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This paper presents the rationale and deployment for a participatory photography approach to elicit the life experiences and worldviews of a community -- in our case, undocumented Hispanic migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. The Fotohistorias participatory technique involves conducting interviews with potential participants, giving them digital cameras and asking them to take photos of their lives,...
User feedback is crucial to improve software quality. For example, it can be used to identify missing features and clarify user trends and preferences for future improvement. However, obtaining user feedback is not a 'one-off' process which requires that developers need to gather user feedback in an on-going approach. The problem lies here: the majority of users are generally lack motivation and interest...
In the process of designing engineered systems, it is not uncommon for engineers to underestimate or altogether ignore the societal and cultural context of the problem. This is particularly true when designs are developed to solve world problems; a lack of societal consideration leads to implementation failures when engineers from developed countries attempt to design solutions "for" people...
This paper reports the results of the DiGiCult methodology for the generation of tourist's suggestions and cultural destinations basing on users' opinions in a community. Provided that any travel experience usually recalls other travelers experiences, this implies that the individual who is about to visit a desired destination might be more susceptible to suggestions given by a user he trusts, or...
The level of basic care in Brazil’s Unified Health System is a community-based attention model composed by Family Health Units, small teams of health professionals intended to solve low-complexity problems at a territory delimitated by a certain number of families, attended by Communitary Health Agents. Despite the large amount of social inequalities in Brazilian countryside, smartphones and tablets...
On social media, are Westerners more likely to use the first-person pronoun "I" and Easterners more likely to use the collective "we"? Do users from high-context cultures use more visual expression than their counterparts in low-context cultures? These kinds of questions suggest that Web 2.0 might be culture-bound, thereby explaining the popularity of local and regional equivalents...
The increasing smarteness of personal devices and territories are rapidly changing the scenarios of data production. Data access and/or data possession can determine positions of privilege, but the real competitive advantage will derive more and more from the ability to identify relevant dimensions and flows and, of course, from that to extract meaningful multidimensional descriptions aimed at detecting...
Requirements engineering (RE) often entails interdisciplinary groups of people working together to find novel and valuable solutions to a complex design problem. In such situations RE requires creativity in a form where interactions among stakeholders are particularly important: collaborative creativity. However, few studies have explicitly concentrated on understanding collaborative creativity in...
The goal of this study is to examine how to facilitate cross-cultural groups in problem-based learning (PBL) using video triggers and computer-based technology tools. Medical students from Asia and North America participated in two sessions and watched physicians deliver bad news to a patient in two video cases. Experienced facilitators help support collaboration in the two PBL sessions. An expert...
Computational models of the transmission of cultural information usually neglect that cultural transmission between individuals occurs mainly as a consequence of complex social interactions. We analyze the requirements for a computational model of a social psychological theory of cultural transmission, a theory which postulates that actors in a joint activity build on their common ground to align...
In today's internet age, online communication appears fundamental in global business dealings and transactions. By using Matsumoto et al. [12] concept of online intercultural adjustment, this study examines online intercultural communication in a Malaysian context. The working definition of intercultural communication, in this study, is based on the works of Kramsch [11] and Asuncion-Lande [2] which...
Indigenous knowledge is the basis for many remote, rural, and marginalized communities in society and as such, is an important component in the educational development of members within these communities. Due to many reasons, including colonization, a lack of understanding by hegemonic societies, and disparate knowledge systems (for example, orally based), there is a risk of this knowledge disappearing...
Indigenous knowledge is the basis for many remote, rural, and marginalized communities in society and as such, is an important component in the educational development of members within these communities. Due to many reasons, including colonization and a lack of understanding by hegemonic societies, there is a risk of this knowledge disappearing from many communities. Additionally, many of these communities...
Online People-to-People (P2P) lending marketplace allows individuals to lend and borrow directly among each other without the mediation of a creditor bank institution. Prior literature has examined how social capital influences P2P loan performance, but has largely been limited to the Western context. This paper thus explores how social capital influences P2P lending in the U.S. and China. Based on...
Based on the review on studies in computer-assisted language learning(CALL) in literature, this paper discusses the status quo of CALL and different perspectives related to teacher and students' engagement in CALL activities in China, finally suggests a long-term and a short term prospect guiding the understanding of teacher and students' development in a Chinese CALL context.
Online collaborative learning is an effective approach of learning, and e-tutor plays a vital role in the success of online learning. This paper first reviewed the relevant study on e-tutor's roles in online learning and proposes that it is through discourse that e-tutor builds his identity and realizes his role. Based on an online collaborative course delivered by Blackboard, the paper discusses...
In order to realize specific goals on informal learning, knowledge management and professional identity reform and development, more and more people, groups and organizations are looking to develop Internet-mediated communities of practice (IMCoP). Harnessing the perceived values of communities across educational or business context requires well-designed settings and great efforts on cultivation...
Many scholars research the relationship of knowledge management and organizational culture since the birth of knowledge management theory and their have a variety different points of view. Now we will sort out and comment on all those chronological points.
This document is part of a research done from Master Science in Telecommunications Engineering program of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, that links three strategies for interconnection which aim is to rescue the culture in the country from the schools. The current document shows a development model to be incorporated in Colombian education and describes three fundamental axes for its implementation...
The transition from ephemeral, ceremonial art to more permanent acrylic-on-board paintings has made Australian Aboriginal art more accessible to the public than ever before. However, early examples contained secret/sacred motifs and stories - knowledge recorded in the paintings that was normally only made available to initiates. In turn, this prompted contemporary Australian Aboriginal artists to...
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