Digital techniques have been used to assist narrative and storytelling, especially in many
pedagogical practices. With the rapid development of HCI techniques, saturated with digital …

We have developed an embodied puppet interface that translates a player's body
movements to a virtual character, thus enabling the player to have a fine grained and …

Aspects of spatial cognition, specifically spatial skills, are strongly correlated with interest
and success in STEM courses and STEM-related professions. Because growth in STEM …

Recent experiments show video games have a range of positive cognitive effects, such as
improvement in attention, spatial cognition and mental rotation, and also overcoming of …

Using avatars in storytelling to assist narration has proved to be beneficial on promoting
creativity, collaboration and intimacy among young children. Development of novel Human …

World-building is among the most relevant and challenging aspects of authoring an
interactive digital narrative. These challenges can even be more significant when designing …

Extending previous research on tangible narratives, this paper introduces a new design
case-The Non-myth of the Noble Red. The preliminary work for building the case draws from …

An information-processing analysis describes observed behavior in terms of the encoding of
perceptual information, the manner in which internal psychological subsystems utilize the …

The Non-myth of the Noble Red is a tangible narrative that combines cardboard puppets
with digital storytelling in an integrated physical storyworld. This narrative employs …

In this paper, I describe the motivation for and the background necessary to develop and
evaluate an early set of design guidelines for creating tangible and embodied interfaces that …