STUDENT VIEWS ON DOWNSHIFTER LIFESTYLE IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS

On Preserving Views in Evolving Environments

The construction and maintenance of data warehouses (views) in large-scale environments composed of numerous distributed information sources (ISs) such as the WWW has received great attention recently. Such environments are plagued with continuously changing information because ISs tend to continuously evolve by modifying not only their content but also their query capabilities and interface an...

Contrasting Views: Student and Teacher Perceptions on Ict in Education

This paper reports on a study of upper secondary school teachers’ and students’ perceptions of information and communication technologies (ICT) in education. Data for the study are interviews with teachers and students that are part of a Swedish fouryear project concerned with the advanced use of ICT in education. The results show that teachers use ICT for several different purposes, and that s...

Smart Views in Smart Environments

Smart environments integrate a multitude of different device ensembles and aim to facilitate proactive assistance in multi-display scenarios. However, the integration of existing software, especially visualization systems, to take advantage of these novel capabilities is still a challenging task. In this paper we present a smart view management concept for an integration that combines and displ...

The influence of controllable lifestyle on medical student specialty choice.

Smartphone Practice and Lifestyle: The Case of Urban in Iran

This paper explores the relationship between smartphone practices and lifestyle in urban Iran. Recently, the use of smartphones has dramatically been increased in Iran, and this trend is expected to influence users’ lifestyle in the everyday context. Therefore, to test this hypothesis, I follow the notion of “lifestyle” which was advanced by Pierre Bourdieu to offer an analysis of this changing...