scholarly journals Anxiety and Performance in Sex, Sport, and Stage: Identifying Common Ground

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
David L. Rowland ◽  
Jacques J. D. M. van Lankveld
Keyword(s):  
Common Ground ◽  
And Performance

Study on Common Ground Testing Platform Technology for Telemetry Core Equipment

2012 ◽  
Vol 220-223 ◽  
pp. 1472-1475
Author(s):  
Qiu Lin Tan ◽  
Xiang Dong Pei ◽  
Si Min Zhu ◽  
Ji Jun Xiong
Keyword(s):  
Data Exchange ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Digital Signal ◽  
Test System ◽  
Automatic Test System ◽  
Module Design ◽  
The Status ◽  
Output Module ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Hardware Circuit

On the basis of automatic test system of the status in domestic and foreign, by analysis of the various functions and performance of the integrated test system, a design of the integrated test system is proposed, FPGA as the core logic controller of the hardware circuit. The system of the hardware design include: digital signal source output modules, analog output module and PCM codec module. Design of hardware circuit are mainly described. In addition, a detailed analysis of some key technologies in the design process was given. Overall, its data exchange with host computer is through the PCI card, data link and bandwidth can be expanded in accordance with the actual needs. The entire system designed in the modular principle, which has a strong scalability.

scholarly journals Gaze awareness and metacognitive suggestions by a pedagogical conversational agent: an experimental investigation on interventions to support collaborative learning process and performance

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 469-498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yugo Hayashi
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Learning Performance ◽  
Conversational Agent ◽  
Learning Gains ◽  
Computer Supported Collaborative Learning ◽  
Collaborative Process ◽  
And Performance

AbstractResearch on collaborative learning has revealed that peer-collaboration explanation activities facilitate reflection and metacognition and that establishing common ground and successful coordination are keys to realizing effective knowledge-sharing in collaborative learning tasks. Studies on computer-supported collaborative learning have investigated how awareness tools can facilitate coordination within a group and how the use of external facilitation scripts can elicit elaborated knowledge during collaboration. However, the separate and joint effects of these tools on the nature of the collaborative process and performance have rarely been investigated. This study investigates how two facilitation methods—coordination support via learner gaze-awareness feedback and metacognitive suggestion provision via a pedagogical conversational agent (PCA)—are able to enhance the learning process and learning gains. Eighty participants, organized into dyads, were enrolled in a 2 × 2 between-subject study. The first and second factors were the presence of real-time gaze feedback (no vs. visible gaze) and that of a suggestion-providing PCA (no vs. visible agent), respectively. Two evaluation methods were used: namely, dialog analysis of the collaborative process and evaluation of learning gains. The real-time gaze feedback and PCA suggestions facilitated the coordination process, while gaze was relatively more effective in improving the learning gains. Learners in the Gaze-feedback condition achieved superior learning gains upon receiving PCA suggestions. A successful coordination/high learning performance correlation was noted solely for learners receiving visible gaze feedback and PCA suggestions simultaneously (visible gaze/visible agent). This finding has the potential to yield improved collaborative processes and learning gains through integration of these two methods as well as contributing towards design principles for collaborative-learning support systems more generally.

scholarly journals How Packaging of Information in Conversation Is Impacted by Communication Medium and Restrictions

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah A. Bibyk ◽  
Leslie M. Blaha ◽  
Christopher W. Myers
Keyword(s):  
Common Ground ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Communication Medium ◽  
Team Coordination ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Successful Communication ◽  
Improved Performance ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Way

In team-based tasks, successful communication and mutual understanding are essential to facilitate team coordination and performance. It is well-established that an important component of human conversation (whether in speech, text, or any medium) is the maintenance of common ground. Maintaining common ground has a number of associated processes in which conversational participants engage. Many of these processes are lacking in current synthetic teammates, and it is unknown to what extent this lack of capabilities affects their ability to contribute during team-based tasks. We focused our research on how teams package information within a conversation, by which we mean specifically (1) whether information is explicitly mentioned or implied, and (2) how multiple pieces of information are ordered both within single communications and across multiple communications. We re-analyzed data collected from a simulated remotely-piloted aerial system (RPAS) task in which team members had to specify speed, altitude, and radius restrictions. The data came from three experiments: the “speech” experiment, the “text” experiment, and the “evaluation” experiment (which had a condition that included a synthetic teammate). We asked first whether teams settled on a specific routine for communicating the speed, altitude, and radius restrictions, and whether this process was different if the teams communicated in speech compared to text. We then asked how receiving special communication instructions in the evaluation experiment impacted the way the human teammates package information. We found that teams communicating in either speech or text tended to use a particular order for mentioning the speed, altitude, and radius. Different teams also chose different orders from one another. The teams in the evaluation experiment, however, showed unnaturally little variability in their information ordering and were also more likely to explicitly mention all restrictions even when they did not apply. Teams in the speech and text experiments were more likely to leave unnecessary restrictions unmentioned, and were also more likely to convey the restrictions across multiple communications. The option to converge on different packaging routines may have contributed to improved performance in the text experiment compared some of the conditions in the evaluation experiment.

