Computer-based multimedia learning environments — consisting of pictures (such as animation) and words (such as narration) — offer a potentially powerful venue for improving student understanding. How can we use words and pictures to help people understand how scientific systems work, such as how a lightning storm develops, how the human respiratory system operates, or how a bicycle tire pump w...

This study investigated a treatment for sentence production impairment in an individual with aphasia. Treatment was administered in two modules: the first involved training single verb naming, the second involved training sentence production. The sentence production treatment incorporated the principles of grammatical frame therapy (Mitchum & Berndt, 1994) and mapping therapy (Schwartz, Saffran...

Narration is a usual mode of sense-making in the new, ambiguous or equivocal situations. Here we characterize the role of narration in situations of comprehension and collective problem solving. Then we present an approach of modeling of narrative knowledge and the associated tool HyperStoriawhich makes it possible to assist a group in the acquisition and the modeling of narratives charts start...

We tested whether narrating growth from transgressions was associated with increased well-being, self-compassion, and forgiveness. Study 1 was cross-sectional (N = 118). Studies 2 and 3 were short-term longitudinal (N’s = 77 and 88). Study 1 revealed positive associations between narrating growth and well-being. Study 2 replicated Study 1 and growth-oriented narration was associated with increa...

With rapid advances in computer speech technology, TTS (text -to-speech) synthesis is becoming increasingly attractive as a supplement or even as an alternative to the human narration. This paper explores the potential of TTS synthesis in Web lectures. We propose WhiteboardVCR, a new approach that we have developed for producing and presenting Web lectures. The system supports synchronization o...

Students viewed a computer animation depicting the process of lightning. In Experiment 1, they concurrently viewed on-screen text presented near the animation or far from the animation, or concurrently listened to a narration. In Experiment 2, they concurrently viewed on-screen text or listened to a narration, viewed on-screen text following or preceding the animation, or listened to a narratio...

We present a web tool that allows users to explore news stories concerning the 2012 US Presidential Elections via an interactive interface. The tool is based on concepts of “narrative analysis”, where the key actors of a narration are identified, along with their relations, in what are sometimes called “semantic triplets” (one example of a triplet of this kind is “Romney Criticised Obama”). The...