Cultural Encounters: A Final Word

Negotiating Cultural Encounters

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meSch - Material Encounters with Digital Cultural Heritage

meSch has the goal of designing, developing and deploying tools for the creation of tangible interactive experiences that connect the physical dimension of museums and exhibitions with relevant digital cross-media information in novel ways. In particular, meSch will deliver a platform to enable curators, artists, designers and cultural heritage professionals in general to create smart objects a...

A Final Word about Stories

I STARTED THIS series talking about stories—how we learn best from hearing what others like us have experienced. I often rail at our community for not encouraging a more scienti c approach to decisionmaking. A question I commonly ask is, “How many of you looked at the randomized, double-blind, controlled experiments that clearly show that is better than <whatever you were...

Microsoft Word - Final Knittle

Objectives: To determine whether the integrity of motivational interviewing (MI) delivery relates to short-term changes in physical activity (PA) and regulatory style within a sample of patients with rheumatoid arthritis, and to examine whether therapist proficiency in MI improves over time. Methods: During a randomized controlled trial to promote PA, 27 patients received a motivational intervi...

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