scholarly journals Changing Things so (Almost) Everything Stays the Same

i-com ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 229-252
Author(s):  
Mateusz Dolata ◽  
Simon Schubiger ◽  
Doris Agotai ◽  
Gerhard Schwabe
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Reality ◽  
Physical Nature ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Advisory Services ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
Potential Alternative ◽  
Technical Solutions ◽  
Design Ideas ◽  
Alternative Solutions

Abstract The deployment of mixed reality systems in professional settings demands adaptation of the physical environment and practices. However, technology-driven changes to the environment are problematic in some contexts. Specifically, face-to-face advisory services rely on scripted material routines using specific tools. This manuscript explores challenges encountered during the development of LivePaper, a mixed-reality system for supporting financial advisory services. First, the article presents a range of design requirements derived from existing literature and multiple years of research experience concerning advisory services and physical collaborative environments. Second, it discusses technical and design challenges that emerged when building LivePaper along with those requirements. Third, the article describes a range of technical solutions and new design ideas implemented in a working system to mitigate the encountered problems. It explores potential alternative solutions and delivers empirical or conceptual arguments for the choices made. The manuscript concludes with implications for the advisory services, the systems used to support such encounters, and specific technical guidance for the developers of mixed reality solutions in institutional settings. Overall, the article advances the discourse on the application of technology in advisory services, the use of mixed-reality systems in professional environments, and the physical nature of collaboration.

Localizing power and solidarity: Pronoun alternation at an all-female police station and a feminist crisis intervention center in Brazil

2003 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 351-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANA CRISTINA OSTERMANN
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Crisis Intervention ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Police Station ◽  
Person Pronoun ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
Patterns Of Use ◽  
Preference Organization ◽  
The Social

This article brings the study of language to the social phenomenon of gender-related violence as it is currently being dealt with in institutional settings. It investigates the social significance of 2nd person pronoun variation and alternation in 26 professional-victim interactions in two parallel institutions created to address violence against women in Brazil: a police station with an all-female staff, and a feminist crisis intervention center. A quantitative analysis of patterns of use is complemented by a qualitative analysis of the interactional strategies of 2nd person pronoun alternation in the two settings. Pronoun switching is innovatively analyzed under the theory of code alternation developed by Auer 1995. The qualitative analysis demonstrates how pronoun alternation functions as a contextualization cue in face-to-face interactions. In particular, it shows the different ways in which pronoun alternation is used to contextualize phenomena such as preference organization and changes in frames and footings, and locally to exercise power and/or solidarity.

Fieldwork in Schools: The Reciprocity of Bias

1980 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-278
Author(s):  
Judith L. Kapferer
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Research Paradigms ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
Oriented Research

This paper contains a plea for sociologists of education to utilise qualitative research methods, particularly fieldwork, in order to advance our understanding of the motives and meanings of actors in educational contexts. Some of the major problems of conducting fieldwork in schools—problems of time and working hours, conflicting research paradigms, interpersonal relations in institutional settings and financial and moral support—are discussed. Examples are drawn from the writer's research experience in three schools in Adelaide, South Australia and analysed within a conceptual framework which stresses the importance of the establishment and maintenance of inter-subjective understandings for the conduct of action-oriented research in schools. Some solutions to the problems of the reciprocal bias which too often exists between researchers and research subjects are proffered in the belief that fieldwork, as a method, provides a sound basis for overcoming such problems.

Parkinson's disease and the COVID-19 pandemic: responding to patient need with nurse-led telemedicine

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 131-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue Thomas ◽  
Francesca Mancini ◽  
Louise Ebenezer ◽  
Jane Price ◽  
Tania Carta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Parkinson’S Disease ◽  
Parkinson's Disease ◽  
Patient Engagement ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Alternative Solutions ◽  
Treatment And Diagnosis

With the COVID-19 pandemic limiting face-to-face interaction, the drive for innovation and the need to develop alternative solutions to patient engagement, treatment and diagnosis has been suddenly accelerated. Sue Thomas and national and international colleagues outline a novel technological initiative launched in Italy to cope with the pressures of the pandemic, providing inspiration for similar future projects in the UK

The Client-Supplier E-Relationship Management

2011 ◽  
pp. 1082-1102
Author(s):  
Marco Tagliavini ◽  
Elisa Ghiringhelli
Keyword(s):  
Business Strategy ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Customer Relationship ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Face Negotiation ◽  
Ship Management ◽  
Order Management ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Technical Solutions

The case study presents an overview of e-business activities within the European B2B office furniture segment, analyzing the scenarios faced by one of the top companies in this segment, hereafter fictitiously referred to as “Cadiac.”Focus is on challenges and issues faced by this company in the last five years within the client-supplier e-relation-ship management: from the use of Internet-based technology to improve the information exchange with clients and dealers to the development of customer relationship manage-ment applications. The present overview explores:market peculiarities and their impact on e-business strategy, challenges, and issues, the different technical solutions adopted through real client case studies, future challenges and opportunities. Of course, the e-business channel is leveraged by Cadiac as an additional channel to the traditional face-to-face negotiation, and in any case is replacing it. The purpose, on the contrary, is to reinforce the business model (sales are driven through a dealer network) by offering a way to reduce complexity and facilitate order management.

scholarly journals Development of a Heat-Illness Screening Instrument Using the Delphi Panel Technique

2011 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 176-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsey E. Eberman ◽  
Michelle A. Cleary
Keyword(s):  
Delphi Study ◽  
Screening Instrument ◽  
Delphi Panel ◽  
Heat Illness ◽  
Clinical Expertise ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Expert Opinions ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Strongly Agree

