Inculcating Values Through Entertainment: A Study Based on Sinhala Children’s Songs

Children’s songs have an impact, on the wellbeing, personality development, communication skills and cognitive growth of preschool and elementary school children. They teach values, character education and positive behavior through creativity. This study aims to explore how Sinhala children’s songs can be used as a medium to instill values. A purposive sampling method was used to select twelve songs for analysis. Each song underwent an examination to identify phrases and ideas related to ten fundamental values using discourse analysis. Through qualitative approach, the research focused on uncovering values embedded in the lyrics. The importance of these values was assessed based on their presence and influence on the theme and narrative. Application of Schwartz’s Theory of Basic Human Values revealed a range of values within the selected songs that reflect experiences and perspectives influenced by cultural norms, family dynamics and societal expectations. The songs highlight concepts such as thoughtfulness, empathy, respect, education, tradition, relationships, personal growth, ethical reflection and cultural values such as benevolence and harmony with nature. Among this identified values benevolence emerges as the main theme in the songs symbolizing nurturing love and support. Conversely, power appears to be the least emphasized value in these songs, suggesting that they place an importance on relationships, empathy, personal growth and kindness. In a nut- shell, it is crystal clear that children's songs have the ability to impart values in children, aiding the overall development of a child's character. DOI: http://doi.org/10.31357/fhss/vjhss.v09i01.0

Song, Poetry and Images in Writing: Sami Literature

The article is an overview of Sami literature, past and present, with a specific emphasis on the connection between tradition and innovation, in which literature is regarded in a broader sense than only limited to the written word. Thus the relationship between the traditional epic yoik songs and contemporary poetry is being dealt with, as is the multimedia approach that several Sami artists have chosen for their creative expression. It is almost more the rule than an exemption that Sami artists express themselves through the use of more than only one medium. Through the introduction to Sami literature, the reader also gets acquainted with the history and the culture of the Sami, who are the indigenous people of the northern regions of Scandinavia, Finland and the Kola peninsula in Russia

Exploring the factors that influence trust in voice assistants in the DACH Region

Voice assistants (VAs) have gained popularity in recent years due to advances in artificial intelli gence, natural language processing, and the internet of things. Despite their potential to revolu tionize human-technology interactions, the adoption of VAs has been limited by concerns about privacy and trust. To better understand how to address these barriers, this study aims to identify the factors influencing trust in VAs and explore ways to improve trust. Four hypotheses were formulated based on existing literature and user interviews: H1, brand trust has a positive impact on overall trust in VAs; H2, hedonic value perception has a positive effect on general trust in VAs; H2a, hedonic value perception has a more significant impact on general trust in VAs than utilitar ian value perception; and H3, older adults have more trust in VAs compared to other age groups. A survey of participants from the DACH region was conducted and analyzed, confirming H1, H2, and H3 but negating H2a. These findings highlight the importance of brand trust and hedonic value perception in building trust in VAs and suggest that older adults may be more trusting of the technology.Os assistentes de voz (VAs) ganharam popularidade nos últimos anos devido aos avanços na inteligência artificial, no processamento da linguagem natural, e na Internet das coisas. Apesar do seu potencial para revogar as interacções humano-tecnologia, a adopção de assistentes de voz tem sido limitada por preocupações sobre privacidade e confiança. Para melhor compreender como abordar estas barreiras, este estudo visa identificar os factores que influenciam a confiança nos VAs e explorar formas de melhorar a confiança. Quatro hipóteses foram formuladas com base na literatura existente e em entrevistas a utilizadores: H1, a confiança na marca tem um impacto positivo na confiança global em VAs; H2, a percepção do valor hedónico tem um impacto positivo na confiança geral em VAs; H2a, a percepção do valor hedónico tem um impacto maior na confiança geral em VAs do que a percepção do valor utilitário; e H3, os adultos mais velhos têm mais confiança em VAs em comparação com outros grupos etários. Foi realizado e analisado um inquérito aos participantes da região DACH, confirmando H1, H2, e H3, mas negando H2a. Estes resultados salientam a importância da confiança na marca e da percepção do valor hedónico na construção da confiança em VAs e sugerem que os adultos mais velhos podem ter mais confiança na tecnologia

Nota Bene, March 21, 2005

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Museum of Contemporary Commodities: a research performance

