A total of 48 preschoolers (ages 3, 4, and 5) received four tasks modelled after prior work designed to assess the development of "episodic foresight". For each task, children encountered a problem in one room and, after a brief delay, were given the opportunity in a second room to select an item to solve the problem. Importantly, after selecting an item, children were queried about their memor...

Purpose Most complex engineering projects encounter unexpected events through their life cycle. These are traditionally attributed to inaccurate foresight and poor planning. Outlining a nonanticipatory alternate, the authors seek explain ability rebound from events, without foresight, using resilient systems theory. This paper seeks outline theoretical underpinnings of project resilience identi...

Opal is an EC funded project (IST-2000-28295) designed to establish if and how a computer application may support team building and partnership. The project focuses on the early stages of interaction where rapid and robust assessments must be made of potential partners’ competence, compatibility and confidence in each others’ future performance. One of the aims of the project is to assess wheth...

The objective of the project is to examine recent progress in two major areas of research – computer science and neuroscience, and their related fields – and to understand whether progress in understanding cognition in living systems has new insights to offer those researching the construction of artificial cognitive systems.

The development of any region or territory stems from its own dynamic nature. Economic activity and employment are stimulated by the number of local initiatives plus the crossfertilisation of those same initiatives. Globalisation, external constraints and technological change are therefore not really obstacles to be overcome but rather opportunities to be seized. In our experience, participator...

An increasing number of technology firms are implementing processes to identify and evaluate the ethical risks their systems products. A key part these review is foresee potential impacts technologies on different groups users. In this chapter, we use expression Ethical Foresight Analysis (EFA) refer a variety analytical strategies for anticipating or predicting issues that new technological ar...