scholarly journals The Emerging of Hydrovoltaic Materials as a Future Technology: A Case Study for China

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiale Xie ◽  
Liuliu Wang ◽  
Xiaoying Chen ◽  
Pingping Yang ◽  
Fengkai Wu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Future Technology

scholarly journals Collect Your Happiness: A Case Study of Using Positive Psychology Principles in Technology Design (Preprint)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lekai Zhang ◽  
Shouqian Sun ◽  
Kejun Zhang ◽  
Kevin Wolterink ◽  
Baixi Xing
Keyword(s):  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Multimedia Database ◽  
Technology Design ◽  
Interactive Applications ◽  
Future Technology ◽  
Human Happiness ◽  
The Difference

BACKGROUND More and more of our daily activities depend on smartphones and applications. Thus, an increasing number of studies are interested in whether interactive applications can be used to improve happiness of individuals. OBJECTIVE The study aimed to develop and test a digital application designed for happiness. METHODS This paper presents an application called Collect Your Happiness (CYH) that is based on some positive psychology principles. It can not only enhance people’s happiness by collecting their daily happy moments, but provide small tasks to improve their happiness levels. A cross-cultural measurement between the Chinese and Dutch was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of this intervention by SHS, SWLS, PGWBI, and MAAS. In addition, collected moments were coded based on Selig- man’s PERMA model to analyze the cultural differences. RESULTS Results show that CYH can help people from both countries improve their happiness. The Chinese tended to find their happiness in relationships (R) with their friends and family, however, the Dutch tended to search for meaning (M) and engagement (E) in their lives. CONCLUSIONS In this paper, we developed an application that provided recording positive things, reminders for the past happy moments and tasks for users to gain happiness. The CYH successfully enhance the happiness of the cross-cultural users for four weeks. We also explored the difference of happiness between the Dutch and the Chinese based on Seligman’s PERMA model, and established a multimedia database of happiness for future research. Despite some limitations, most users found the application helpful to improve their happiness. By directly measuring subjective and multidimensional perspectives of happiness, there is potential to more successfully promote people’s happiness. Overall, our study not only complement existing positive psychological interventions that enhance human happiness, but it also suggests novel ways of applying positive psychology principles in the future technology design.

Total Sustainable Evaluation for Road Projects

2021 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 137-148
Author(s):  
Norhan Sayed ◽  
Mohamed Abdel Hamid ◽  
Karim El-Dash
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation System ◽  
Environmental Science ◽  
Social Impacts ◽  
Future Technology ◽  
Surrounding Environment ◽  
The Social ◽  
Project Construction ◽  
Sustainable Evaluation ◽  
Road Projects

Quality of Infrastructure became indispensable to the innovation-driven development. Poor infrastructure quality means more extra costs for operation and maintenance, in addition to un-studied impacts on the surrounding environment and society. To eliminate the bad impacts and the extra costs, sustainability must be applied in all infrastructure projects. Sustainability represents one of the latest degree subjects that have various trials to connect the social science with the engineering and the environmental science with the future technology. The objective of this research is to provide an integrated sustainable evaluation system (ISES) for quantifying all impacts of road projects. The proposed evaluation system took into consideration the different phases of project including construction phase and operational phase. The different impacts of road projects were divided into three main classifications; the project economic costs to include costs of project construction and operation; the environmental impacts; and the social impacts. Furthermore, a real case study was discussed to validate the research methodology, where it was concluded that the environmental and social impacts have the main impact on project decision and according to the ISES value, the case study road has a sustainable impact on the surrounding environment and society.

Considerations for Future Technology Development Based on EFL Teachers' Integration of Technology

2020 ◽  
pp. 239-260
Author(s):  
Tim Kochem ◽  
Ananda Astrini Muhammad ◽  
Yasin Karatay ◽  
Haeyun Jin ◽  
Volker Hegelheimer
Keyword(s):  
Educational Technology ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Future Technology ◽  
Integration Of Technology ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
Language Classrooms ◽  
Effective Integration

Technology-enhance language learning (TELL) continues to grow in use within language classrooms. However, a number of hurdles still remain when it comes to the effective integration of technology for skill-specific language learning, such as a lack of training and an overabundance of tools to choose from. This chapter identifies and describes three major hurdles that still plague effective TELL practices. Authors describe 2 current efforts to overcome these hurdles: a Global Online Course (GOC) on effective educational technology integration, and a year-long comparative case study on the GOC that explores the trainees' perceptions of educational technology. The chapter presents potential avenues for overcoming the above hurdles based on insights gained from four teachers of the GOC, as well as the trainees' perceptions and integration of educational technology in the language classroom.

Communication Matrices for Managing Dialogue Change to Teamwork Transformation

2020 ◽  
pp. 98-115
Author(s):  
James Calvin
Keyword(s):  
Change Management ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Management Process ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Generational Diversity ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Future Technology ◽  
Technology Platforms ◽  
Dialogic Approach

New technology platforms continue to be introduced inside organizations in this digital age. Technology and generational diversity will have sustained impact on how business organizations consider and adapt to meet a number of technology and people challenges. The case discusses why it is to promote and sustain crucial conversations dialogue among team members to both enhance and strengthen team and teamwork practices. In the case, the change management process was essential to being able to go deeper through matrixed crucial conversations to achieve a desired organization goal. This case study chapter offers insight and outcomes that were achieved by building a dialogic approach and model, so a vital unit of the organization could begin taking advantage of future technology enhancements.

