Proceedings of the International Workshop “Re-Thinking Technology in Museums: towards a new understanding of people’s experience in museums"

Proceedings of the International Workshop “Re-Thinking Technology in Museums: towards a new understanding of people’s experience in museums

Puppetry in Museum Interpretation and Communication

Although there is a growing practice of puppetry in education, there has been no academic research to date on the range of puppet theatre styles and techniques in the museum context. This interdisciplinary thesis seeks to investigate what I call ‘museum puppetry’, e.g. puppetry used for pedagogical purposes in museum studies’ with a focus on the exchanges, compromises and tensions among museum staff and puppet theatre practitioners. Although the research is conducted mainly from the puppeteers’ perspective, the voice of museum experts is also present throughout. The thesis examines puppetry’s theoretical and practical frames for creation and how these can be used to conceptualize the applied form of this marginalized medium in the contentious territory of museums today. It also investigates what benefits, challenges and limitations are faced by the two distinct communities of practice (puppeteers and museum staff) in the pre- and post-production of museum puppetry projects. This multiple case-study, qualitative research examines the current work of practitioners who present and perform in museums, mainly in the United Kingdom, United States, Greece and Israel. The data analysis, based on interviews and field work, also aims to investigate the projects’ preproduction processes. Furthermore, it explores the negotiations between puppeteers and museum staff around the visual and performance aspects of museum puppetry projects from a technical and aesthetic point of view (construction, narrative, manipulation techniques). The research also suggests that although museum puppetry is currently a marginalized museum practice, its distinct sign system renders it rich in meaningful and soulfull associations, strongly visitor-oriented and remarkably flexible. Commissioning long term museum puppetry projects remains —with a few exceptions— a missed opportunity, due to prejudices and low expectations. Overall, the thesis reclaims the pedagogical, aesthetic value of puppets as ultimate metaphors. It advocates the holistic, eco-friendly aspect of the practice and favours the empathy and thought-provoking gaps it traces. Finally, it attempts to balance constructive, unpredictable learning with significance and fun

Practical, appropriate, empirically-validated guidelines for designing educational games

There has recently been a great deal of interest in the potential of computer games to function as innovative educational tools. However, there is very little evidence of games fulfilling that potential. Indeed, the process of merging the disparate goals of education and games design appears problematic, and there are currently no practical guidelines for how to do so in a coherent manner. In this paper, we describe the successful, empirically validated teaching methods developed by behavioural psychologists and point out how they are uniquely suited to take advantage of the benefits that games offer to education. We conclude by proposing some practical steps for designing educational games, based on the techniques of Applied Behaviour Analysis. It is intended that this paper can both focus educational games designers on the features of games that are genuinely useful for education, and also introduce a successful form of teaching that this audience may not yet be familiar with

ETIKA ORANG JAWA MENURUT SERAT SUBASITA DALAM PERSPEKTIF PENDIDIKAN ISLAM

Penelitian ini memiliki rumusan masalah yang menjadi fokus dalam penelitian: (1) Bagaimana konsep etika orang Jawa menurut Serat Subasita dalam perspektif pendidikan Islam? (2) Bagaimana kontekstualisasi etika dalam Serat Subasita di era modern?; Kemudian penelitian ini bertujuan untuk: (1) Menggali konsep etika orang Jawa menurut Serat Subasita dalam perspektif pendidikan Islam. (2) Mendeskripsikan kontekstualisasi etika dalam Serat Subasita di era modern. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian kualitatif dan jenis penelitian yang digunakan library research atau kajian kepustakaan. Sumber objek yang di teliti, yakni Serat Subasita. Teknik pengumpulan data menggunakan metode dokumentasi. Pemeriksaan validitas data menggunakan teknik triangulasi dan ketekunan pengamatan, serta pengecekan sejawat. Pengkajian makna etika orang Jawa dalam Serat Subasita dianalisis menggunakan teknik content anlysis, yang menjadi alat analisis yaitu pendidikan Islam. Berdasarkan hasil dari penelitian dapat disimpulkan bahwa: (1) Ada konsep ajaran etika orang Jawa dalam Serat Subasita yang sesuai dengan konsep ajaran dalam pendidikan Islam ialah: etika Jawa dalam merawat diri, etika Jawa dalam menjaga panca indra, etika Jawa dalam berpakaian, etika Jawa dalam bertamu dan menerima tamu, etika Jawa dalam makan dan minum, serta etika Jawa dalam berinteraksi sosial. (2) Kontekstualisasi etika orang Jawa dalam Serat Subasita di era modern: Etika dalam Serat Subasita ada yang relevan dan ada yang tidak relevan dengan situasi dan kondisi pada era modern, akan tetapi masih banyak yang relevan. Hal itu disebabkan karena etika dalam Serat Subasita memiliki fungsional khusus yang intinya yaitu saling hormat menghormati sesuai kedudukan mobilitas sosial. Kemudian di era modern etika tersebut hanya berlaku dalam lingkungan tertentu yang menjadi struktural saja. Seperti halnya di dalam lingkungan Kraton dan pemerintahan atau di lingkungan masyarakat Jawa dalam acara-acara sakral atau tradisi budaya saja. Hal itu bertujuan untuk menjaga dan melestarikan tradisi budaya Jawa, agar budaya Jawa khususnya nilai-nilai kearifan lokal tidak punah

