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A tout instant, quoi que nous fassions, nous sommes environnés par des corps qui réduisent l’espace et opposent de la résistance. Que sont ces corps qui saturent notre quotidien et avec lesquels il nous faut constamment négocier l’espace... more
This paper summarizes a doctoral research currently in its early stage. The study explores the extent to which Web 2.0 technologies are affecting the ways PhD students learn to become researchers. The planned study will firstly survey... more
Individuals can do a broad variety of things with their words and enjoy different degrees of this capacity. What moderates this capacity? And in cases in which this capacity is unjustly disrupted, what is a good explanation for it? These... more
From centuries-old Cartesian dualism to the contemporary obsession with neuroscience, hidden philosophical assumptions about our minds and bodies are exposed when we think about pain and its treatment. A new conceptualisation – the... more
Considerable investment has been made to bring technology to schools and these investments have indeed resulted in many “success stories”. However there are two significant gaps in educational uses of technology that must be addressed.... more
Despite the growing interest and supporting evidence for person-centered care (PCC), there is still a fundamental disagreement about what makes healthcare person-centered. In this article, we define PCC as operating with three fundamental... more
Multimedia such as animations are increasingly common in science teaching. Existing research overwhelmingly focuses on developing principles for designing multimedia that support cognitive processing of information. This chapter meets an... more
In this paper, I am looking for the common ground to judge video game's formal qualities, such as its interface, the rule system and game goals, which would include and explain both intentionally and unintentionally subversive games... more
Our research on the social movement opposing proposed piracy legislation reveals novel societal opportunities and challenges caused by digitization. We summarize literature on the Katz and Lazarsfeld Two-Step Model of Communication and... more
A obra visa introduzir os Estudos de Plataforma, um campo de estudos que, desde o início da década de 2010, discute as especificidades políticas e materiais das mídias sociais e de outras plataformas online. Datificação, algoritmos,... more
Mobile eye-tracking technology provides data that can be linked to user attention during visual perception. The relationship between a fixation and its subsequent saccade has been proposed to identify ambient versus focal visual... more
Given the limited adoption of research-based teaching methods at the postsecondary level, research is necessary that examines why faculty choose to teach the way they do. In this article, I draw on insights from research on teacher... more
The acquisition of a new skill usually proceeds through five stages, from novice to expert, with a sixth stage of mastery available for highly motivated performers. In this chapter, we restate the six stages of the Dreyfus Skill Model,... more
This chapter draws on cognitive psychology and neuroscience to explain how the cinematic kiss turns the film experience into a sensuous and intimate experience. By analyzing a series of cinematic kissing scenes selected from dramas with... more
TASTY is a product derived from the major social news and entertainment company Buzzfeed and it has become a product that thrived as alternative to complicated cooking recipes that normally require a vast knowledge of expertise. Thus,... more
This paper analyzes the skilled performance of rock climbing through the frame- work of Embodied and Enacted Cognitive Science. It introduces a notion of enactive planning that is part of one mindful activity of ongoing responsiveness to... more
In adopting new theoretical advancements within linguistics and ecological psychology, this paper investigates humor from an ecological perspective in naturally occurring social interaction. In doing so, it is claimed that the notions of... more
The purpose of this study was to explore relationships between app affordances and user abilities in second graders' interactions with mathematics virtual manipulative touchscreen tablet apps. The research questions focused on varying... more
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Bianca Trovò. (2013, January 7). Dall'approccio ecologico all'embodiment: l'inemendabilità del reale secondo l'ottica gibsoniana (Version 1). Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3830118
Bianca Trovò. (2013, January 7). Dall'approccio ecologico all'embodiment: l'inemendabilità del reale secondo l'ottica gibsoniana (Version 1). Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3830118
Since the birth of autism as a psychiatric category, autistic individuals have been described as preoccupied with the world of objects and detached from the world of subjects, thus marking a distinction between the 'social' and the... more
This article focuses on WeChat, which remains China’s most iconic mobile application. After offering a short history of WeChat’s development and growth, the next section reviews popular narratives of Tencent’s messaging app--ranging from... more
Technical design can produce exclusionary and even discriminatory effects for users. A lack of discriminatory intent is insufficient to avoid discriminatory design, since implicit assumptions about users rarely include all relevant user... more
Lists are such a simple and ubiquitous form in our everyday lives that we do not think twice about their form. At the same time, lists abound in literary texts, where they considerably impact our reading experience. In order to come to... more
It indicates the environment offers an opportunity to the agent to do an action, independently if the agent makes use of it or not. Affordance is all possible action in the environment. (Gibson, 1979).
This article focuses on situations and emotional perception. To this end, I start with the Kuleshov effect wherein identical shots of performers manifest different expressions when cut to different contexts. However, I conducted... more
It’s difficult to locate the exact starting point of Postmodern Jukebox, as Scott Bradlee acknowledged in a speech to the members of Oxford Union on the 8th of March 2017. Indeed, whilst the first recorded video on the Postmodern Jukebox... more
Seals have a powerful and peculiar connection with people. That they serve as signifiers of social identity, symbols of status and power, has been well established and extensively discussed. The association of the seal and the human body... more
This study investigates the design and use of sensory gardens in two special schools by evaluating their functional zones and how they are utilized, especially by children with special educational needs, and the staff who care for them.... more
This study uses various conceptual definitions of control as an analytical lens to explore the Netflix platform. We experiment with various questions of control to examine how control is enacted on Netflix, how it is embedded in different... more
My main objective in this article will be to compare Heidegger's description of the way we perceive our environment in everyday coping -- which is based on the concept of equipment (Zeug) -- and James Gibson's theory of affordance... more
This work presents an overview of the contemporary information and communication technologies and their adequate application in all four aspects: information, environment, communication and assessment. Examples for this application are... more
The phenomenon of hate speech has become a predominant component of public debate and a point of great interest in academic research. Plenty of studies investigating the various expressions of hate speech, including online hate speech,... more
In order to define instrumentation in the context of mathematics education, it is necessary to define instruments: at this stage of this article we do not differentiate between instruments and artifacts, i.e. regard them as things that... more
Schizophrenia and psychosis are associated with wide-ranging phenomenological disturbances. These, it is often said, involve 'aberrant salience'. Others have sought to account for the relevant phenomenology in terms of 'affordance'. We... more