PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION: FROM CRIMINALITY TO PIETY

Criminality from Alcoholism

Situational Transformation of Personal Space

This paper describes an experimental study that investigated how interpersonal distance varied depending on situational factors, as well as postures and gender. The results revealed statistically significant simple main effects of the “task”, “combination of bodily directions”, and “devices”. Interpersonal distances were affected by the differences between: (a) “without task > with a task”, (b)...

The Piety of Escape

This paper examines two seemingly contradictory views of piety found in Plato’s Euthyphro and Crito. Using the Socratic dialogues for evidence of what Socrates actually believed and to piece together a Socratic account of piety, it seems that his argument in favor of remaining in prison is inconsistent with his own beliefs. The paper concludes that Socrates ought not to have thought it was impi...

From Personal Environment to Personal Learning Environment

In the scientific literature, the Personal Environment has been described as a “new” resource to the learning process and named Personal Learning Environment. However, it has not yet been demonstrated in what way and to what extent Personal Environments contribute significantly and efficiently to the learning processes and outcomes framed by Higher Education programs. Our position paper aims fi...

From Personal Computer to Personal Assistant

Much of the confusion that surrounds electronic personal assistants arises from the open-ended complexity of their development. In this paper we categorise some of their more common uses before suggesting several thought-provoking extensions.