Recent years have seen an emerging interest in narrativecentered learning, ushering in a wave of research on adaptive story-based systems for education and training. Among the aims of current narrative-centered learning work is the creation of environments that draw students into the story while simultaneously satisfying pedagogical goals in an enjoyable, motivating, and effective manner. In th...

Narrative-centered learning environments offer significant potential for creating effective learning experiences in which students actively participate in engaging story-based problem solving. As the capabilities of narrativecentered learning environments expand, a key challenge is identifying experiential factors that contribute to the most effective story-based learning. To investigate the im...

Narrative peaks are points at which the viewer perceives a spike in the level of dramatic tension within the narrative flow of a video. In this paper we describe two approaches for automatic identification of narrative peaks in short-form documentaries, within the framework of the VideoCLEF 2009 Affect Detection task. Both approaches exploit the speech recognition transcript in order to identif...

In her reflections on the narrative research approach, the author starts by placing narrative research within the framework of sociocultural theory, where the challenge for the researcher is to examine and understand how human actions are related to the social context in which they occur and how and where they occur through growth. The author argues that the narrative as a unit of analysis prov...

Narrative generation is the process of automatically generating narrative stories (fictional or not) through a narrative model. With the advances in machine learning and natural language processing techniques, narrative generators have been able to create more creative and interesting text in terms of narrative contents and story telling techniques. These systems have applications in a range of...

BACKGROUND Traditionally most health education materials are written in an expository non-narrative format. Scholars have argued that the effectiveness of materials may increase when these texts are replaced by narrative texts, and that the non-narrative texts should be replaced by narrative texts. However, no previous studies have tested these claims in the context of school health education f...

The sociocultural ways of conceptualizing human learning in general education have given rise to various sensitive and time-consuming tools of knowledge production for both the researcher and the researched. The gravity of the situation is more noticeable in narrative inquiry methodology, which has gathered momentum in both general education and second language teacher education (SLTE) because ...

The recent increase in interest in Interactive Storytelling systems, spurred on by the emergence of affordable virtual reality technology, has brought with it a need to address the way in which narrative content is visualized through the complex staging of multiple narrative agents’ behaviors within virtual story worlds. In this work we address the challenge of automating several aspects of sta...

AIM To determine whether narrative information in emergency department surveillance systems can be systematically interrogated to improve our understanding of the causes of injury. METHODS Screening algorithms for location, intent, and activity were developed from structured analysis of narrative data from 98999 records. The algorithms were then tested on a 50000 record database containing en...