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Yarn: a product for unraveling stories

Published: 26 October 2014 Publication History

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Writing is one of the oldest human activities, dating back as far as 3200 BCE. This paper provides an industrial case study about understanding the creative writing process using interviews and directed storytelling on aspiring and established writers and educators, performed during a one year capstone project, where teams of HCI students pair up with industrial designers and developers in order to solve a real world design problem. After 26 interviews and 55 hours of analysis, four concepts were used as dimensions to analyse creative writing applications: serendipity, haven, evolution and shuffle.
Based on these ideas, we developed a series of prototypes by gradually increasing the fidelity of each successive prototype and making changes elicited from user feedback. The culmination of our process is Yarn, a new writing application. Yarn helps writers "unravel their story." With Yarn, a writer can (i) Play with structure; (ii) Easily move chunks of writing; (ii) Create alternatives of sections, and (iv) Write in a beautiful distraction-free way.

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Twyla Tharp (2006). The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life. Simon & Schuster.
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Erin A. Carroll and Celine Latulipe (2012). Triangulating the personal creative experience: self-report, external judgments, and physiology. In Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2012 (GI '12). Canadian Information Processing Society, Toronto, Ont., Canada, Canada, 53--60.
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Gal Oestreicher-Singer and Lior Zalmanson. 2013. Content or community? a digital business strategy for content providers in the social age. MIS Q. 37, 2 (June 2013), 591--616.

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  • (2019)Push-Based Network-efficient Hadoop YARN Scheduling Mechanism for In-Memory Computing2019 IEEE 25th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS)10.1109/ICPADS47876.2019.00026(133-140)Online publication date: Dec-2019

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    NordiCHI '14: Proceedings of the 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Fun, Fast, Foundational
    October 2014
    361 pages
    ISBN:9781450325424
    DOI:10.1145/2639189
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    Published: 26 October 2014

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    1. creative writing tools
    2. creativity support tools
    3. user interface design

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    • (2019)Push-Based Network-efficient Hadoop YARN Scheduling Mechanism for In-Memory Computing2019 IEEE 25th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS)10.1109/ICPADS47876.2019.00026(133-140)Online publication date: Dec-2019

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