Model evaluation expectations of European ESM communities: results from a survey

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerome Servonnat ◽  
Eric Guilyardi ◽  
Zofia Stott ◽  
Kim Serradell ◽  
Axel Lauer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Model Evaluation ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Performance Metrics ◽  
Coupled Model ◽  
System Modelling ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Evaluation Tool ◽  
Technical Standards ◽  
Community Effort ◽  
And Performance

<p>Developing an Earth system model evaluation tool for a broad user community is a real challenge, as the potential users do not necessarily have the same needs or expectations. While many evaluation tasks across user communities include common steps, significant differences are also apparent, not least the investment by institutions and individuals in bespoke tools. A key question is whether there is sufficient common ground to pursue a community tool with broad appeal and application.</p><p>We present the main results of a survey carried out by Assimila for the H2020 IS-ENES3 project to review the model evaluation needs of European Earth System Modelling communities. Interviewing approximately 30 participants among several European institutions, the survey targeted a broad range of users, including model developers, model users, evaluation data providers, and infrastructure providers. The output of the study provides an analysis of  requirements focusing on key technical, standards, and governance aspects.</p><p>The study used ESMValTool as a  current benchmark in terms of European evaluation tools. It is a community diagnostics and performance metrics tool for the evaluation of Earth System Models that allows for comparison of single or multiple models, either against predecessor versions or against observations. The tool is being developed in such a way that additional analyses can be added. As a community effort open to both users and developers, it encourages open exchange of diagnostic source code and evaluation results. It is currently used in Coupled Model Intercomparison Projects as well as for the development and testing of “new” models.</p><p>A key result of the survey is the widespread support for ESMValTool amongst users, developers, and even those who have taken or promote other approaches. The results of the survey identify priorities and opportunities in the further development of the ESMValTool to ensure long-term adoption of the tool by a broad community.</p>

Learning in Virtual Teams

2018 ◽  
pp. 622-634 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuqing Ren
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Teams ◽  
Social Presence ◽  
Team Learning ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Shared Knowledge ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Storage And Retrieval ◽  
Integrative Framework ◽  
Shared Identity ◽  
And Performance

This chapter reviews and integrates the latest research on team learning and virtual teams to understand the challenges associated with how team members learn and improve performance when working across distance. Team learning is defined as changes in a team’s knowledge and performance as a function of members gaining experiences of working with one another. This chapter presents an integrative framework that links challenges in virtual teams (lack of informal, spontaneous communication, lack of social presence, lack of common ground, reduced team cohesion and identification, lack of trust, lack of shared knowledge and understanding) to four key team learning processes (knowledge acquisition, sharing, storage, and retrieval). Three remedies are proposed to overcome the challenges through a strong shared identity, the choice of effective collaboration technologies, and timely teamwork interventions.

Construction and Performance of an Experimental Phased Array Acoustic Imaging Transducer

1981 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 352-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Fleming Dias
Keyword(s):  
Silicone Rubber ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Phased Array ◽  
Acoustic Imaging ◽  
Metal Foil ◽  
Acoustic Lens ◽  
Array Transducer ◽  
The Common ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Pulse Echo

A technique for electrically connecting to the PZT elements in a phased array transducer of a cardiac imaging probe is described. The transducer is a stack consisting of a PZT substrate with metallized faces and is bonded to an acoustic absorber across a thin alumina substrate of proper acoustic impedance. The PZT substrate is sawed into an array of elements and a metal foil with an integrally moulded acoustic lens is bonded to the tops of the elements to form the common ground connection. The transducer stack is enclosed in an alumina box and the electrical connection to the PZT elements is made by silk-screened metallic conductors on the sides of the box. The stack transducer module is enclosed in a two part linen bakelite case which is sealed by injecting silicone rubber. A technique that was used to prepare the surface of the acoustic absorber, which resulted in wide bandwidth transducers, is described. Finally, we show the pulse-echo response of the completed transducer imaging a point target in water.

