People s knowledge about the world comes from many sources, including fictional ones such as movies and novels. In three experiments, we investigated how people learn and integrate information from fictional sources with their general world knowledge. Subjects read a series of short stories that contained information about the real world. After a short delay, all participants took a general kno...

Tools exist for creating practically every type of artistic, creative, or communicative digital artifact, including pictures, music, video, and computer animation. While these tools make it technically feasible to produce creative content, they do not guarantee that the creator will produce work that is valued by a community as possessing quality or meaning. Can an intelligent system augment no...

From the field of artificial intelligence (AI) there is a growing stream of technology capable of being embedded in software that will reshape the way we interact with our environment in our everyday lives. This ‘AI software’ is often used to tackle more mundane tasks that are otherwise dangerous or meticulous for a human to accomplish. One particular area, explored in this paper, is for AI sof...

In the emergent narrative approach to Interactive Storytelling, narratives arise from the interactions between playeror computer-controlled characters in a simulated story world. This approach offers much freedom to the players, but this freedom may come at the cost of narrative structure. In this paper we study stories created by children using a storytelling system based on the emergent narra...

â  â  â  â  narration elements in the story of mousa and khezr â  (based on character and time) â  â  sayyed reza solayman zadeh najafi * â  azim tahmasbi ** â  â  abstract â  â  the story consists of elements such as character and time and the story features. characters make story’s structure and there is not story without character . time element is also necessary for the story . each story...

In our second installment of the infrared (IR) spectra polymers, we finish discussion spectrum polyethylene (PE) started last time. We explore how different PE syntheses produce materials with physical and spectroscopic properties, which introduces us to concept crystalline splitting rest story on CH2 rocking peaks.