Using photo elicitation to understand first-year student experiences: Student metaphors of life, university and learning

Publishe

Where is our humanity?

Consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr Sebastian Kraemer challenges assumptions and prejudices about claimants

Workforce Intermediaries: Powering Regional Economies in the New Century

Examines the role of workforce intermediary organizations in developing local strategies and funding, and coordinating the efforts of stakeholders in regional economic development. Outlines the qualities of successful workforce intermediary organizations

The Cowl - v.61 - n.2 - Summer 1996

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Volume 61, Number 2 - Summer, 1996. 4 pages

A Trip to the Moon: Personalized Animated Movies for Self-reflection

Self-tracking physiological and psychological data poses the challenge of presentation and interpretation. Insightful narratives for self-tracking data can motivate the user towards constructive self-reflection. One powerful form of narrative that engages audience across various culture and age groups is animated movies. We collected a week of self-reported mood and behavior data from each user and created in Unity a personalized animation based on their data. We evaluated the impact of their video in a randomized control trial with a non-personalized animated video as control. We found that personalized videos tend to be more emotionally engaging, encouraging greater and lengthier writing that indicated self-reflection about moods and behaviors, compared to non-personalized control videos