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Long story generation (LSG) is one of the coveted goals in natural language processing. Different from most text generation tasks, LSG requires to output a long story of rich content based on a much shorter text input, and often suffers from information ...

In this research study, we investigate the impact of using the Story Programming approach to teach CS concepts on student performance in a subsequent C++ class. In particular, we compare how students receiving little or no coding to learn and apply ...

Story Programming is an approach for teaching complex computational and algorithmic thinking skills using simple stories anyone can relate to. One could learn these skills independent of a computer or with the use of a computer as a tool to interact ...

Most of the current educational mobile apps for children are developed from the perspectives of developed countries. Due to this, many times parents from the developing/underdeveloped countries do not consider these apps fit to their socio-cultural ...

Activity trackers tell stories about exercising. They entail "scripts," which suggest courses of actions and amplify the perception of particular aspects and structures (i.e., numbers, performance). This paper discusses the need to critically examine ...

Social media has begun to migrate from a predominantly text-based medium, through photography and into cinematography and edited video. Film is a vital medium through which we not only capture our world, but also seek to understand it. This workshop ...

There has been a massive growth in the number of people who film and upload amateur footage of events to services such as Facebook and Youtube, or even stream live to services such as LiveStream. We present an exploratory study that investigates the ...

Cross-cultural research is mainly based upon the measurement of cross-cultural dimensions popularized by Hofstede (1980, 2001), Trompenaars (1993) or Schwartz (1994). These dimensions stemming from attitude scales are useful to compare national cultural ...

You offer your product in a very competitive environment where potential users can choose among many existing solutions. In order to get chosen by potential users you have to somehow get noticed and stand out from the other available solutions. ...

This paper describes a few challenges and many rewards of piloting the teaching of the programming language, Alice, in our Upper School consisting of middle school (grades 6-8) and high school (grades 9-12). We teach Alice as a stand-alone course at ...

The media curation craze has spawned a multitude of new sites that help users to collect and share web content. Some market themselves as spaces to explore a common interest through different types of related media. Others are promoted as a means for ...

Archeological remnants in urban areas tend to be included in the urban landscape or even remain hidden in subterranean locations which are not visible and, for these reasons, they are accessed with difficulty by visitors. In our previous experience, we ...

Moori is a hybrid form of an audience participatory dynamic narrative and an audio-visual performance system. By incorporating a smart phone's dynamic interface and SMS, users share their thoughts to proposed questions by a performer. Through text ...

Motivation -- If modelling is included in the requirements analysis phase of a systematic interaction design method, it mostly focuses on some kind of formalism, e.g., task modelling and requirements specification. However, when designing in ...

Reminiscing is a positive pastime for people with dementia but little is known about selecting materials to prompt reminiscing, particularly whether personal items are more useful than generic ones. This paper reports two small studies, the first using ...

As communities develop technological literacy and explore how technology can impact their lives, the future of urban computing will come from grass-roots initiatives in addition to traditional top-down urban planning. To this end, we aim to engage the ...

Sensor Poetics proposes the idea of a fictional gadget called the 'weather camera' and uses this as a scenario to pose questions about story telling, data narratives, our relation to weather and the possibility of a digital product long-tail.

Euroview Animation is developing a methodology for teaching CGI within the Communications Department of University of Navarre based on the participation of the students in actual productions. We base our educational methodology in the real hands-on ...

A story is a powerful abstraction used by intelligence analysts to conceptualize threats and understand patterns as part of the analytical process. This paper demonstrates a system that detects geo-temporal patterns and integrates story narration to ...

The paper summarizes the results of an online survey of 43 professionals working in the animation industry, including modelers, animators, technical directors, conceptual artists and lighting and texture artists. Respondents were asked to rate the ...