Displacements. Contexts for a Participatory Media Project

A Subjective Credibility Model for Participatory Media

We propose a method to determine the credibility of messages that are posted in participatory media (such as blogs), of use in recommender systems designed to provide users with messages that are considered to be the most credible to them. Our approach draws from theories developed in sociology, political science, and information science – this results in a method for evaluating the credibility...

An Infrastructure for Participatory Media

Purchasing decisions can be hard to make. For example, the decision to purchase a house by a person can be based on many parameters such as the price of the house, distance from her workplace, quietness of the neighborhood, etc. It is hard to capture all such parameters in a recommender system or a knowledge-sharing website. Further, many such parameters are highly subjective and difficult to e...

Participatory Learning in Formal Adult Education Contexts

Formal courses in adult education are most often housed within schools or faculties that include other disciplines such as teacher education, psychology, or training and development. Adult educators teaching these courses may feel obligated to follow the procedures and practices of the institution as well as of the programs with which they are associated. This creates a set of paradoxes and con...

Instability Analysis of Miscible Displacements in Homogeneous Porous Media

A COLLABORATIVE - PROJECT MEMORY TOOL FOR PARTICIPATORY PLANNING Anna

Technology is more and more providing planners and designer with tools and methods to collect and communicate spatial data and assist spatial analysis. When we think about new technologies supporting planning we mainly think about GIS, urban modelling, simulation models and virtual reality. But many other challenges to the planning practice need for tools to support and improve planning activit...