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Designing a Writing Support System Based on Narrative Comprehension of Readers  

Kwon, Hochang (한국과학기술원(KAIST) 지식서비스공학과)
Kwon, Hyuk Tae (한국과학기술원(KAIST) 산업및시스템공학과)
Yoon, Wan Chul (한국과학기술원(KAIST) 지식서비스공학과)
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Journal of the HCI Society of Korea / v.9, no.2, 2014 , pp. 23-31 More about this Journal
Abstract
A variety of writing support systems focus on the information management or the feature analysis of the commercially successful narrative texts. In these approaches, the reader's role in the narrative creating process is overlooked. During a writing work, an author anticipates the reader's response or expectation to the narrative and he/she organizes the narrative either along or against the prediction about readers. Assessing and controlling the reader's comprehension in the development of events influences the aesthetic quality of the narrative. In this paper, we suggest a writing support system to visualize and adjust the characteristics of a narrative text related to the reader's comprehension, which is theoretically based on the narrative structure model and the event-indexing situation model. Under the development of the support system, we designed an interactive framework to create events as the basic units of story and arrange them onto both story- and discourse-time axes. Using this framework, we analyzed the organization of events about an actual film narrative. We also proposed both the continuity of the situational dimensions and the cognitive complexity as the characteristics to affect the reader's comprehension, hence we devised a method to visualize and evaluate them. This method was applied to the actual film narrative and the result was discussed in the aspect of the features of the narrative and wiring support strategies.
Keywords
narrative comprehension; writing support system; situation model; event-indexing model; narrative coherence;
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