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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"human connection"”.
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Being. Creative. Together. Designing Technologies That Center Human Connection, Co-creativity, and Calm in the Era of AI
… we must ask: Will these technologies deepen our connection to the timeless human experiences of Being, Being Together, and Being Creative Together—or will they pull us apart, leaving us more anxious and isolated? In an era where AI systems are increasingly framed as our “co-creators” and …
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To Co- Is Human: Designing Technologies That Center Human Connection, Co-creativity, and Calm in the Era of AI
… reclaims “co-” as a fundamental marker of shared human experience—using it as a foundation to reimagine and build technologies that consciously center interhuman connection and co-creativity. Central to this work, we’ve developed CoCo (coco.build)—a general-purpose, real-time co-creative learning …
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After Horses
… throughout: loneliness, the risk of human connection, the risk of a lack of human connection, the impossibility of language, hope as illuminating and good thing, hope as desperate and devouring thing, and an underlying fear and awareness of the fact that no one can be sure of what …
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Folk Dance: An Occupation For Building Community
… values held by this community: hospitality and human connection. Hospitality encompassed practices related to acceptance and inclusion and making people feel comfortable. Human connection illuminated practices that foster building relationships and connecting across boundaries. The findings …
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Behavioural economies in development decision making
This paper will research why businesses fail, the human connection to business failure – especially in the real estate market – and how to plan for success in real estate developments. It is important to understand the heuristics or rule of thumb of what, why and how an individual is driven to make …
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Moral Challenges in Loving the Unlovable
… us from others, distort our basic capacities for human connection, turn us into morally worse people. This dissertation is about the morally dark side of love. Chapter One is about how love itself can alienate lovers from one another. This occurs in everyday life when people receive love in ways …
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Exploring the importance, meaning and experience of hope for adult patients with advanced cancer and their family caregivers in KwaZulu-Natal
… revealed a strong correlation with spirituality, human connection and support, and physical and psychological comfort. Hope was also associated with psychological fortitude, having a goal and purpose, and living well while being ready to die. The study demonstrated the tension of oscillating …
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The Self-Conscious Ensemble in Selected Twentieth-Century Vocal Works
… to this period's intense interest in issues of human connection, such as overcoming entrenched systems of power by building on the common brotherhood of man. By exploring new avenues of language, sound, and gesture, the ensemble enacts the exploration that composers--and others--believed to be …
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Fostering a capacity for connectedness: The contribution of “humanness” in hybrid early childhood initial teacher education programmes
This thesis provides an in-depth understanding of human connections between lecturers and ECE student teachers in one hybrid early childhood initial teacher education programme in Aotearoa New Zealand. More specifically, the focus of the research is the ECE student teachers’ perspective of their …
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Earthbound: Celebrating the Natural World Enjoying Good Food and Company
… of eating and drinking while fostering a connection to the natural world. <br /> <br /> I have long held an interest in the human connection to nature, which was fostered by both my parents and oldest brother. As a child I was encouraged to observe wildlife and to read about the natural …
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Single Camera Motion Compensated Viewpoint Shift
Eye contact is a necessary tool for human connection and in most video conferencing situations, eye contact is not possible. Standard laptop and webcam configurations position the camera at the top of the screen, meaning that when the user looks at other people’s faces in the center of the screen, …
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"We must love on another or die": The Ethic of Empathy in the AIDS Plays of Kramer, Vogel and Tucker Green
… once the subjects of AIDS finally receive the human connection they so long for and deserve, but that remains only a potential future, not an actualized one. As Didier Eribon says, "life is haunted by those whom the disease took away" (310). One cannot begin the process of mourning or …
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Enchufad@s : representations of the internet and new technologies in queer Latin American literature
… explores themes of identity, desire, and connection as represented in three literary texts authored in Spanish during the first decade of the 2000s. The literature in question -- novels No quiero quedarme sola y vacía (2000) by Ángel Lozada and Keres cojer? = Guan tu fak (2005) by …
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The Impact of a Global Pandemic on Teaching: A Narrative of Two Veteran Middle School Teachers in Hawaiʻi
… teachers: school level trainings and continued human connection.
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Does Money Indeed Buy Happiness? “The Forms of Capital” in Fitzgerald’s Gatsby and Watts’ No One is Coming to Save Us
… through the hard-earned persistence of human connection. Ultimately, as Gatsby fails to repeat the past, Watts succeeds in rewriting it.</p>
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Calamity Sample: Stories About The Weatherman
… joy from the ordinary, due to his residence in Humansville, an obscure town where every day is a recognized-and-hyper specific holiday or celebration. This collection of vignettes, generally oriented around annual holidays & our protagonist’s obsession with the mundane amidst apocalypse, …
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Waste / Mine: Re Interpreting mans' connection to the landscape through the conservation of a tin mine on Devils Peak
… its individual parts, method of assembly and human labour. Embedded within the artefact too are energies- human and mechanical- which are impossible to observe in the finished artefact. Through being able to unveil the various methods and steps of this process made richer my knowledge of the …
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Revolutions of the heart : cultivating love as a means for personal & collective transformation
… we have recognized the need for and power of human connection. I begin with a discussion of the manifestations of our disconnection through the particular example of my home, Oakland, California. I outline how our disconnection has affected us in terms of disparate geographic, economic, …
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Dorothy Wordsworth's Distinctive Voice
… domesticity; the idea of home and her community connections influenced how she engaged with and then recorded the environments she traveled to and the people she met. My project concludes by demonstrating how Dorothy Wordsworth's environmental ethos relates to the values promoted by modern …
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Thriller, Horror, Hacker, Spy: The Hacker Genre in Film and Television from the 1970s to the 2010s
… figure’ in these films, using the viewer’s human connection to consider how this technology affects the user over time; considering the links to the thriller and horror traditions, this study considers the potential for the hacker to become dehumanised in using this technology.
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