Simtech 08 poster submission: digital upheavals: ethnographic studies on digital-DIY activity

This poster describes current work-in-progress on a digital-DIY research project, exploring how people experiencing life-change configure and re-configure their domestic entertainment, information and communication technologies. The project draws upon a number of theoretical concepts from human-computer interaction, the social construction of technology, material culture and design studies to understand the digital-DIY phenomenon and is methodologically rooted in the ethnographic tradition. This poster describes early pilot-study work utilizing Blythe et al’s (2002) ‘Technology Biographies’ method applied to (amongst other pilot studies) the author’s own autoethnographic study of moving home and concludes with a summary of themes and concepts emerging from this early data. The poster presents proposals for future empirical studies of people experiencing life-change

Precautionary Expertise for GM Crops (PEG): National Workshop Report UK

Although the precautionary principle has been widely accepted in Europe as a basis for decision making about Genetically Modified (GM) crops, there are many perspectives on its interpretation and how it should be implemented. The PEG project is analysing how current European practices compare with different accounts of the precautionary principle. It has been examining different people’s accounts of precaution and their views on the procedures for regulating and managing GM crops, in seven EU member states. Workshops with the potential end-users of our research findings are an integral part of the PEG project. Workshops have been carried out in each of the partner’s countries. These scenario workshops offer a policy analysis tool that enables a more action orientated approach to policy research. They help bridge the gap between research and the policy process by involving people at an early stage of the project, and ensure that our research questions and findings are embedded in the policy process. This report discusses the outcomes of the UK workshop, ‘GM Futures? Scenarios for GM Crops’, held on 5th February 2003 at the Royal Horticultural Halls, London. The workshop used three policy scenarios as a tool for considering the causes and consequences of commercialisation of GM crops. Rather than attempting to predict the future, by mapping different scenarios the workshop attempted to draw out dynamics and interactions which may not otherwise be obvious. Workshop participants came from a range of backgrounds and were all involved in the policy process either directly as a member of a Government department or advisory committee, or through their position within their organisation. A key policy-relevant outcome was the way that the three policy scenarios - to go ahead with commercialisation, to postpone it further or to commercialise GM crops in a limited way - might all present the Government with equally complex and difficult consequences. Further, while limited commercialisation may appear to be an attractive policy option, the scenario map drawn by the participants indicated difficulties that would need to be handled in order for limited commercialisation to be regarded as a potential option

Shaka, April 15, 1971

Volume 2, Issue 4 Third World Issue From the Editorial: This issue of SHAKA, the monthly publication of SJS\u27 Black Studies department, hopes to serve as an effective organ to convey a vital message. We are voicing the crys of victory and determination of oppressed peoples the world over. From Angola to Palistine, and from Indo-China to the black communities right here in America.https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/shaka/1001/thumbnail.jp

Shaka, May 21, 1971

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Outline for legislative theory workshop

An outline for a nine-day workshop in legislative theory, methodology, and techniques in Lao PDR, which aimed at strengthening legislative drafters' ability to write drafting research reports

Shaka, December 18, 1970

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The dimension of a variety

We invent the notion of a {\it dimension of a variety} $V$ as the cardinality of all its proper {\it derived} subvarieties (of the same type). The dimensions of varieties of lattices, varieties of regular bands and other general algebraic structures are determined.Comment: The results of the paper were presented at the workshop AAA71 and CYA21 at B\c{e}dlewo, Poland on February 11, 2006. the paper is submitted to Discussiones Mathematicae Algebra and Stochastc Methods, special issu

Exploring Intercultural Factors in International Pilot-Air Traffic Controller Communications

This workshop aims to present results from exploratory research that investigates culturally influenced factors arising from international radiotelephony communications as well as pilots’ and ATCOs’ perceptions of their threat to aviation safety. The final goal is to generate a taxonomy of intercultural factors that can be used as a tool to improve intercultural communications within the aviation community. Based on research data, workshop participants will rate the importance of some of the identified factors as safety issues, consider possibilities to incorporate them into training activities, and discuss strategies to address these issues in terms of testing and policy change

Identifying Interaction Variations that Affect the Effectiveness of Communication

This workshop will ask participants to identify the interaction process between pilots, and pilots and controllers, with consideration as to how these interactions can lead to an accident. To help participants be aware of these interaction variations that affect performance when facing a complex task, they will be invited to play a game that recreates cognitive, affective and conative aspects of communication, the main categories of the interaction process. The ultimate goal is to link these categories with the communicative approach as a teaching method