RUSSIAN CHOICE: FROM PERSONAL PROPERTY TO PERSONAL DIGNITY

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.

Property, Privacy, and Personal Data

Grasping the concept of personal property.

The concept of property is integral to personal and societal development, yet understanding of the cognitive basis of ownership is limited. Objects are the most basic form of property, so our physical interactions with owned objects may elucidate nuanced aspects of ownership. We gave participants a coffee mug to decorate, use and keep. The experimenter also designed a mug of her own. In Experim...

From Personal Desktops to Personal Dataspaces: A Report on Building the iMeMex Personal Dataspace Management System

We propose a new system that is able to handle the entire Personal Dataspace of a user. A Personal Dataspace includes all data pertaining to a user on all his disks and on remote servers such as network drives, email and web servers. This data is represented by a heterogeneous mix of files, emails, bookmarks, music, pictures, calendar data, personal information streams and so on. State-of-the-a...