CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL MEDIATION MEETS MULTIMEDIA-BASED ADAPTIVE STORYTELLING: A PROFILE-SENSITIVE SYSTEM FOR PERSONALIZED PRESENTATIONS

Abstract

The paper highlights the reasons for implementation and the functions of a system that proposes advanced facilities for setting up adapted storytelling-based presentations. Educational and cultural mediations are privileged but not exclusive. In the first part we propose a quick review of the state-of-the-art concerning the storytelling shift in ICT research and development; we discuss, specifically, its power to render interpretation strategies salient, promote reading and, hopefully, understanding. In the second part we briefly describe the most innovative functionalities of the system both in constructing and visualizing presentations. We particularly focus on: i. the creation of the presentation fulcrum, ii. the construction of a presentation, iii. the implementation of an ―intelligent‖ module that offers contextualized assistance, able to expand and adapt a presentation to different reception expectations and iv. the indexing/research module. We finish with a brief discussion about some evaluation results and conclude with the contributions of the presented approach.