Talking about interaction*

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd Recent research has exposed disagreements over the nature and usefulness of what may (or may not) be Human–Computer Interaction's fundamental phenomenon: ‘interaction’. For some, HCI's theorising about interaction has been deficient, impacting its capacity to inform decisions in design, suggesting the need either to perform first-principles definition work or broader administrative clarification and formalisation of the multitude of formulations of the concepts of interaction and their particular uses. For others, there remain open questions over the continued relevance of certain ‘versions’ of interaction as a useful concept in HCI at all. We pursue a different perspective in this paper, reviewing how HCI treats interaction through examining its ‘conceptual pragmatics’ within HCI's discourse. We argue that articulations of the concepts of interaction can be a site of productive conflict for HCI that for many reasons may resist attempts of formalisation as well as attempts to dispense with them. The main contribution of this paper is in specifying how we might go about talking of interaction and the value of interaction language as promiscuous concepts

Komunikasi Berdasarkan Tradisi (Retorika, Semiotik, Fenomologi, Psikologi Sosial, Sibernetik, Sosio Kultural, Kritis)

Communication is "the process by which one or more individuals, groups, organizations, and communities create and use information about their environment and about other individuals." Communication is verbal and non-verbal. (Dr. Samshia:2017) It has seven communication traditions, including rhetoric, semiotics, phenomenology, cybernetics, social psychology, sociocultural traditions, and critical or artistic communication, either directly or indirectly with society and the environment. I'm talking about interaction. The conclusion of the study is that human beings have complex personalities that manifest in various situations and interactions. In the process of surface (imaging), the outer layer is adapted to the appearanc

Photon-mediated qubit interactions in one-dimensional discrete and continuous models

In this work we study numerically and analytically the interaction of two qubits in a one-dimensionalwaveguide, as mediated by the photons that propagate through the guide. We develop strategies to assert the Markovianity of the problem, the effective qubit-qubit interactions, and their individual and collective spontaneous emission. We prove the existence of collective Lamb shifts that affect the qubit-qubit interactions and the dependency of coherent and incoherent interactions on the qubit separation. We also develop the scattering theory associated with these models and prove single-photon spectroscopy does probe the renormalized resonances of the singleand multiqubit models, in sharp contrast to earlier toy models in which individual and collective Lamb shifts cancel

Spheres of communal participation : placing the state within local modes of interaction in rural Uzbekistan

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Introduction to the special issue on the 50th anniversary of IJHCS

This special issue celebrates the 50th anniversary of the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS), which published its first volume in January 1969. The special issue comprises 15 contributions from a number of experts in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and other areas relevant to IJHCS. These contributions are best characterized as ‘landscape papers’, providing insightful analyses about the evolution (i.e., the past, the present and the future) of research areas relevant to IJHCS. The areas covered in this special issue include: the history and scope of the journal; foundational concerns in HCI; critical discussions about the issues surrounding digital living in a variety of areas, from healthcare and cybersecurity to digital games and art; the making of interactive products and services, as seen through the viewpoints defined by research in psychology of programming, end-user development and participatory design; and, finally, the issues associated with adapting to various novel emerging technologies, including automated systems, online personalisation, human augmentations, mixed reality, and sonic interfaces. In this short essay, we introduce the special issue, reflecting on the nature and evolution of the journal, before providing short outlines of each of the contributions to this special issue

Introduction to the Special Issue on the 50th Anniversary of IJHCS

This special issue celebrates the 50th anniversary of the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS), which published its first volume in January 1969. The special issue comprises 15 contributions from a number of experts in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and other areas relevant to IJHCS. These contributions are best characterized as ‘landscape papers’, providing insightful analyses about the evolution (i.e., the past, the present and the future) of research areas relevant to IJHCS. The areas covered in this special issue include: the history and scope of the journal; foundational concerns in HCI; critical discussions about the issues surrounding digital living in a variety of areas, from healthcare and cybersecurity to digital games and art; the making of interactive products and services, as seen through the viewpoints defined by research in psychology of programming, end-user development and participatory design; and, finally, the issues associated with adapting to various novel emerging technologies, including automated systems, online personalisation, human augmentations, mixed reality, and sonic interfaces. In this short essay, we introduce the special issue, reflecting on the nature and evolution of the journal, before providing short outlines of each of the contributions to this special issue