scholarly journals Oromo Orature: An Ecopoetic Approach, Theory and Practice (Oromia/Ethiopia, Northeast Africa)

Humanities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Assefa Tefera Dibaba
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Social Attitudes ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Ecological Identity ◽  
Form Of Life ◽  
The People ◽  
Approach Theory ◽  
The Veil ◽  
And Performance

Using available empirical data of Oromo Orature, particularly folksongs, obtained from the field through interview and observation in Oromia, central Ethiopia, in 2009 and 2010, and other sources in print, this study has two objectives to tackle. First, reflecting upon the questions of a native model of origin narratives in relation to ecology, this study examines some examples of Oromo ecopoetics to determine: (a) how ecology and creative process conspire in the production of folksongs and performance, and (b) how the veil of nature hidden in the opacity of songs is revealed through the rites of creative process and performance as the human and ecological realms intersect. When put in relation to ecology, I theorize, the ecocultural creative act and process go beyond the mundane life activities to determine the people’s use (of nature), perceptions, and implications. Second, damages to the ecology are, I posit, damages to ecoculture. Drawing on the notion of ecological archetypes, thus, the study makes an attempt to find a common ground between the idea of recurrent ecological motifs in Oromo orature and the people’s ecological identity. The findings show that the political and social attitudes the Oromo songs embody are critical of authorities and the injustices authorities inflict on peoples and the environment they live in. For the folksinger, singing folksongs is a form of life, and through performance, both the performance and the song sustain the test of time. In its language, critique, imagination, and cultural referents, Oromo Orature is a voice of the people who rely on traditional agricultural life close to nature along with facing challenges of the dominating religious, political and scientific cultures.

The Poetic Thing (On Poetry and Deconstruction)

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
John W. P. Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Common Ground ◽  
The Common ◽  
And Performance ◽  
As If

Deconstruction has sometimes been championed as if it was a kind of poetic (as opposed to say analytic) writing. The identification has encouraged some to relegate deconstruction to the shadows or sidelines, the sideshows, of serious philosophy. Both tendencies are foolish. There nonetheless remains the question of the relation between two enigmatic discourses: poetry and deconstruction; some deep complicity is surely implied. Reading in the texts of philosophy and poetry the adventure and performance of the names themselves, philosophy, poetry and deconstruction, it is possible to outline the consistency of a logic, according to which: as poetry must have its thing, so too must deconstruction; and philosophy would be deconstruction's poetic thing. The common ground (of poetry and deconstruction) would be the photograph (in ancient and modern senses) recording the loss of what disappears into its appearance. After deconstruction philosophy can therefore only be accomplished otherwise, not as poetry, but as a poetic thing.

scholarly journals Enacting Bodies of Knowledge

IDEA JOURNAL ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (02) ◽  
pp. 13-31
Author(s):  
Jondi Keane ◽  
Rea Dennis ◽  
Meghan Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Embodied Cognition ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Shared Environment ◽  
Design Decision ◽  
Transfer Of Knowledge ◽  
Event Space ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Research Experiment ◽  
And Performance

This article discusses a range of issues that arise when bringing together researcher-practitioners around the intersection of art and science, body and environment. Although prompted by the issues played out at the second international Body of Knowledge: Art and Embodied Cognition Conference, the article addresses over-arching concerns around transfer of knowledge that are played out at conferences, through exhibitions and performance, and in publications. The researchers of embodied cognition and arts practitioners/performers share a fascination with the way cognitive ecologies emerge to reveal the modes of thinking, feeling, moving and making that enact features of our shared environment. While theorists explore how enactive theories of cognition observe and track these dynamic changes, practitioners tend to reflect upon the changes their practice initiates. The intersections of diverse research approaches amongst such common ground highlight the need for space and air to allow tensions, blind spots, opportunities and potentials for knowledge production to become perceptible; to spark productive conversations. This article considers the conference as an instance of enactive research in which communities of practice gather in an attempt to change encounter into exchange. In this case, the organisational structure of the conference becomes a crucial design decision that enacts an event-space. Consequently, if the event-space is itself a research experiment, then conferral, diversity, inclusion and cultural practices become crucial qualities of movement to observe, track and reflect upon. The activities within and beyond the conference indicate the extent to which creative research platforms alongside embodied enactive research projects must collaborate to draw out the resonances between diverse modes of acquiring knowledge and co-constructing the environment.

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