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Title:
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CONVERSATIONAL NARRATIVE IN INTERFACE DESIGN |
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Author(s):
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Yan Wu |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8924-39-3 |
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Editors:
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António Palma dos Reis, Katherine Blashki and Yingcai Xiao (series editors:Piet Kommers, Pedro Isaías and Nian-Shing Chen) |
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Year:
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2007 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Conversational narrative, interface design, virtual world, instructional design, social computing |
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Type:
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Reflection Paper |
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First Page:
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227 |
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Last Page:
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230 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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With the increasing trend of social computing and the development of technology, narrative is becoming a major
representational method in the mass media and the academic world. More researchers apply conversational narrative in
the virtual world, intelligent tutor systems, and other hypertext interfaces. However, serious application of narrative as a
representational method in education needs both theoretical and empirical support that are lacking in the current
literature. This paper investigates the properties of conversational narrative from which it shows how conversational
narrative functions as a unique method to communicate meanings and affect the reader. The paper then introduces an
empirical study designed to test these proposed properties of conversational narrative, and conversational narrative is
contrasted to expository text as the design method in an online course. |
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