By nature, computational systems are temporal machines. For more than 50 years, the discipline of HCI or human-computer interaction, has explored how people behave with dynamic objects like buttons, scrollbars or more recently tangible interfaces and ubiquitous environments. In the same time, a significant and complex culture has emerged: digital affordances are now familiar for users. Can this...

Theories of stimulus comparison were tested by examining ordinal properties of data obtained with six scaling tasks. Subjects judged simple "ratios" or "differences" of stimulus pairs constructed from a factorial design. In four additional tasks, the same judges also compared relations between pairs of stimulus pairs, judging "ratios of ratios," "ratios of differences," "differences of ratios,"...

Despite the benefits of advance directives (AD) to patients and care providers, they are often not completed due to lack of patient awareness. The purpose of the current article is to advocate for creation and use of an innovative information visualization (infovisual) as a health communication tool aimed at improving AD dissemination and engagement. The infovisual would promote AD awareness by...

In the nineteenth century toxicologists participated as experts in criminal poisoning trials and wrote reports at the request of judges and lawyers. In court, they were expected to provide expert advice to lay audiences (juries, judges, lawyers) and, as their conclusions could be decisive in establishing the final verdict, their reports had to be written in a way that was comprehensible to “the...

The study aims to ascertain whether intervention workshops held for Iranian EFL teachers had any effect on their knowledge of intercultural communicative competence (ICC) or sensitivity (IS). investigated the about ICC and IS practice teachers. 30 participated in a six-session workshop IS, completed Questionnaire (Zhou, 2011) (Chen & Starosta, 2000) before again after workshops. A further 1...