The transformation of laboratory activities to better embed the development essential personal attributes and attainment specific learning outcomes in engineering curriculum has been supported by integration online preparation modules. Beyond widely demonstrated effectiveness multimedia pre-laboratory strengthening students’ engagement preparedness for execution experimental tasks, this study a...

Traditional computer technology offers limited support for face-to-face, synchronous collaboration. Consequently, children who wish to collaborate while using computers must adapt their interactions to the single-user paradigm of most personal computers. Recent technological advances have enabled the development of co-located groupware systems offering support for concurrent, multi–user interac...

The human ability to follow speech gestures through the visual modality is a core component of speech perception. Remarkably, speech can be perceived not only by the ear and by the eye but also by the hand, with speech gestures felt from manual tactile contact with the speaker’s face. In the present study, early crossmodal interactions were investigated by comparing early auditory evoked potent...

The inhabitants of the Palestinian city Nablus in West Bank, which has been under Israeli military rule since 1967, practice bottom-up civility to shape public life spite political rights being denied them. As most institutional forms ‘civil society’ are deeply distrusted, everyday among Palestinians dynamically reacts occurrences violence. Based on ethnographic fieldwork 2013 and 2014, this ar...