Action! suspense! culture! insight! : reading stories in the classroom

Running title: Reading stories in the classroomAt head of title: Center for the Study of Reading.Bibliography: leaves 32-39Supported in part by the National Institute of Education under contract no. US-HEW-C-400-81-003

The Virtual Storyteller: story generation by simulation

The Virtual Storyteller is a multi-agent framework that generates stories based on a concept called emergent narrative. In this paper, we describe the motivation and approach of the Virtual Storyteller, and give an overview of the computational processes involved in the story generation process. We also discuss some of the challenges posed by our chosen approach

Ask, and shall you receive?: Understanding Desire Fulfillment in Natural Language Text

The ability to comprehend wishes or desires and their fulfillment is important to Natural Language Understanding. This paper introduces the task of identifying if a desire expressed by a subject in a given short piece of text was fulfilled. We propose various unstructured and structured models that capture fulfillment cues such as the subject's emotional state and actions. Our experiments with two different datasets demonstrate the importance of understanding the narrative and discourse structure to address this task

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Transporting the binge-watching television audiences : a look at the effects of genre schema and narrative relevance on the flow experience

This study proposes flow construct in binge watching is defined in terms of the experience (i.e. media enjoyment and high narrative transportation), structural properties of the flow activity (viewing plan, the interactivity with the video streaming services), and the antecedents of flow such as preexisting genre schema. Using an online survey, this study finds that (a) preexisting genre schema is significantly and positively related to flow experience in binge watching, (b) there is a significant interaction between preexisting genre schema and perceived realism to predict binge watchers’ flow experience, and (c) when binge watchers’ have higher perceptions of reality of narrative content, the flow experience varies, whereas when the binge watchers have low or medium perceived realism, the flow experience doesn’t vary. Theoretical and practical implications are discussedAdvertisin