Two Articles in Special Issue of Literary and Linguistic Computing.

We’re delighted to announce that the June 2013 special issue of Literary and Linguistic Computing on “Digital Humanities 2011: Big Tent Digital Humanities” features two articles co-authored by our researchers:

Dustin Grue, Teresa M. Dobson, and Monica Brown. “Reading Practices and Digital Experiences: An Investigation into Secondary Students’ Reading Practices and XML-Markup Experiences of Fiction.” Literary and Linguistic Computing 28.2 (June 2013): 237-248. Print.

Monica Brown, Teresa M. Dobson, Dustin Grue, and Stan Ruecker. “Challenging New Views on Familiar Plotlines: A Discussion of the Use of XML in the Development of a Scholarly Tool for Literary Pedagogy.” Literary and Linguistic Computing 28.2 (June 2013):199-208. Print.

Interedition

Teresa Dobson and Stan Ruecker attended the Interedition conference in the Hague, Netherlands (19-20 March 2012), to deliver a paper on behalf of the team: “Neither Bicycles nor Sheep: Crowdsourcing Semantic Encoding for Elements of Plot” (authors: Teresa M. Dobson, Stan Ruecker, Dustin Grue, Monica Brown).

Article in Visible Language

Our latest PlotVis publication has just appeared in Visible Language and is available here. Our work is featured on the cover of the print version of the journal issue. The full citation is included below.

Dobson, T. M., Michura, P., Ruecker, S., Brown, M., & Rodriguez, O. (2011). Interactive visualizations of plot in fiction. Visible Language, 45, 166-185.

International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED 2011)

Teresa Dobson and Stan Ruecker presented a paper on PlotVis at the International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED 2011), Valencia, Spain, 7-9 March 2011.

Dobson, T.M. and Ruecker, S. (2011). Beyond the Cartesian Graph: 3D Visualization in Literary Classrooms. In The Proceedings of the International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED2011), Valencia Spain, 7-9 March 2011. Abstract: http://library.iated.org/view/DOBSON2011BEY

International Systemic Functional Congress Pre-Congress Institute

Teresa Dobson and Monica Brown presented the PlotVis project at the International Systemic Functional Congress Pre-Congress Institute this week.

Dobson, T.M. and Brown, M. Possibilities for Text Visualization in Literary Education. 37th International Systemic Functional Congress Pre-Congress Institute, University of British Columbia, 12-16 July, 2010.

PlotVis Prototype Launched

Omar Rodriguez completed the first version of PlotVis based on sketches by Piotr Michura of a Fibonacci sequence model. Shown below is a screen shot of the first iteration of PlotVis, built using the Unity game engine.