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- Faraon, Montathar, 1983-, et al.
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Much more to it : The relation between Facebook usage and self-esteem
- 2014
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE 15th International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration. - Piscataway, NJ, USA : IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (SMC). - 9781479958801 ; , s. 87-92
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this study was to examine closer the conflicting results from previous studies concerning the relation- ship between Facebook use and self-esteem using the Facebook Intensity Scale and Rosenberg’s Self-Esteem Scale (N = 107). In line with some previous studies, our data confirmed that there is a relationship between Facebook usage and self-esteem, but the applied scales allowed a more refined assessment of it. The results showed, after controlling for demographic variables, that participants with low Facebook intensity reported on average higher self-esteem than those who did not use Facebook or those with high Facebook intensity, while those with medium Facebook intensity had significantly higher self-esteem compared to the participants with high Facebook intensity. Future studies should address the underlying causal relations using a time-bound observation method.
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- Faraon, Montathar, 1983-, et al.
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Political campaigning 2.0 : The influence of online news and social networking sites on attitudes and behavior
- 2014
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Ingår i: eJournal of eDemocracy & Open Government. - JeDEM Open Access Online : JEDEM Journal of e-Democracy and Open Government. - 2075-9517. ; 6:3, s. 231-247
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study aimed to examine differences in influence between online news (e.g., New York Times) and social networking sites (e.g., Facebook and Twitter) on attitudes in political campaigns. In a web-based experiment, campaign, polls and election between two fictitious candidates were simulated. Participants’ explicit and implicit attitudes as well as voting behavior were assessed using self-report items and the Implicit Association Test (IAT). The results reveal that information emanating from online news had a significant influence on explicit and implicit attitudes while that of social networking sites did not. Overall, negative items had a stronger impact than positive ones, more so in online news compared to social networking sites. Negative information from either type of media was more likely to change participants’ explicit attitudes in a negative direction and as a consequence also change their vote. Practical implications of the findings and limitations of the study are discussed.
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- Faraon, Montathar, 1983-, et al.
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Positive but skeptical : A study of attitudes towards Internet voting in Sweden
- 2015
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Ingår i: CeDEM Asia 2014. - Münster : Donau-Universität Krems. - 9783902505712 ; , s. 191-205
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study explored the attitudes of a broad sample of politically interested Swedish voters towards Internet voting. A total of 5683 participants completed a web-based survey concerning participation and security aspects of Internet voting. Attitudes towards Internet voting were positive on the whole and the acceptance of participation in democratic elections using Internet voting was spearheaded by: women, groups with relatively short education, the unemployed and the self-employed. Unlike previous studies, it was found that age was not a significant factor in determining the attitudes towards participation in elections by means of Internet voting. Concerning the security challenges of Internet voting, men were more optimistic than women and participants’ confidence in security increased with age and education length.
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- Kaipainen, Mauri, 1957-, et al.
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A Perspectivist Approach to Conceptual Spaces
- 2015
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Ingår i: Applications of Geometric Knowledge Representation. - Dordrecht : Springer. - 9783319150208 ; , s. 245-258
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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- Kaipainen, Mauri, 1957-, et al.
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Analysis and synthesis with a three component inferential system : Augmenting the explanatory scope of conceptual spaces
- 2017
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Ingår i: Artificial Intelligence and Cognition 2016. ; , s. 124-137
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The study introduces a model of analysis and synthesis, respective abductive and deductive reasoning, using the three-component inferential system, which is constituted by a perspective-relative augmentation of Gärdenfors's theory of Conceptual Spaces (CS). A general formulation of Perspective, based on our earlier work, corresponds to prioritization among property dimensions. Instead of assuming one conceptual space as in the CS, a distinction is made between the high-dimensional description of the discourse/domain termed Ontospace, and the two-dimensional perspectival space onto which a Perspectiverelative hierarchical conceptualization is projected, referred to as the Perspectival Space. In this setting, deduction is the inference of Perspective-relative conceptualization of the ontospace, while abduction is the reasoning of the Perspective that accounts for a given conceptualization of the ontospace, given in a form of a target cluster This model is articulated on an abstraction level beyond algorithmic implementation.
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- Kaipainen, Mauri, 1957-, et al.
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Enactive Systems and Enactive Media : Embodied human-machine coupling beyond interfaces
- 2011
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Ingår i: Leonardo. - 0024-094X .- 1530-9282. ; 44:5, s. 433-438
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper proposes the concept of enactive system as an alternative to the standard assumption of the human-computer-interaction and elaborates the idea of content mediation as enactive media. Our system consists of the two elements coupled in a holistic manner by means of bodily and spatial involvement, or enactment. It has two directions and is recursive by nature involving the impact of the technology on the human agent and the effect of the human experience on the technology. Instead of the standard explicit interface in the middle there is an implicit connecting surface, based on unconscious psychophysiological reactions. Our aim is not only to point out an analytic approach to existing media systems, but also to develop radically novel media concepts implied by the concept.
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- Kaipainen, Mauri, 1957-, et al.
