Playing Good? — Environmental Communication through Games and Simulations

2015 ◽  
pp. 197-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian A. Klöckner
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Communication ◽  
Games And Simulations

Pharmacology Issues Related to Dementia Syndrome of Depression in Elderly Residents of Long-Term Care Settings

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-69
Author(s):  
Angel L. Ball ◽  
Adina S. Gray
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Environmental Communication ◽  
Pharmacological Intervention ◽  
Team Approach ◽  
Discussion Paper ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Anticholinergic Medications ◽  
Inappropriate Treatment ◽  
Dementia Syndrome

Pharmacological intervention for depressive symptoms in institutionalized elderly is higher than the population average. Among the patients on such medications are those with a puzzling mix of symptoms, diagnosed as “dementia syndrome of depression,” formerly termed “pseudodementia”. Cognitive-communicative changes, potentially due to medications, complicate the diagnosis even further. This discussion paper reviews the history of the terminology of “pseudodementia,” and examines the pharmacology given as treatment for depressive symptoms in the elderly population that can affect cognition and communication. Clinicians can reduce the risk of misdiagnosis or inappropriate treatment by having an awareness of potential side effects, including decreased attention, memory, and reasoning capacities, particularly due to some anticholinergic medications. A team approach to care should include a cohesive effort directed at caution against over-medication, informed management of polypharmacology, enhancement of environmental/communication supports and quality of life, and recognizing the typical nature of some depressive signs in elderly institutionalized individuals.

Reports of the Workshops Held at the 2019 AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

AI Magazine ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 67-78
Author(s):  
Guy Barash ◽  
Mauricio Castillo-Effen ◽  
Niyati Chhaya ◽  
Peter Clark ◽  
Huáscar Espinoza ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Cyber Security ◽  
Question Answering ◽  
Intent Recognition ◽  
Affective Content ◽  
Learning Plan ◽  
Dialog System ◽  
Affective Content Analysis ◽  
Games And Simulations

The workshop program of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence’s 33rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-19) was held in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Sunday and Monday, January 27–28, 2019. There were fifteen workshops in the program: Affective Content Analysis: Modeling Affect-in-Action, Agile Robotics for Industrial Automation Competition, Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence Safety, Dialog System Technology Challenge, Engineering Dependable and Secure Machine Learning Systems, Games and Simulations for Artificial Intelligence, Health Intelligence, Knowledge Extraction from Games, Network Interpretability for Deep Learning, Plan, Activity, and Intent Recognition, Reasoning and Learning for Human-Machine Dialogues, Reasoning for Complex Question Answering, Recommender Systems Meet Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning in Games, and Reproducible AI. This report contains brief summaries of the all the workshops that were held.

Categorizing Professionals’ Perspectives on Environmental Communication with Implications for Graduate Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Karen L. Akerlof ◽  
Taryn Bromser-Kloeden ◽  
Kristin Timm ◽  
Katherine E. Rowan ◽  
James L. Olds ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Education ◽  
Environmental Communication

scholarly journals Analyzing Latency-Aware Self-Adaptation Using Stochastic Games and Simulations

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Cámara ◽  
Gabriel A. Moreno ◽  
David Garlan ◽  
Bradley Schmerl
Keyword(s):  
Stochastic Games ◽  
Self Adaptation ◽  
Games And Simulations

Deep mapping for environmental communication design

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-19
Author(s):  
Shannon Butts ◽  
Madison Jones
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Environmental Communication ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Environmental Advocacy ◽  
Locative Media ◽  
Digital Maps ◽  
Communication Design ◽  
Prompt Action ◽  
Share Information

This article shares lessons from designing <u>EcoTour</u>, a multimedia environmental advocacy project in a state park, and it describes theoretical, practical, and pedagogical connections between locative media and community-engaged design. While maps can help share information about places, people, and change, they also limit how we visualize complex stories. Using deep mapping, and blending augmented reality with digital maps, EcoTour helps people understand big problems like climate change within the context of their local community. This article demonstrates the rhetorical potential of community-engaged design strategies to affect users, prompt action, and create more democratic discourse in environmental communication.

Towards a sensory politics of the Anthropocene: Exploring activist-artistic approaches to politicizing air pollution

2021 ◽  
pp. 239965442098160
Author(s):  
Friederike Landau ◽  
Alexandra Toland
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Environmental Communication ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Sensory Experiences ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Clean Air ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Antagonistic Potential

In this paper, we investigate five activist-artistic approaches to argue for a sensory politics of the Anthropocene. Our aim is to highlight the affective and speculative potentials of art by examining how artists engage with the senses to make air pollution and its political implications visible, tangible, or otherwise experiential. The paper touches on widerreaching discourses on the politics of sensing, sensible politics, and sensory studies. Rather than situating air pollution within a policy framework, such as that of the international sustainable development goals, we locate our arguments within recent scholarship on postpolitics and the Anthropocene. Despite its epistemological slipperiness, we consider the Anthropocene to be a potent heuristic as well as a rich resource of ideas, data, and collaborative and antagonistic potential for artists working on issues of air pollution. The five case studies are each grounded in an explicit engagement with at least one of the five basic senses and include works by Amy Balkin, Hanna Husberg, Zane Cerpina and Stahl Stenslie, Lingling Zhang, Kitchen Budapest and Baltan Laboratories (NL). Clustered into three lines of argumentation, we demonstrate the ways in which these works contribute to the politicization of air: first, by framing air as a contested common good that problematizes the commodification of clean air; second, by integrating artistic research and environmental communication strategies; and third, by providing sensory experiences of the complicated constellations of agency and perception in the interscalar phenomenon of air pollution. Although our analysis is not exhaustive, three particularities could be identified in the works: an openness to other forms of knowledge and communication; a potent critique of the Anthropocene; and a radical questioning of ‘the political’. In conclusion, we argue that art can mobilize a sense of urgency and empowerment towards a multi-sensory politics of the Anthropocene.

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