This chapter discusses how emotions operate between people in the social world, how computer mediation might affect emotional communication and co-ordination, and the challenges that socially situated emotions present for computer simulation and modeling. The first section reviews psychological literature addressing causes, effects, and functions of interpersonally communicated emotions, focusi...

This paper describes two architectures for designing asynchronous NULL Convention Logic (NCL) Booth2 multipliers. The first is better suited for a non-pipelined implementation, while the second is best for a high throughput pipelined realization. The two architectures are compared in terms of area and speed, using a gate-level NCL VHDL library with gate delays generated from physical level simu...

With recent developments in CAD and communication technologies, the way we visualise and communicate design representations is changing. A matter of great interest to architects, practitioners and researchers alike, is how computer technology might affect the way they think and work. The concern is not about the notion of ‘support’ alone, but about ensuring that computers do not disrupt the des...

Computer-mediated communication (CMC) has been adopted in most e-learning settings. However, few research studies have considered the effect of different CMC. This study examined how and why synchronous communication affected participation in online discussions. Two online classes that participated in two asynchronous and two synchronous online discussions were examined. Actual and perceived me...

In this paper, we demonstrate the formal verification of a parameterized asynchronous circuit which has request and acknowledgment controls through data paths. We propose a new encoding technique of the data path and construct a finite abstracted model. The properties expressed by ACTL formulas are modelchecked in the abstracted model, and then the correctness of the abstraction is mechanically...

In this paper, I suggest that computer mediation of human interaction will transform behavior by radically altering—in fact, dissolving—many familiar contexts in which we act. This is a time of tremendous technological change. Digital technologies supporting computation and communication are a major factor in this change. These technologies are themselves changing at a dramatic pace, in their c...

In this paper we discuss the parallel asynchronous implementation of the Hungarian method for solving the classical assignment problem. Multiple augmentations and price rises are simultaneously attempted starting from several unassigned sources and using possibly outdated price and assignment information. The results are then merged asynchronously subject to rather weak compatibility conditions...

Computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) is an emerging branch of the learning sciences concerned with studying how people can learn together with the help of computers. As we will see in this essay, such a simple statement conceals considerable complexity. The interplay of learning with technology turns out to be quite intricate. The inclusion of collaboration, computer mediation and d...

many health studies were interested to find the association between multiple predictors with a dependent variable. the popular method to analyze these studies was multiple regressions that assumed the predictors were independent. while in practice some predictors may depend on each other and they could not be presented in a regression model simultaneously, as a result the appropriate models suc...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Fast-food companies have been reproached for rising obesity levels due to aggressive marketing tactics targeted at children. They have countered that parents should be held responsible considering their critical role as nutritional gatekeepers. This study examined the comparative effects of media exposure and parental mediation on Indonesian children's fast food consum...