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Human-controlled iterative subclustering analysis
- 2017
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Ingår i: Proceedings IEEE BigData 2017. - Boston, MA : IEEE. - 9781538627150 ; , s. 4754-4756
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The accumulation and use of data are rapidly expanding. With it, new kinds of interactions emerge that go beyond traditional data analytics, to the point at which a whole new research area of human-data interaction is has been suggested. Our study reconsiders cluster analysis from this point of view. We aim to redesign the process to be more interactive and transparent for purposes beyond conventional data analysis. We address the core issue of cluster analysis, namely what criteria are to determine the homogeneity of a cluster by means of breaking the algorithm into a sequence of explorative subdivisions proceeding as a human-data dialogue. The system provides the human agent with a heuristic. It is formed by sorting the variables of the data set by descending orthogonality against the variable that was applied as the subdivision criterion of the previous iteration. This allows minimizing redundancy of the analysis while securing distinctions relevant for the analytic intention and contextuality, which go beyond the reach of algorithmic decision. The proposed method constitutes a quick and intuitive access to data mining, facilitating new insights and identifying actionable generalizations.
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- Kaipainen, Mauri, 1957-, et al.
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Seeking for the grasp : Iterative subdivision model of conceptualization
- 2019
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Ingår i: Conceptual spaces. - Cham : Springer. - 9783030127992 - 9783030128005 ; , s. 103-123
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Concepts are fundamental collective constructs of individual items that are capable of abstracting meaningfully homogeneous groupings of phenomena. This capability is a prerequisite for communication and action and gives structure to learning and memory. Our study is aligned with the vast paradigm that assumes embodied cognition, rooted in Merleau-Ponty (Phenomenology of perception (trans: C. Smith). Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1962), seminally articulated by Varela et al. (Embodied mind: cognitive science and human experience. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1991) and existing today in a number of variants that have been reviewed by Wilson (Six views of embodied cognition. Springer. Psychon Bull Rev 9(4):625–636, 2002). We argue that the faculty to conceptualise may spring from the ability of homo habilis to manage concrete actions in space and time, and we propose that at the root level, ‘grasping concepts’ in a cognitive perspective may have a lot to do with the process of ‘grasping objects’ from an operational position.
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- Normak, Peeter, et al.
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An Ecological Approach to Learning Dynamics
- 2012
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Ingår i: Educational Technology & Society. - : IFETS. - 1176-3647 .- 1436-4522. ; 15:3, s. 262-274
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- New approaches to emergent learner-directed learning design can be strengthened with a theoretical framework that considers learning as a dynamic process. We propose an approach that models a learning process using a set of spatial concepts: learning space, position of a learner, niche, perspective, step, path, direction of a step and step gradient. A learning process is presented as a path within a niche (or between niches) in a learning space, which consists of a certain number of steps leading the learner from the initial position to a target position in the dynamically changing learning space. When deciding on steps, the learner can take guidance from learning paths that are effective from a viewpoint of the learning community.Copyright by the International Forum of Educational Technology & Society (IFETS)
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- Rytkönen, Paulina, 1961-, et al.
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Utmaningar och möjligheter för små och medelstora företag i Stockholms skärgård
- 2019
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Denna rapport syftar till att inventera de utmaningar och möjligheter som företagarna i Stockholms skärgård står inför. Rapporten har skrivits inom ramen för Interreg-projektet Archipelago Business Development och omfattar en inventering av skärgårdsföretagarnas behov, utmaningar och möjligheter i Stockholms skärgård.Undersökningen har bland annat gjorts genom gruppintervjuer med företagare på Dalarö, Ornö, Sandhamn och Utö. Därutöver har enskilda intervjuer genomförts med företagare i fem olika kommuner. Geografiskt fördelas urvalet på Stockholms södra och mellersta skärgård.
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- Tikka, Pia, 1961-, et al.
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Enactive cinema paves way for understanding complex real-time social interaction in neuroimaging experiments
- 2012
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Ingår i: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. - : Frontiers Media SA. - 1662-5161. ; 6
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We outline general theoretical and practical implications of what we promote as enactive cinema for the neuroscientific study of online socio-emotional interaction. In a real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging (rt-fMRI) setting, participants are immersed in cinematic experiences that simulate social situations. While viewing, their physiological reactions - including brain responses - are tracked, representing implicit and unconscious experiences of the on-going social situations. These reactions, in turn, are analysed in real-time and fed back to modify the cinematic sequences they are viewing while being scanned. Due to the engaging cinematic content, the proposed setting focuses on living-by in terms of shared psycho-physiological epiphenomena of experience rather than active coping in terms of goal-oriented motor actions. It constitutes a means to parametrically modify stimuli that depict social situations and their broader environmental contexts. As an alternative to studying the variation of brain responses as a function of a priori fixed stimuli, this method can be applied to survey the range of stimuli that evoke similar responses across participants at particular brain regions of interest.
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- Tikka, Pia, et al.
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Phenomenological Considerations on Time Consciousness under Neurocinematic Search Light
- 2014
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Ingår i: Cinéma & cie : international film studies journal. - 2036-461X. ; XIV:22-23
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Film narratives are intrinsically time-dependent designs. This article proposes a model of narrative nowness, based on Husserl's concepts of retention and protention on one hand, and Francisco Varela's neurophenomenological exploration of time consciousness on the other, relating this further to narrative experience and its neural epiphenomena. Only recently has brain research been equipped with the possibility of dealing with temporal frames relevant for time consciousness in the scope of whole narratives. The study of cinema using neuroscientific methods and insights is referred to as neurocinematics. We promote neurocinematics as a complementary method of traditional film research, rather than an approach of brain sciences in general. Neurocinematic methods may provide film studies with new tools for re-evaluating established filmmaking conventions and developing new ways to study, for instance, the film viewer's experience and related aspects of time consciousness.
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