In: Frank Gadinger, Martina Kopf, Ayşem Mert, and Christopher Smith (eds.). Political Storytelling: From Fact to Fiction (Global Dialogues 12) This essay presents a summary of important perspectives concerning the distinction between what counts as truth or fiction. As a source of …

Preschool children's vocabulary mainly develops verbal through interaction. Therefore, the technology-enhanced storytelling (TES) activity Jeffy's Journey is developed to support parent–child interaction and vocabulary in preschool children. TES entails shared verbal storytelling supported by a story …

This research paper contains improvements for Jilster B.V.’s marketing communication. Jilster is losing out on revenue opportunties because visitors to their websites’ don’t understand what Jilster is for, and this may be due to the current marketing communication methods. Jilster has had some success …

In 2015 hebben directeuren, leerkrachten van basisscholen, ouders, studenten en docent/onderzoekers van de Hanzehogeschool Groningen een eerste training gevolgd in het vangen van verhalen. In deze training leren de deelnemers dat een verhaal een aansprekende, voor iedereen begrijpelijke manier is om …

Interactive Poetry is a lively genre within E-Lit and interactive digital narrative that was made more accessible by the diffusion of tablets with “multitouch” screens allowing relatively complex gestural UIs on consumer-level hardware. This paper leverages pragmatist aesthetics to critically interrogate …

This study investigates whether an interactive surround video is perceived as more enjoyable when there is some auditory feedback on interactive moments. We constructed a questionnaire that measured presence, effectance, autonomy, flow, enjoyment, system usability, user satisfaction and identification, …

Information and communications technologies (ICT) can be very important to provide access to urban cultural heritage collections. Urban archives contain a lot of (historical) information about people, places, events, objects, trade and artefacts. Its worthwhile to make this information accessible for …

Fans constitute a very special kind of audience. They have been marginalized, ridiculed and stigmatized, yet at the same time they seem to represent the vanguard of new relationships with and within the media. ‘Participatory culture’ has become the new normative standard. Concepts derived from early …

Technologies that were initially developed to be applied within the domain of video games are currently being used in experiments to explore their meaning and possibilities for cinema and cinema audiences. In this position paper we examine how narrativity, interactivity and engagement are mutually reshaped …

Sprookjes appelleren aan de “doen-alsof” situatie, die echter de werkelijkheid soms pijnlijk nauwkeurig lijken te raken. Als een vervolg op “lievelingsrollen” lijkt ook dit boek een verdere bijdrage te kunnen leveren aan de ontwikkeling van de creatieve therapie. Zoals in het verleden ook storytelling …