66 research outputs found
Bonding Over Distances: Building Social Presence Using Mixed Reality for Transnational Families
Sparked by the frustrations experienced in transnational family communication and inspired by an interest in exploring the potentials of a mixed reality (MR) future landscape, this study investigates the primary research question: how can we use mixed reality to build social presence for transnational family communication?
This study reviews literature and contextual works from relevant fields, including presence and social presence, mixed reality, transnational relationships (inter-family and human-space relationships), and technology for social presence for transnational families. Then, the researcher situates this study at the intersection of the before mentioned categories.
Utilizing the Research through Design methodology and paired user testing methods, this study describes 4 iterative MR prototypes for building social presence for transnational families, highlighting each prototype’s relation to a secondary research question, exploration goals, features, performance evaluation, and takeaways for the next iteration. Then, it documents and analyzes data collected from in-depth user testing sessions with 6 transnational family pairs totaling 12 participants, each with one member living locally (in Toronto), and the other overseas. The quantitative and qualitative data were collected from different components of the user testing, including observation notes from paired-up live connection sessions for collaborative tasks, interviews, and online surveys.
This study contributes to theory at the overlapping fields of social presence, mixed reality research, transnational family relationship, and human-space relationship. The mixed reality prototypes, design frameworks, and evaluation criteria for designing mixed reality spaces to build social presence for transnational families also provide significance to design practice
The Art of Adaptation in Film and Video Games
This Special Issue of Arts explores the art and practice of adaptation in several different mediums with a focus on film and video games. The topics covered include experimental game design, narrative design, film and trauma, games adapted from literature, video game cinema, film and the pandemic, film and the environment, film and immigration, and film and culture
大加勒比地区的中国印象: 昨天与今日
Con autorización de la editorial para este libro. Coordinación del libro a cargo de Mu-Kien Adriana Sang Ben.La versión en español de este libro puede encontrarse en el siguiente enlace: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/263728Connected Worlds: The Caribbean, Origin of Modern World. European Union´s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska Curie grant agreement Nº 823846.Peer reviewe
On the Behavioural Profiling of Gamblers using Cryptocurrency Transaction Data
Blockchain technologies enable a number of new ways to gamble online. Very little is known about engagement with one such new way of gambling: decentralised gambling applications, which provide simple casino games like dice rolls and coin flips. This is important as understanding engagement with any type of gambling is a crucial first step to assessing the risk of experiencing gambling related harm within the population. This thesis first surveys existing literature for methods of describing engagement in gambling, and then applies these methods to actual transaction data gathered from several decentralised gambling applications. This replication-oriented approach means results can be grounded against existing findings, and the descriptions of player engagement in this new domain have some context for comparison. It also means that descriptions can be tentatively mapped to similar scenarios, such as risk of experiencing gambling related harm in other studies. The results of several replication oriented studies presented herein find that engagement in the decentralised gambling domain is typically less than in comparable online casino games, but that a heavily involved subgroup is more involved. It also finds that engagement with gambling- like mechanisms in blockchain games is much less than in decentralised gambling applications, guiding future studies in gambling research away from blockchain games despite their mechanical similarities. Finally, behavioural groups in the decentralised gambling domain do not appear to be comparable with existing research in the centralised online casino game domain. The results of these studies provide a first look at engagement in this emerging domain, a comparative description with similar forms of gambling, and a description of behavioural groups, which provides essential context for further research to asses the scale of the risk of experiencing gambling related harm
The nation form in the global age: Ethnographic perspectives
This open access book argues that contrary to dominant approaches that view nationalism as unaffected by globalization or globalization undermining the nation-state, the contemporary world is actually marked by globalization of the nation form. Based on fieldwork in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East and drawing, among others, on Peter van der Veer’s comparative work on religion and nation, it discuss practices of nationalism vis-a-vis migration, rituals of sacrifice and prayer, music, media, e-commerce, Islamophobia, bare life, secularism, literature and atheism. The volume offers new understandings of nationalism in a broader perspective
The nation form in the global age: Ethnographic perspectives
These incisive essays explore nationalist violence and ethno-religious purification in Europe, South Africa, the Middle East, India, and China. Readers will encounter the extreme precarity of Islamic minorities and migrants, as well as inspiring explorations of alternative imaginaries beyond the nation form. Kenneth Dean, Professor, National University of Singapore. This excellent edited volume is a tribute to a major anthropologist of our times that combines approaches based on comparison with an analytic attention to circulation, thus showing us that the nation-form dominates our world because of its viral capacity to find hosts in highly variable cultural, religious and political contexts, which it then pushes in the direction of xenophobia, exclusion and populism. Arjun Appadurai, Max Weber Global Professor, Bard Graduate Center, New York, USA This collection of global ethnographies makes evident that the global expansion of the nation is as intrinsic to processes of globalization as the global expansion of capitalist markets. It also shows that in our global age religion and its binary secular remain inextricably intertwined with both dynamics of globalization. José Casanova, Emeritus Professor, Georgetown University, USA This open access book argues that contrary to dominant approaches that view nationalism as unaffected by globalization or globalization undermining the nation-state, the contemporary world is actually marked by globalization of the nation form. Based on fieldwork in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East and drawing, among others, on Peter van der Veer’s comparative work on religion and nation, it discuss practices of nationalism visa-a-vis migration, rituals of sacrifice and prayer, music, media, e-commerce, Islamophobia, bare life, secularism, literature and atheism. The volume offers new understandings of nationalism in a broader perspective. Irfan Ahmad is Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany. Jie Kang is Research Fellow and Project Coordinator at Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany
The Nation Form in the Global Age
This open access book argues that contrary to dominant approaches that view nationalism as unaffected by globalization or globalization undermining the nation-state, the contemporary world is actually marked by globalization of the nation form. Based on fieldwork in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East and drawing, among others, on Peter van der Veer’s comparative work on religion and nation, it discuss practices of nationalism vis-a-vis migration, rituals of sacrifice and prayer, music, media, e-commerce, Islamophobia, bare life, secularism, literature and atheism. The volume offers new understandings of nationalism in a broader perspective. The text will appeal to students and researchers interested in nationalism outside of the West, especially those working in anthropology, sociology and history
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