonomous mobile robots navigate in our spaces by planning and executing routes to destinations. When a mobile robot appears at a location, there is no clear way to understand what navigational path the robot planned and experienced just by looking at it. In this work, we address the generation of narrations of autonomous mobile robot navigation experiences. We contribute the concept of verbal...

In the past two decades computers have begun to be used extensively as media. The two most influential types of media usage is the internet and the WWW, corresponding to telephone, letters, newspapers and television, and the computer game genre, corresponding to aesthetic products such as novels and movies. The unique characteristic of the computer medium is its interactivity, i.e. the fact tha...

In engaging with acts of self-narration that cross species lines, creators of animal autobiographies also broach questions about genre, truth status, and the structure as well as the politics of narrative representation. To address these questions, the present article draws not just on scholarship on (animal) autobiography but also on ideas from the fields of linguistic semantics, politeness th...