Acting Alone: exploring by-stander engagement through performer/audience relationship

Exploring the Relationship between Learner EEG Mental Engagement and Affect

This paper studies the influence of learner’s affective states on the well established EEG-mental engagement index during a problem solving task. The electrical activity of the human brain, known as electroencephalography or EEG was registered according to an acquisition protocol in a learning environment specifically constructed for emotional elicitation. Data were gathered from 35 healthy sub...

Do Special Districts Act Alone?: Exploring the Relationship Between Flexible Boundaries and Intergovernmental Cooperation

Special districts have been seen as a formalized institution for promoting regional cooperation. They allow boundary design to the scale of public problems and may produce greater efficiency in the marketplace for local public goods. Many scholars also have highlighted the flexibility of special district boundaries once established, arguing that this flexibility allows for governance that is mo...

The Missing Link: Exploring the Relationship Between Higher Education and Political Engagement

Empirical political behavior research has consistently observed a robust and positive relationship between education and political engagement, but has failed to adequately explain why education is so important. Using data from the Baccalaureate and Beyond (B&B) Longitudinal Study, I test three competing hypotheses explaining the enduring link between higher education and political behavior. I f...

Exploring the relationship between occupational presence, occupational engagement, and people's well‐being

Exploring Civic Engagement on Public Displays

Research and deployment of public interactive displays is moving from laboratory environments into urban spaces and public areas (Müller et al. 2010 ). Public displays augment the activities in the space around them by facilitating different use cases, such as public statements (Ananny and Strohecker 2009 ; Dalsgaard and Halskov 2010 ), play and performance (O’Hara et al. 2008 ; Hosio et al. 20...