The materialities and injustices of the 'prolific present' are overwhelming, making attention to the production, consumption and disposal of 'stuff' an urgent matter of concern. Presenting as automatic and only partially visible, creatively constructive acts of ‘dataveillance’ are integral to this explosion of stuff; conditioning our daily lives as milieus of consumption that channel profit to the propertied classes, often with socially and environmentally damaging consequences (Gabrys 2016, van Dijck, 2014, Tsing, 2013). Constructing the agency to intervene in these socio-technical valuing practices and cultural performances, requires us to consider our roles in those performances, as much as theorising the constituting structures, strategies, and (in)justices of their production. The Museum of Contemporary Commodities is an art geography research performance that is both a collaboratively produced dramaturgy of valuing, and an experiment in public curation as transformative process (Heathfield 2016, Graeber, 2013, Richter 2017). The project manifests as a series of digitally networked hacks, prototypes and events that attempt to configure new alignments between the social, material and digital that are localised and mobile, stable and reconfigurable, familiar and new (Suchman et al., 2002). These are art geographies as collectively produced critical making and social practices, which encourage audience-as-participant move from 'automatic' taking part in the unfolding immanence of the world, to feeling it more deeply. By extension attending to and caring for the ethical and political implications, and the material things that participation produces (Cull, 2011, Puig de la Bellacasa 2012)

Directing playfully: Towards an understanding of the practical knowledge involved in leading multi-family groups for adults with severe eating disorders

Masteroppgave i praktisk kunnskap - Universitetet i Nordland, 201

Staying with the Trouble through Design: Critical-feminist Design of Intimate Technology

This dissertation explores staying with the trouble through design as a design theory of intimacy and intimate technology. To research and design with the subject of intimacy is to trouble and to ask for trouble, and by staying with the trouble of intimacy, to paraphrase Donna Haraway, I articulate and perform a way of designing not as a way out of trouble, but as a way of making trouble and staying with the trouble. I argue that by staying with the trouble, designers may learn to be “truly present” and respond to social, cultural and political issues of intimate technology.The methodology interweaves design research, feminist technoscience, critical theory and software studies into a critical-feminist design methodology. As a response to design and designing intimate technology I have engaged in Donna Haraway’s “Staying with the Trouble” (Donna J. Haraway 2016) and solutionism as a critique of technology development, as well as feminist theories on fantasies of “the good life” and gender and technology, and critical theories on the role of intimacy in digital culture.Within the field of interaction design research, this dissertation’s contribution can be divided into three parts: 1) an exploration of the role of intimate technologies in our everyday lives and ways of being, 2) a critical and feminist design methodology of staying with the trouble through design, and 3) design proposals that stay with the trouble of designing with intimacy.My design research has evolved through four design projects that interweave different intimate topics and technologies through varied design practices: 1. PeriodShare: an internet-connected menstrual cup. 2. Marcelle: a wearable sex toy reacting on wifi-activity. 3. Ingrid: a woman living with electromagnetic hypersensitivity. And 4. Intimate Futures: two digital personal assistants where one is pushing back on sexual harassment and the other is assisting with hormone level tracking.The main contribution of the dissertation is the design methodology staying with the trouble through design, which is an anti-solutionist approach to design that interweaves the situated, personal and political role of design. By responding to/with trouble, rather than designing solutions to problems, staying with the trouble through design aims to better understand the conflicts and responsibilities involved in complex social, cultural and political issues, in order to imagine and design still possible futures. The design methodology interweaves three practices that unfold the self-reflective, ethnographic and collaborative process of staying with the trouble through design. The first practice, the willful practice of Staying with the Wrong, is a continuous process of becoming a feminist designer and it includes actively learning to be present; question the given as given, stay with the feelings you wish would go away, continuously practice self-reflection on own positionality and using feminist humour when designing with taboos. The second practice, Curious Visiting, encourages the designer to go beyond their own positionality, by listening to stories of pleasure and pain and visiting ongoing pasts and alternatives nows. This challenges the designer’s notion of the present by interweaving fact and fiction, and it highlights that this practice is never innocent but involves risks. Lastly, the third practice Collective Imagining highlights how design by proposing future change can respond to and/or with trouble and how we collectively can engage with futures to rewrite collective imaginings and tell other possible stories within and across social and cultural contexts. Together, these three interwoven practices propose a way of staying with the trouble through design, as a feminist contribution to current critical approaches within interaction design.

Myth and Symbol II: Symbolic phenomena in Ancient Greek culture.

Papers from the second and third international symposia on symbolism at The Norwegian institute at Athens, September 21-24, 2000 and September 19-22,200