Recently, both game industry professionals and academic researchers have started focusing on playergenerated behavioral data as a mean to gather insights on player psychology through datamining. Although some research has already proven solid correlations between ingame behavior and personality, most techniques focus on extracting knowledge from in-game behavior data alone. This paper posits th...

By drawing from semiology, epistemology and philosophical hermeneutics, we discuss the way CSCW models data, situation and activity—information representation. We point out similarities between discourse in hermeneutics and in the anthropology and sociology that predominates in CSCW, and propose that a hermeneutic perspective offers a unifying view on the social science and computer science wit...

The field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), from its very beginnings in the 1950s, has been criticized for its name, as well as its ambition. Most of the debate concerns the possibility of artificial intelligence, and presumes there is indeed some thing which is intelligence; the only question has been whether or not artificial systems can be built which exhibit, or have, this thing. That is, th...

one of the important occurrence and officering in current history of which exist of renaissance and major effective in existing new direction in the science, is hermeneutics (interpretation). hermeneutics is well accepted in among some of current scientist. in this paper, history past, branches and also, some of the major thinkers is represented in this school. so, fundamental aspects of ricoeu...

Interviewing is a popular research method, closely associated with hermeneutic inquiry as a means of obtaining lived experience material from the viewpoint of the experiencing person. This article provides personal and theoretical insights into the use of the research interview to explore the meaning of witnessed resuscitation from the perspectives of emergency department registered nurses and ...

This essay will argue for the centrality of empathy in the doctor-patient relationship-as a core of ethically sound, responsible therapeutics. By "empathy," I intend an explicitly hermeneutic practice, informed by a reflexive understanding of patient and self. After providing an overview of the history of the concept of empathy in clinical medicine, I discuss current definitions and the use of ...