Smoothly functioning infrastructures are “unnoticeable”; they attract attention upon a breakdown. When infrastructure does not function as intended, it stop working altogether. Rather, functions in unprecedented ways. This article argues that the process of malfunctioning, only facilitates engagement, but also produces an affect. ethnography shows how “broken road” ( razbitaia doroga ) rural po...

Workplace environment characteristics may positively or negatively evoke an individual’s affective experiences, and these experiences can influence affective experiences of others. This study investigates the relations between employees’ affective experiences and workplace environment characteristics. A questionnaire-based investigation was conducted with employees in Thai companies. Participan...

Identifying and reacting to the student’s affective state in an affective Intelligent Tutoring System framework has gained researchers’ attention in recent years. In general, an affective Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) framework has two components: 1) to detect the student’s affective state and 2) to react to the student’s affective state by providing appropriate strategies as a means to hel...