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Dialogue through the eyes: Exploring teachers’ focus of attention during educational dialogue
2020
Abstract This study explored teachers’ focus of attention during educational dialogue. Teachers’ focus of attention was recorded in 54 Grade 1 classrooms using Tobii Pro Glasses 2 mobile eye-tracking device. From the video recordings, episodes of educational dialogue were identified and categorised by quality. Teacher’s focus of attention on students was examined during the dialogue episodes. Results showed that teachers allocated their attention relatively unevenly among the students. More students got visual attention during high-quality educational dialogue than during moderate-quality dialogue. This study provides insight into the quality of educational dialogue by combining assessment …
At the temporary-permanent interface: Overcoming knowledge boundaries with boundary objects
2021
Abstract There is no shortage of literature on managing complex projects. However, we lack an understanding of projects in which the complexity goes beyond technical, financial and time-related challenges. We report on two Nordic business school accreditation projects, where the major management challenge is the knowledge boundaries institutionalized deep into the ethos of the schools. We focus on the project team’s use of boundary objects – a communication device across social groups – to expose and overcome knowledge boundaries materializing at temporary-permanent interface. We identify three progressively more challenging boundary object uses: informative, interactive and integrative. Co…
Forms of Animality: The Dog
2018
Animals are not the object of zoosemiotics as discussed here, neither is their language nor any other system of signs that affects them directly as living creatures that communicate, but the forms of animality, forms through which the concept of animal itself is socially constructed and transformed over time. Now, if there is one place in which such forms are plain to see, it is in those areas that focus on their nutrition. Looking at feeding animals as a semiotic activity, this paper wants to focus on what I call a nutritional pact, an implicit agreement that binds humans and animals, and that is being continuously negotiated by cultures. A relationship that advertising deeply contributes …
Teaching Language Engineering Using MPS
2021
At universities, computer language handling is most often taught with a focus on compiler theory. However, in practical applications, domain-specific languages (DSLs) are much more important. DSLs implement model-driven technology in an understandable way, as models can be expressed easily using DSLs. One interesting domain for DSLs in this context is language handling itself, and many current tools for language handling are model-driven and based on meta-models. This chapter connects compiler theory and meta-modelling within a university course about language handling. The course features the relevant theory and uses MPS as a practical tool. We show how MPS is used in the course and discus…
Start Making Sense
2018
In this second section, focus will be given the Kristiansand Roundtable Conference and the dialogues and data that this book builds upon. Throughout this part, extracts and quotations will be taken from conferences to exemplify and illustrate issues that will be further discussed in the text. The Kristiansand Roundtable Conference provides a rare opportunity to follow the difficult discussions among key stakeholders within and outside the music industries, as they try to make sense of the current situation, the different options on the table, as well as the opposing and conflicting agendas. The dialogues and discussions display a complex matrix of different interests and agendas, illuminati…
A pre-processing and network analysis of GPS tracking data
2020
Global Positioning System (GPS) devices afford the opportunity to collect accurate data on unit movements from temporal and spatial perspectives. With a special focus on GPS technology in travel surveys, this paper proposes: (1) two algorithms for the pre-processing of GPS data in order to deal with outlier identification and missing data imputation; (2) a clustering approach to recover the main points of interest from GPS trajectories; and (3) a weighted-directed network, which incorporates the most relevant characteristics of the GPS trajectories at an aggregate level. A simulation study shows the goodness-of-fit of the imputation data algorithm and the robustness of the clustering algori…
Context-Aware Visual Exploration of Molecular Datab
2006
Facilitating the visual exploration of scientific data has received increasing attention in the past decade or so. Especially in life science related application areas the amount of available data has grown at a breath taking pace. In this paper we describe an approach that allows for visual inspection of large collections of molecular compounds. In contrast to classical visualizations of such spaces we incorporate a specific focus of analysis, for example the outcome of a biological experiment such as high throughout screening results. The presented method uses this experimental data to select molecular fragments of the underlying molecules that have interesting properties and uses the res…
Dynamic Diagrams: A Composition Alternative
2012
A major problem that learners face in comprehending animated diagrams is in decomposing the presented information into a form that furnishes appropriate raw material for building high quality mental models. This paper proposes an alternative to existing design approaches that shifts the prime focus from the nature of the external representation to the internal composition activity learners engage in during mental model construction.
Guest Editorial: Advanced Motion Control for Mechatronic Applications With Precision and Force Requirements
2021
The articles in this special section focus on advanced motion control for mechatronic applications with precision and force requirements. Motion control is concerned with all the issues arising in the control of the movement of a physical device. This means that MC is not limited to the use of proper devices for sensing and actuation, in addition to suitable control algorithms, but it also deals with all the possible interactions of the controlled devices with the environment. This is the most remarkable aspect of MC, nowadays deployed in numerous mechatronic systems, especially those which are dynamically acting in heterogenous, time-varying, active, and human-accessible environments. With…
Impacto de la enfermedad de Huntington en la familia
2012
Se describen las alteraciones estructurales y emocionales de las familias con uno o más miembros enfermos de Huntington, en función de los diferentes síntomas, del afectado (descendientes, progenitores) y de las diferentes etapas. Consideramos que los servicios de ayuda a la familia deben estar compuestos por profesionales expertos en las necesidades específicas de esta enfermedad y que deben ayudar a planificar y diseñar las ayudas de manera individual, adecuada y flexible. Esta ayuda debe centrarse en superar el impacto de la enfermedad, en proporcionar información relevante, en buscar soluciones prácticas, en dar apoyo emocional, en diseñar los cuidados necesarios en cada caso y etapa, y…