Exploring Victorian Contexts: Using Wikis to Enrich Cultural Understanding

Understanding Depression across Cultural Contexts

Yi, a young U.S.-born Hmong woman, is seriously distressed. She is having difficulty sleeping; she has lost her appetite; and she lacks interest in her studies. Yi also says that she has little energy and is having a difficult time balancing school and family obligations. Although she does not spontaneously use emotional terms to describe how she feels, when asked she agrees that she is unhappy...

Symbolic Power in Cultural Contexts SYMBOLIC POWER IN CULTURAL CONTEXTS

Using Wikis to Foster Collaborative Writing: Exploring Influencing Factors to Successful Implementation

Wiki technology provides new opportunities to foster collaborative learning in various educational settings. To empirically examine the impact of wikis on learning, this article explores students’ collaborative writing activities performed on MediaWiki. The activities were analyzed using a taxonomy with ten categories (clarify content, add content, delete content, add link, delete link, fix lin...

Interventions and Cultural Contexts

Exploring Computational Mechanismfor Contexts

-Human problem solving is done within a context, which constrains the solution space. There have been growing interests in computational modeling of contextual knowledge representation and context-based problem solving. There are different approaches to exploring the concept of context and corresponding computational mechanism for representing and utilizing the contextual model, both formal and...