scholarly journals A munka világa az általános iskolások jövőképében

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamás Gáspár
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Future Technology ◽  
Story Writing ◽  
Social Use ◽  
Primary School Age

Az új ipari forradalom (Ipar 4.0) néhány évtizeden belül alapvetően megváltoztatja a munka világát. Ebben az időtávban ugyanakkor egy generációváltás is lezajlik: a munkaerőpiac meghatározó részét azok adják, akik ma kisiskolás korúak. Ez az életkor nagyon érzékeny, a képességek, normák alakításának, a nevelésnek alapvető időszaka. Ezért fontos kérdés, hogy mi van a gyerekek fejében a munka világáról. A tanulmány egy kutatás első verziója, esettanulmány egy átlagos általános iskolai osztály 8–9 illetve 14–15 éves tanulóiról. A felmérés megfigyelés, csoportos beszélgetés, rajzelemzés, fogalmazás és drámapedagógai elemek kombinációjával készült, egy tanítási nap teljes délelőttjén. Az eredmények azt mutatják, hogy a korábbi életpálya szakaszok nem változtak meg, a kisiskolás korosztály még a sztereotíp-fantázia fázisban él. Céljaik között inkább az öröm és önmegvalósítás, illetve a munkamegosztáson keresztül mások jólétéhez való hozzájárulás jelenik meg, mint a pénzkereset. A dramatizált játékban a jövőbeni technológiák alkalmazása keveredik a múltbeli gazdasági szerkezet jellemzőivel. A nyolcadikos korosztálynál a pályaválasztás kényszere közelebb hozza a reális világot, éa fiú–lány mintázatok sem karakterisztikusan jellemzők, a társadalmi hasznosság előtérbe kerül, de nem jelenik meg az új ipari forradalom képe.The new industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) is fundamentally going to change the world of labour. At the same time a generation split is taking place: the now primary school age students will determine the future labour market. This age is very sensitive, a foundation period for developing skills and norms. Hence what students have in their minds about work is essentially important. This paper is an introductory research, a case study of 8–9 and 14–15 year old students of an average primary school. The action research took place in three sessions of a day, and the method contains a combination of observation, group discussion, interviews, drawing analysis, story writing and drama pedagogy. The results reflect that the pre-school patterns of labour are still determining, the young primary school children still live in the stereotype-fantasy phase. Pleasure and search for identity motivate the choice of profession, rather than money. Future technology mingles with past and present structures in the futures drama performances. The results of the 14–15 age students partly differ: in terms of profession the need to choose secondary schools brings realities more to the forefront, the diverse boy-girl patterns fade away, and the motivation of social use becomes dominant; however, the Industry 4.0 structures are still neglected.

The Genesis and Internal Dynamics of El Salvador's People's Revolutionary Army, 1970–1976

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (01) ◽  
pp. 102-129
Author(s):  
ALBERTO MARTÍN ÁLVAREZ ◽  
EUDALD CORTINA ORERO
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Internal Dynamics ◽  
Internal Coherence ◽  
The 1960S

AbstractUsing interviews with former militants and previously unpublished documents, this article traces the genesis and internal dynamics of the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (People's Revolutionary Army, ERP) in El Salvador during the early years of its existence (1970–6). This period was marked by the inability of the ERP to maintain internal coherence or any consensus on revolutionary strategy, which led to a series of splits and internal fights over control of the organisation. The evidence marshalled in this case study sheds new light on the origins of the armed Salvadorean Left and thus contributes to a wider understanding of the processes of formation and internal dynamics of armed left-wing groups that emerged from the 1960s onwards in Latin America.

Culture and the plasticity of perception

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Lifshitz ◽  
T. M. Luhrmann
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Sensory Experience ◽  
Cultural Learning ◽  
The World

Abstract Culture shapes our basic sensory experience of the world. This is particularly striking in the study of religion and psychosis, where we and others have shown that cultural context determines both the structure and content of hallucination-like events. The cultural shaping of hallucinations may provide a rich case-study for linking cultural learning with emerging prediction-based models of perception.

Dual systems for all: Higher-order, role-based relational reasoning as a uniquely derived feature of human cognition

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel J. Povinelli ◽  
Gabrielle C. Glorioso ◽  
Shannon L. Kuznar ◽  
Mateja Pavlic
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Reasoning ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Important Case ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Relational Reasoning ◽  
Dual Systems ◽  
First Order ◽  
Reasoning System ◽  
Role Based

Abstract Hoerl and McCormack demonstrate that although animals possess a sophisticated temporal updating system, there is no evidence that they also possess a temporal reasoning system. This important case study is directly related to the broader claim that although animals are manifestly capable of first-order (perceptually-based) relational reasoning, they lack the capacity for higher-order, role-based relational reasoning. We argue this distinction applies to all domains of cognition.

Sociocultural memory development research drives new directions in gadgetry science

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Penny Van Bergen ◽  
John Sutton
Keyword(s):  
Episodic Memory ◽  
Autobiographical Memory ◽  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Memory Development ◽  
Development Research ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Cross Cultural Research

Abstract Sociocultural developmental psychology can drive new directions in gadgetry science. We use autobiographical memory, a compound capacity incorporating episodic memory, as a case study. Autobiographical memory emerges late in development, supported by interactions with parents. Intervention research highlights the causal influence of these interactions, whereas cross-cultural research demonstrates culturally determined diversity. Different patterns of inheritance are discussed.

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