Human Computer Interaction and Emerging Technologies

The INTERACT Conferences are an important platform for researchers and practitioners in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI) to showcase their work. They are organised biennially by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Technical Committee on Human–Computer Interaction (IFIP TC13), an international committee of 30 member national societies and nine Working Groups. INTERACT is truly international in its spirit and has attracted researchers from several countries and cultures. With an emphasis on inclusiveness, it works to lower the barriers that prevent people in developing countries from participating in conferences. As a multidisciplinary field, HCI requires interaction and discussion among diverse people with different interests and backgrounds. The 17th IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT 2019) took place during 2-6 September 2019 in Paphos, Cyprus. The conference was held at the Coral Beach Hotel Resort, and was co-sponsored by the Cyprus University of Technology and Tallinn University, in cooperation with ACM and ACM SIGCHI. This volume contains the Adjunct Proceedings to the 17th INTERACT Conference, comprising a series of selected papers from workshops, the Student Design Consortium and the Doctoral Consortium. The volume follows the INTERACT conference tradition of submitting adjunct papers after the main publication deadline, to be published by a University Press with a connection to the conference itself. In this case, both the Adjunct Proceedings Chair of the conference, Dr Usashi Chatterjee, and the lead Editor of this volume, Dr Fernando Loizides, work at Cardiff University which is the home of Cardiff University Press

Strung Together: A Practical Exploration of Music-Cultural Hybridity, Interaction, and Collaboration

Strung Together is a collaborative performance project commissioned in September 2017 by Diaspora Arts Connection in San Francisco, US. Drawing from models of cultural integration and collaborative creativity, this research project enabled the development of a practical methodology through which the improvisatory approaches of non-congruent music-cultures might be combined to create a programme of original, eclectic works, within a limited time frame. Considering the subtle boundaries which lie between coexistence, assimilation, and synthesis within intercultural collaborations, Strung Together explored how different initial musical stimuli might alter the balance, whilst maintaining contextually-relative improvisatory freedom/s; and optimising productivity. Here the blending of three improvisation-based music traditions was investigated – Persian Classical, Arabic traditional and Western contemporary – through a process comprising: continual dialogue; collective composition; coalesced methods of improvisation; rearrangement and refinement; rehearsals; and live performance. Acting as musical director/performer, I sourced four professional musicians from the San Francisco Bay area – each expert in different traditions of improvisatory music(s) – to form a quintet; and was ultimately responsible for the project’s curation and delivery. I provided various pre-composed musical stimuli, Fragment(s), each of which incorporated influences from the performers’ respective music traditions and served as initial platforms for the development of the final pieces. We gathered together daily for one week, and during this time collectively developed, arranged, and rehearsed a complete performance programme of new, hybrid music. A live performance took place on the final day at the renowned Buriel Clay Theatre, which was streamed live via social media, reaching a worldwide audience. This presentation will reflect on the creative practice behind Strung Together, demonstrating that by inaugurating a democratic environment, where manifold approaches to music-making are considered and respected at a structural level, music-cultural hybridity is achievable within a limited time frame

Supporting early literacy through attachment-based parenting: An intervention project

A Four-month intervention project consisting of regular parent training meetings and weekly take-home parent-child interactive literacy activities was implemented to examine the association between quality of mother-child interaction and preschoolers\u27 early literacy development for five families enrolled in a state subsidized preschool program. The Palm Vista Family Home Literacy Program located in the high desert region of San Bernardino County was offered free of charge to all parents and their preschool aged children who were enrolled

Community-based rehabilitation for people with disabilities in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review

Review question: We reviewed the evidence about the impact of community-based rehabilitation on the lives of people with disabilities and their carers in low- and middle-income countries. Background: People with disabilities include those who have long-term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments, which in interaction with various barriers may hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others. There are estimated to be over one billion people with disabilities globally and 80% of them live in low- and middle-income countries. They are often excluded from education, health, and employment and other aspects of society leading to an increased risk of poverty. Community-based rehabilitation interventions are the strategy endorsed by the World Health Organization and other international organisations (e.g. ILO, IDDC) for addressing the needs of this group of people in low- and middle-income countries. These interventions aim to enhance the quality of life of people with disabilities and their carers, by trying to meet their basic needs and ensuring inclusion and participation using predominantly local resources. These interventions are composed of up to five components: health, education, livelihood, social and empowerment. Currently only few people who need them benefit from these interventions, and so it is important to assess the available evidence to identify how to best implement these programmes. Study characteristics: The evidence in this review is current to July 2012. This review identified 15 studies that assessed the impact of community-based rehabilitation on the lives of people with disabilities and their carers in low- and middle-income countries. The studies included in the review used different types of community-based rehabilitation interventions and targeted different types of physical (stroke, arthritis, chronic 7 The Campbell Collaboration | www.campbellcollaboration.org obstructive pulmonary disease) and mental disabilities (schizophrenia, dementia, intellectual impairment). Key results: Overall, randomised controlled trials suggested a beneficial effect of community-based rehabilitation interventions in the lives of people with physical disabilities (stroke and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). Similar results were found for non-randomised studies for physical disabilities (stroke and arthritis) with the exception of one non-randomised study on stroke showing community-based rehabilitation was less favourable than hospital-based rehabilitation. Overall, randomised controlled trials suggested a modest beneficial effect of community-based rehabilitation interventions for people with mental disabilities (schizophrenia, dementia, intellectual impairment), and for their carers (dementia). Similar results were found for non-randomised studies for mental disabilities (schizophrenia). However, the methodological constraints of many of these studies limit the strength of our results. In order to build stronger evidence, future studies will need to adopt better study designs, will need to focus on broader clients group, and to include economic evaluations