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Consequences of Connection: Loneliness, Reading, and Robots
Modern communication technologies are reshaping the ways humans connect with one another as well as how we converse with machines of our own making. Our question in this essay is whether digital communication is changing the nature of conversation and, if so, what the implications may be for us as people. Our analysis identifies three sets of parameters for approaching these issues: linguistic (structure of conversations, communication medium, modulating the conversation to suit the perceived needs of our interlocutor, controlling the conversation), social (inner- or other-directed behavior, front stage or back stage behavior, strong or weak social ties, loneliness), and cognitive (level of intellectual engagement). We use these parameters to explore some of the linguistic, social, and cognitive consequences of electronically-mediated communication, of social reading onscreen, and of conversing with social robots
Spartan Daily, November 19, 2003
Volume 121, Issue 58https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/9924/thumbnail.jp
Academic Performance and Behavioral Patterns
Identifying the factors that influence academic performance is an essential
part of educational research. Previous studies have documented the importance
of personality traits, class attendance, and social network structure. Because
most of these analyses were based on a single behavioral aspect and/or small
sample sizes, there is currently no quantification of the interplay of these
factors. Here, we study the academic performance among a cohort of 538
undergraduate students forming a single, densely connected social network. Our
work is based on data collected using smartphones, which the students used as
their primary phones for two years. The availability of multi-channel data from
a single population allows us to directly compare the explanatory power of
individual and social characteristics. We find that the most informative
indicators of performance are based on social ties and that network indicators
result in better model performance than individual characteristics (including
both personality and class attendance). We confirm earlier findings that class
attendance is the most important predictor among individual characteristics.
Finally, our results suggest the presence of strong homophily and/or peer
effects among university students
Human Factors in Agile Software Development
Through our four years experiments on students' Scrum based agile software
development (ASD) process, we have gained deep understanding into the human
factors of agile methodology. We designed an agile project management tool -
the HASE collaboration development platform to support more than 400 students
self-organized into 80 teams to practice ASD. In this thesis, Based on our
experiments, simulations and analysis, we contributed a series of solutions and
insights in this researches, including 1) a Goal Net based method to enhance
goal and requirement management for ASD process, 2) a novel Simple Multi-Agent
Real-Time (SMART) approach to enhance intelligent task allocation for ASD
process, 3) a Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCMs) based method to enhance emotion and
morale management for ASD process, 4) the first large scale in-depth empirical
insights on human factors in ASD process which have not yet been well studied
by existing research, and 5) the first to identify ASD process as a
human-computation system that exploit human efforts to perform tasks that
computers are not good at solving. On the other hand, computers can assist
human decision making in the ASD process.Comment: Book Draf
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Addressing Data Concerns and Usage through Law of Attraction on using Intelligent Voice Assistants in Language Classrooms
Data-mining done by data companies on ICT tools and the law of attraction comes out with a similar idea in
terms of the outcome produced. In order to comprehend the idea, this paper dwells into the data rights,
privacy policies and securities of the target application (Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa) that are used
in the process of language teaching and learning. A lot of researches focus on the implication of ICT tools in
language classrooms and so this paper reports on the ethical considerations that must be looked into before
implementation of any ICT tools in language classrooms. Reasons for and against the use of Voice Assistants
in terms of data privacy have been discussed with detailing on the similarities between the theory of law of
attraction and the effect of data mining. The findings suggest that the constant and productive use of ICT
tools in language classrooms will alter the students ’data pattern towards his/her area of study. The research
suggests that it is the duty and obligation of the implementer to verify the tools to be inculcated and use it
productively
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