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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Chance encounters"”.
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Mediating chance encounters through opportunistic social matching
Chance encounters, the unintended meeting between people unfamiliar with each other, serve as an important social lubricant helping people to create new social ties, such as making new friends or finding an activity, study or collaboration partner. Unfortunately, social barriers often prevent …
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Reading a Place
A series of chance encounters with the city of Cleveland leads to a non-objective reading of this place. It is an intuitive approach, an attempt to understand the complexity of a city in fragments and to change the city's perception of itself. This thesis is a reciprocal play between conceiving and …
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How Form and Function Create Community in the Middle Landscape
… do not offer the opportunity for familiar and chance encounters or ritual activity. Large-scale housing development in Northern Virginia and in the mid-Atlantic region is continually segregating and ultimately destroying community and all links to the area's history. Located in Southern Fairfax …
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Building Blocks Retreat Center
… and experience true, lasting teamwork. Through chance encounters, shared spaces, and large group gathering areas, guests are encouraged to interact with each other in more than the expected ways. In breaking down barriers and formal establishments, guests embark upon a beautiful process intended …
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Reconsidering the 'other' : exploring perceptions of refugees in South Africa
… for themselves relying on networking and chance encounters. Finally, the perception that refugees never intend to leave South Africa is challenged by evidence of the complexities of returning 'home' where security is uncertain. Having considered the evidence, the thesis concludes that the …
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Sense of Place and New Urbanism: Towards a Holistic Understanding of Place and Form
… social interaction in the form of un-structured chance encounters with neighbors heavily influences the transformation of mere space into place. Further analysis indicates that such encounters are not directly related to density. Rather, the proximity of the housing, the connection between the …
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Relational Red Flags: Detecting Undesirable Qualities in Initial Romantic Encounters
… relationships, specifically initial romantic encounters (i.e. formal or informal first few dates, or random, chance encounters). The term relational red flag is put forth to describe the detection of signals in initial romantic encounters that may be perceived as any undesirable quality, which …
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Spatial qualities of innovation districts : how Third Places are changing the innovation ecosystem of Kendall Square
… a way that could stimulate social interaction, chance encounters and interfirm collaboration, which will contribute to the innovation ecosystem of a place.
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Utilitarian and community values in mainstream and alternative health care on Martha's Vineyard
… found though recommendation, Vineyard media, and chance encounters.</p> <p>This dissertation uses content analysis of actions performed by individuals, organizations, and communities. Utilitarian values were used to explain such actions. The types of utilitarian values could be thought of as …
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Unlikely Friendships - An Exploratory Review into the Defining Criteria of Associative Behaviour between Vertebrate Species
… behaviour occurrence beyond the expected ‘chance encounters’ and describe strong seasonality as well as minor agonistic interactions. Birds:MSA studies recorded fewer defining criteria variables on average than Primates:PSA making true comparison challenging. A unifying framework for …
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Contextual mobile adaptation
… components, with such connections made either in chance encounters or in designed multi–user interactions. Another aim of the thesis is to discover if users can comprehend and smoothly interact with systems that are adapting. To evaluate Domino, a multiplayer game called Castles has been …
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Convergence: A New Future for the Samuel Madden Homes
… are: • Encouraging neighborliness by increasing chance encounters as well as reducing the sharp threshold between private and public space often found in apartment-style buildings. • Increasing the visibility of human activity to the street in a multi-floor, multi-family project. • Using new mass …
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Pedestrian Accessibility and Individual’s Subjective Happiness
… to destinations), social interactions (e.g., chance encounters with community members), and a sense of belonging (e.g., through self-sufficient neighborhood amenities) — qualities that should also contribute to happiness. This thesis reports on an exploratory analysis of location quality and …