Abstract Context: Exertional heat illness (EHI) is the third leading cause of death among athletes, but with preparticipation screening, risk factors can be identified, and some EHIs can be prevented. Objective: To establish content validity of the Heat Illness Index Score (HIIS), a 10-item screening instrument designed to identify athletes at risk for EHI during a preparticipation examination. Design: Delphi study. Setting: The Delphi technique included semistructured face-to-face or telephone interviews and included electronic questionnaires administered via e-mail. Patients or Other Participants: Six individuals with extensive research experience and/or clinical expertise in EHI participated as expert panelists. Main Outcome Measure(s): We used a Delphi panel technique (3 rounds) to evaluate the HIIS with the consensus of expert opinions. For round 1, we conducted face-to-face interviews with the panelists. For round 2, we solicited panelists' feedback of the transcribed data to ensure trustworthiness, then provided the participants with the revised HIIS and a questionnaire eliciting their levels of agreement for each revision from the previous round on a visual analog scale (11.4 cm) with extreme indicators of strongly disagree and strongly agree. We calculated the mean and SD for each revision and accepted when the mean was greater than 7.6 cm (agree) and the SD still permitted a positive response (>5.7 cm), suggesting consensus. For round 3, we instructed participants to indicate their levels of agreement with each final, revised item and their levels of agreement with the entire instrument on a 4-point Likert scale (1 = strongly disagree, 4 = strongly agree). Results: In round 1, panelists supported all 10 items but requested various revisions. In round 2, 16.3% (7 of 43) revisions were rejected, and 2 revisions were modified. In round 3, 100% of panelists reported agreeing (n = 3 of 6) or strongly agreeing (n = 3 of 6) with the final instrument. Conclusions: Panelists were able to achieve consensus and validated the content of the HIIS, as well as the instrument itself. Implementation and further analysis are necessary to effectively identify the diagnostic accuracy of the HIIS.

Comparative Effectiveness of Mixed Reality-Based Virtual Environments in Collaborative Design

2011 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 284-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiangyu Wang ◽  
Phillip S. Dunston
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Environments ◽  
Error Detection ◽  
Collaborative Design ◽  
Comparative Effectiveness ◽  
Mixed Reality ◽  
Detection Task ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Performance Time ◽  
Design Error ◽  
Communication Space

This paper presents two mixed-reality (MR) environments that provide alternative mediums that allow groups of people to share the same work and communication space in face-to-face and remote manners. Two experiments were executed to test the capabilities of the two MR systems in realistic environment and collaborative tasks against prevalent methods. Results indicated that the two MR systems significantly reduced the performance time for the collaborative design error detection task. Results also indicated less mental effort for the MR systems, suggesting that some of the mental interpretation for the error detection task is offloaded to the MR systems.

Reflexive Zeit- und Raumkonstruktionen und die Rolle des Global Buzz auf Messeveranstaltungen

2009 ◽  
Vol 53 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Schuldt ◽  
Harald Bathelt
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
Knowledge Flows ◽  
Time Geography ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Communication Ecology ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
Learning By Observation ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Economic Interaction ◽  
Information And Communication

Reflexive time-space constructions and the role of global buzz at trade fairs. International trade fairs bring together agents from all over the world and create temporary spaces for presentation and interaction. Within specific institutional settings, participants not only acquire knowledge through face-to-face communication with other agents, they also obtain information by observing and systematically monitoring other participants. This paper analyzes trade fairs from the perspective of time-geography as reflexive time-space constructions which enable economic interaction within well-defined, spatially and temporally bounded places. Temporary face-to-face contact and the physical co-presence of global communities at these events establish a particular information and communication ecology, referred to as global buzz. This paper aims to analyze the constituting components of global buzz and to dismantle the complexity of this phenomenon in a multi-dimensional way. Participants at international trade fairs benefit from intensified decentralized knowledge flows in the form of learning by interacting and learning by observation. As such, these events establish central nodes in the global political economy through which knowledge is created and exchanged at a distance.

scholarly journals Learning in COVID-19 Era, Responses of Students and Lectures

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Dina Rafidiyah ◽  
Jamiatul Hamidah ◽  
Rahmatya Nurmeidina
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Online Lectures ◽  
Internet Networks ◽  
Assessment Procedures ◽  
The University ◽  
Alternative Solutions ◽  
Or Applications

When the COVID-19 pandemic occurred, face-to-face classes at the University of Muhammadiyah Banjarmasin switched to the online method. Changing habits from direct learning to online learning requires adjustment and habituation, both for lecturers and students. This study aims to describe (1) the obstacles faced by Mathematics and Indonesian students in conducting online lectures; (2) online applications are used by mathematics and Indonesian language lecturers, including assessment procedures (attendance, assignments, and examinations); and (3) obtained solutions to overcome various obstacles to online learning so that learning objectives can be achieved. This research method is a descriptive research methodology. Data obtained through Google Form. The participants are 44 students and 10 lecturers. The results showed that student complaints against online learning were limited internet networks, limited quota, the large number of assignments given by lecturers, and a lack of understanding of the material presented by the lecturers. While the lecturer's strategy in assessing students online is carried out by combining several supporting media or applications. Some of the alternative solutions offered are (1) an agreement between lecturers and students on what methods and media to use in online lectures; (2) opening opportunities to communicate openly between lecturers and students to avoid misunderstanding of the material presented, assignments and so on; (3) the integration of media and applications according to the subjects being taught; and (4) the making of exam questions is more focused on students' understanding so as to minimize the possibility of students to cheat.

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