HOW TO FOSTER DIALOGICALITY IN GROUP INTERACTION?

Define and Conquer: How Semantics Foster Progress; A Response to Recent Commentaries

Introspectibles: Tangible Interaction to Foster Introspection

Digital devices are now ubiquitous and have the potential to be used to support positive changes in human lives and promote psychological well-being. This paper presents three interactive systems that we created focusing on introspection activities, leveraging tangible interaction and spatial augmented reality. More specifically, we describe anthropomorphic augmented avatars that display the us...

How to foster green product innovation in an inert sector

Green product innovations offer a large number of compelling benefits to different stakeholders throughout their life cycle (raw material extraction, production, use and maintenance, end of life). However, in inert sectors such as the construction industry, the development of green products is still too slow to meet future needs. To push green innovation, this article investigates the applicati...

How Groups Can Foster Consensus

A local culture denotes a set of rules on business behaviour among firms in a cluster. Similar to social norms or conventions, it is an emergent feature of interaction in an economic network. To model its emergence, we consider a distributed agent population, representing cluster firms. Further, we build on a continuous opinion dynamics model with bounded confidence (ε), which assumes that two ...

Identity text: an educational intervention to foster cultural interaction

BACKGROUND Sociocultural theories state that learning results from people participating in contexts where social interaction is facilitated. There is a need to create such facilitated pedagogical spaces where participants can share their ways of knowing and doing. The aim of this exploratory study was to introduce pedagogical space for sociocultural interaction using 'Identity Text'. METHODS ...