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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"personal context"”.
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Mediating chance encounters through opportunistic social matching
… chance encounters and how systems could utilize contextual data to mediate chance encounters. This dissertation addresses this gap in research literature by exploring the design space of opportunistic social matching systems that aim to introduce relevant people to each other in the opportune …
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Buddhist imagery in the work of Paul Gauguin: the impact of primitivism, theology and cultural studies
… takes a deeper look at Gauguin and examines the personal context in which his works were created. This will show Gauguin's immense suffering and unhappiness as a result of separation from family, financial and health struggles. The personal context of the artists' life, I argue, influenced the …
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On the Conceptual Status of Justice
… Rawls, understand this narrowness in terms of context specificity. On their view, justice is the part of morality that applies to the context of a society’s institutions, but only has indirect application to the context of citizens’ personal lives (unlike the rest of morality). In contrast, …
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Passport stamps: traveling through memory and place
… this collection is focused on the impact of the context of time on place. How does the context of someone’s personal growth affect how they see and experience a place, and what stories become unlocked at certain spaces in certain moments. Some sites included are well known to tourists, but with …
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How a Museum Exhibit Functions as a Literacy Event for Viewers
… questions designed to aid their recall. The Contextual Model of Learning (Falk & Dierking, 2000) was used for describing the phenomenon and for the analyses of the data. The Contextual Model of Learning describes museum learning as the interaction of three spheres: the Physical Context, the …
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BIG-THICK DATA GENERATION VIA LIFE SEQUENCES
The large-scale personal big data is collected at high speeds by smart devices, mainly in the form of sensor data. While this extensive type of data allows for the analysis and inference about the environment where it was collected (e.g., locations) and certain aspects of human behavior (e.g., …
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An enriched Web services client architecture for management and sharing of context
… it is also difficult to find items according to personal interests. Nowadays, a website is more like an island. In order to find useful information, you need to jump from one page to another page through the links. A web based system for managing context would give users the ability to manage …
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Look Who's Talking : mechanisms for sharing interpersonal context and social titles as awareness information
Mobile awareness systems aim to convey personal context information between people in a way that is less intrusive, somewhat automatic, and often much more persistent than a phone call. Although there are many ways in which awareness information can be useful, the privacy of the individual can …
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Human-Machine Alignment for Context Recognition in the Wild
The premise for AI systems like personal assistants to provide guidance and suggestions to an end-user is to understand, at any moment in time, the personal context that the user is in. The context – where the user is, what she is doing and with whom – allows the machine to represent the world in …
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Rivers of doing, becoming, being, belonging: exploring occupational therapist identity
… occupation, and ‘knowing how to play the game’. Contextual factors included personal context, institutional context, relationships with clients, relationships with occupational therapists, relationships with teams, and relationships with managers. Participants also reported three major barriers: …
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Identity Negotiation of Young Arab Muslim Women Attending College in the United States and France
… negotiate their identity vis-à-vis multiple contexts of citizenship in secular state, gender, religion, culture, and race. Sixteen interviews were conducted, eight in Paris and eight in Chicago. Using the theoretical frameworks of social identity, cultural studies, and critical race feminism, …
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Museums for all: towards engaging, memorable museum experiences through inclusive audio description
… the importance of thoughts, feelings and personal context in museum memories and demonstrating an autobiographical memory coding model. Study 3 investigates the impact of AD on the experience, engagement and memorability of sighted participants, with AD resulting in richer memories …
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Museums for all: towards engaging, memorable museum experiences through inclusive audio description
… the importance of thoughts, feelings and personal context in museum memories and demonstrating an autobiographical memory coding model. Study 3 investigates the impact of AD on the experience, engagement and memorability of sighted participants, with AD resulting in richer memories …
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Are cognitive and social factors sufficient to explain the acceptance of decision aiding processes within organisations?
… this in an organisational, rather than personal, context. This led to the thesis having a theory-building bias as it was not clear at the outset what a decision aid in an organisation consists of, what the main influences on acceptance would be, nor how to conduct such an enquiry. The …
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An ecofeminist creation : how Poor Things rewrites and re-animates Frankenstein
… ethical questions integral to Shelley's text and personal context; Poor Things continues the legacy of her work by reimagining and recycling these myths to show their perennial value. Much like Victor Frankenstein, Gray has manipulated a variety of disparate parts and given them new life within …
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“Down Your Drink” (DYD): a digital intervention to reduce harmful drinking
… DYD’s development was determined by overlapping contexts. Research funding through health and university bodies required adherence to a scientific framework. Public services set goals for the reduction of harms, equity of access and the efficient use of resources. The personal context included …
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Professional development of ICT integration for secondary school teachers in Hong Kong: Towards a peer support enhanced model
… who then applied these principles in their own contexts. Data on participants' reflections and evaluations of the peer support process was collected through individual interviews and peer-group conferences. Each participant was interviewed at the beginning, middle and end of the research period …
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Socially constructing healthy eating: a Foucauldian discourse analysis of healthy eating information and advice
… readers in relation to moral citizenship and personal responsibility. Through the use of bio-power, foods within the texts appeared to be categorised as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ foods in which bad foods were considered to be risky to health due to their nutritional composition. Most of the texts …
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When Apsaras smile: women and development in Cambodia 1990-2000, cultural barriers to change
… chapters provide the historical and cultural context for understanding the fate of WID/GAD policies introduced in the 1990s. Chapters Four and Five provide the personal context for the thesis, focussing on my role as a researcher and the sense I have made of Cambodian women's understanding of …
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Defining preparation and preparedness for nursing study abroad trips.
… undertaking study abroad trips. The researcher's personal context that initiated this project is representative of the findings of the literature - namely that students often feel unprepared during study abroad trips. Evidence-based preparation for study abroad trips is absent in the literature, …
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