Analysis on Children Enthusiasm toward Storytelling Activities in Rumah Baca Harapan Bulukumba

This research discussed about children enthusiasm which aimed to describe children enthusiasm and to find out the levels of enthusiasm in storytelling that has the most frequent occurance made by Children in Rumah Baca Harapan Bulukumba. This enthusiasm awareness. The researcher used descriptive qualitative method in revelaing the data. The researcher applied observation sheet as the instrument to get the valid data. The researcher applied that the children expressed three levels of enthusiasm, they were, low, medium, and high enthusiasm. The researcher concluded that the children have high enthusiasm toward storytelling activities in Rumah Baca Harapan Bulukumb

Presence 2005: the eighth annual international workshop on presence, 21-23 September, 2005 University College London (Conference proceedings)

OVERVIEW (taken from the CALL FOR PAPERS) Academics and practitioners with an interest in the concept of (tele)presence are invited to submit their work for presentation at PRESENCE 2005 at University College London in London, England, September 21-23, 2005. The eighth in a series of highly successful international workshops, PRESENCE 2005 will provide an open discussion forum to share ideas regarding concepts and theories, measurement techniques, technology, and applications related to presence, the psychological state or subjective perception in which a person fails to accurately and completely acknowledge the role of technology in an experience, including the sense of 'being there' experienced by users of advanced media such as virtual reality. The concept of presence in virtual environments has been around for at least 15 years, and the earlier idea of telepresence at least since Minsky's seminal paper in 1980. Recently there has been a burst of funded research activity in this area for the first time with the European FET Presence Research initiative. What do we really know about presence and its determinants? How can presence be successfully delivered with today's technology? This conference invites papers that are based on empirical results from studies of presence and related issues and/or which contribute to the technology for the delivery of presence. Papers that make substantial advances in theoretical understanding of presence are also welcome. The interest is not solely in virtual environments but in mixed reality environments. Submissions will be reviewed more rigorously than in previous conferences. High quality papers are therefore sought which make substantial contributions to the field. Approximately 20 papers will be selected for two successive special issues for the journal Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments. PRESENCE 2005 takes place in London and is hosted by University College London. The conference is organized by ISPR, the International Society for Presence Research and is supported by the European Commission's FET Presence Research Initiative through the Presencia and IST OMNIPRES projects and by University College London

Affective Computing

This book provides an overview of state of the art research in Affective Computing. It presents new ideas, original results and practical experiences in this increasingly important research field. The book consists of 23 chapters categorized into four sections. Since one of the most important means of human communication is facial expression, the first section of this book (Chapters 1 to 7) presents a research on synthesis and recognition of facial expressions. Given that we not only use the face but also body movements to express ourselves, in the second section (Chapters 8 to 11) we present a research on perception and generation of emotional expressions by using full-body motions. The third section of the book (Chapters 12 to 16) presents computational models on emotion, as well as findings from neuroscience research. In the last section of the book (Chapters 17 to 22) we present applications related to affective computing

Communicating Indirect Feelings: American Stories of Indirect Experiences

The words people use to describe indirect human experiences and how narratives play a role are examined within qualitative research. The problem is that some people have difficulty communicating indirect experiences, and few studies have examined the issue. The purpose of this qualitative narrative research study was to examine how people who encountered indirect communication in their lived experiences can communicate the indirect experiences and messages they received. The theory guiding this study is the indirect communication theory as it relates to Communicating Indirect Feelings (CIF). The definition of CIF is how people attempt to communicate indirect feelings for shared meaning with others. The research questions explored how people who have experienced indirect experiences engage with storytelling attempts, whether or not the storyteller felt as though shared meaning occurred when indirect experiences were described through storytelling, and a metacognitive exploration of what the storyteller felt they were able to adequately communicate about their indirect experience. The results indicated people can communicate indirect experiences. Future research ideas include participant reactions, trust, and intentionality

Development and Evaluation of an Emotional Competence Training for Teacher Trainees

This dissertation provides an overview on the research topic of emotional competence (EC) and a proposal for a training structure for an emotional competence training of pre-service teachers. It includes four studies. The theoretical introduction comprises definitions of EC and its sub-dimensions as well as related literature. The teacher-student-relationship will be discussed as a potential mediating factor of the association between teacher emotion regulation and teacher emotions. Studies one and two research into this association in the field with teachers as study subjects as well as in the laboratory with a student sample. Studies three and four evaluate the training of EC in controlled longitudinal study designs. Implications and future perspectives regarding training schedule and content, relevant emotions, and suitable emotion regulation strategies are discussed