Case based, learner centered aproach to pharmacotherapy

The incorporation of real problems into health education is seen as an effort to prepare future health professionals to meet the challenging demands of the profession, in particular, the provision of quality patient care. The foundation of this methodology can be traced back to Dewey. The author suggested that students should be presented with real life problems in order to discover the information required to solve them. With the introduction of the Bologna Process in Portugal, the School of Allied Health Sciences of Oporto, saw this opportunity to put in practice Dewey´s axiom. This paper represents a small part in the process of integrating a Case Based, Learner Centered approach to Pharmacotherapy. Since 2008, Pharmacotherapy is no longer taught in a lecture based model. With the implementation of Bologna Process in the Pharmacy Degree, some basic science curricular units maintained their lecture based approach, only to serve as mediators to a more student-centered approach in the applications of knowledge to real life situations. Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy,are good examples of this dichotomy. Normally the students have to attend lectures on pharmacology topics during one week, then in the next week, they will have to collaborative solve a real problem (relating to the previous week Pharmacology topics) during a pre-established time, in the presence of a tutor. The cases are in paper format, and they are adapted or based in real life situations. They are normally ill-defined so that the students can discover what course of action to pursue. For all cases there are some orientations that are provided by the tutor, that are previously constructed under Bloom’s Taxonomy. The tutor himself, must have certain characteristics that permit him/her to be in this situation. Normally for tutor selection we endorse that besides the pedagogical background, he/she has an active role in professional activities outside the School. The class is divided in casestudy groups of about 4 students. Normally there are 4 groups in each class. At the end of the case study, each case-study group is interviewed by the tutor. Evaluation and assessment is divided in case study grading, mini-test grading and examination grading. Results show that gradings tend to increase from second year to the third year in the bachelor degree, despite the raised level of complexity, which can demonstrate that a student centered approach is a favorable mean to promote reflexive thinking and develop complex epistemic beliefs

Analysis of Questions Used by English Teacher at Jakarta Intensive Learning Centre (JILC)

ABSTRACT The objectives of this research were: 1) to disclose the types of question used by English teacher at Jakarta Intensive Learning Centre (JILC), 2) to discover the reasons of using questions by English teacher at Jakarta Intensive Learning Centre (JILC), and 3) to find out the effect of questions on the response of the students at Jakarta Intensive Learning Centre (JILC). This research employed descriptive research design which applied qualitative approach with reference to Bloom’s Taxonomy. The subject of the research was a teacher at Jakarta Intensive Learning Centre (JILC) Andi Tonro in Gowa. Data collection of this research was conducted through observation and interview. The result of this study showed that the teacher performed four out of six question types from Bloom’s Taxonomy, they were: knowledge, comprehension, application, and analysis questions. The reasons why the teacher asked questions were dominated by to check students’ understanding. The types of questions asked were determined by pedagogical purposes the teacher wanted to achieve because teaching and learning process in JILC was test practices oriented. The students who enrolled in JILC were expected to achieve high score in examination. So that, test practices oriented was the tool to familiarize the students to the variety of test. Furthermore, the question that received the longest response was comprehension questions (seven-to-ten-words) based on the length of students’ responses, the longer response was knowledge questions (four-to-six-words), and briefly response were application questions (two-to-three-words) and analysis questions (two-to-three-words) while two questions which were synthesis and evaluation questions did not get any response because of the students’ level of thinking and the topics discussed in the three meetings might not suit the use of synthesis and evaluation questions

Autonomous Vision Based Facial and voice Recognition on the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

The development of human navigation and tracking in the real time environment will lead to the implementation of more advanced tasks that can performed by the autonomous robots. That means, we proposed new intelligent algorithm for human identification using difficult of facial and speech which can substantially improve the rate of recognition as compared to the biometric identification for Robust system development. This project system that can recognize face using Eigenface recognizer with Principal component analysis (PCA) and human voice using the Hidden Markov Model(HMM) and. Also in this paper, combinations of algorithms such as modified Eigenface, Haar-Cascade classifier, PCA and HMM resulted in a more robust system for facial and speech recognition. The proposed system was implemented on AR drone 2.0 using the Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 platform together with EmguCV. The testing of the proposed system carried out in an indoor environment in order to evaluate its performance in terms of detection distance, angle of detection, and accuracy of detection. 500 images of different people were used for face recognition at detection distances. The best average result of 92.22% was obtained at a detection

Migration studies : how should we approach them? learning through participatory practices. The So-Close case study

Community members such as migrants are involved to collect data but not included in the actual research process, for example,in developing research guidelines or in using research tools such as data analysis. Participatory methodology enables investigating a specific issue while including the community involved. In the So-Close project, we applied this approach to investigate how we study migration and the role of the cultural heritage of forced migration through four multi-stakeholders participatory focus groups (FGs) in Spain (involving Refugees, NGO and Cultural Institutions representatives, Academics and Policy-Makers). From the FGs, emerged the need to investigate complex issues from various angles and contexts to create sustainable, community-approved, and shared solutions