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Autism, musicality, and empathy: Through the lens of first-person accounts
Get PDFOver the past two decades, autism research has seen a gradual shift from deficit-focused theories to models informed by the neurodiversity paradigm. Theoretical developments such as the double empathy problem, Monotropism and Autistic Flow Theories offer nuanced, non-pathologizing understandings of autistic cognition, sociality, and engagement. Within this framework, music emerges as a compelling lens through which to examine autistic experience. Empirical studies, based on first-person accounts, have shown how music facilitates emotional regulation, social connection, and personal development among autistic individuals. In highlighting the emotionally rich and socially meaningful dimensions of musical engagement this work challenges simplistic constructs of empathy and sociality in autism
Interactive Machine Learning for Movement Interaction in VR
Get PDFFull body movement is a powerful way of interacting with virtual reality experiences. Not only does it reproduce real world interactions, it can also have positive effects on emotions. However, designing effective movement interaction can be hard, as our knowledge about how we move is tacit and embodied, meaning that we can move without knowing exactly how we make those movements. This makes it hard to explicitly program movement interaction. Interactive Machine Learning (IML) is an alternative approach in which movement interaction is designed and implementing by providing examples of movement. This paper presents IntearctML, a movement interaction design platform based on IML, as well as a case study of using it to create a VR experience called Dolittle VR
Bare Fridges and Burnt Tortillas: Conflictual Moments in the Making of Coupledom
Get PDFThis article investigates how conflicts emerge and unfold among newly cohabiting couples during the daily practices of making and sharing dinner. Adopting a ‘moments approach’, findings from an ethnographic study involving 12 couples reveal how conflictual moments emerge from clashes between individuals’ dispositions regarding responsibilities (who does what), standards (what is appropriate) and techniques (how things are done). Clashes are reflected upon through a process of zooming in and zooming out where conflicting gendered, classed and cultural dispositions emerge. At the conceptual level, conflictual moments are identified as epistemic and affective scenarios revealing broader structural and socio-cultural inequalities permeating domestic life of heterosexual couples
One Lone Item: Assessing loneliness with a single-item direct measure
Get PDFAcross the most widely-used loneliness scales, the words ‘loneliness’ and ‘lonely’ are commonly avoided due to concerns about bias. These efforts, although made out of an abundance of caution, may have undermined scales’ abilities to assess loneliness accurately. In this article, we validate the One-item Loneliness scale (1iL; “I often feel lonely”), and show using multi-rater data (N = 352 people, recruited from Prolific) that it induces no more bias than popular indirect scales. The 1iL had retest reliability superior to some short multi-item scales (rtt = .74) and comparable cross-rater agreement (rCRA = .39). Using multi-rater adjustment, we find near-perfect convergence with the Three-Item Loneliness Scale (rtrue = .97), the most popular short measure of loneliness. We also find discriminant validity from a sister construct assessing social disconnection. Contrary to popular belief, loneliness is unidimensional, can be assessed directly, and is distinct from judgements about one’s social circle
Cross-Cultural Adaptation of the Brazilian Portuguese Version of the Goldsmiths Dance Sophistication Index (Gold-DSI)
Get PDFBACKGROUND: Dance is an emerging research topic in cognitive neuroscience, education, psychology, and as an intervention for neurodegenerative diseases and mental health conditions.
AIM: This study developed and validated a Brazilian Portuguese version of the Goldsmiths Dance Sophistication Index (Gold-DSI), a psychometric tool designed to assess individual differences in dance experience.
METHODS: The study was conducted in two phases. In the first phase, we translated and culturally adapted the English-language Gold-DSI. In the second phase, we validated the Brazilian Portuguese Gold-DSI for the Brazilian population, evaluating its dimensional structure, internal consistency, and test-retest reliability.
RESULTS: A total of 289 participants completed the Brazilian Portuguese Gold-DSI (Gold-DSI-B), and 75 participants completed the same tool again four weeks later. The results demonstrated good to excellent internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and construct validity.
INTERPRETATION: The Gold-DSI-B is a reliable, brief tool for assessing individual differences in both participatory and observational dance experience. It also provides valuable insight into the role of both dancing and observing dance within the Brazilian cultural context
Is an Anti-Fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence Possible?
Get PDFAn interview of Dan McQuillan by Justin Hendrix, CEO and Editor of Tech Policy Press.
"What is necessary to develop a future that is less hospitable to authoritarianism and, indeed, to fascism? How do we build collective power against authoritarian forms of corporate and state power? Is an alternative form of computing possible?
Putting Trust to the Test: Making Sense of Human–Machine Interactions on TikTok
Get PDFPeople’s interaction with online content is increasingly facilitated by intelligent user interfaces and artificial agents. In this article, I explore this shift by drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with users of the TikTok app. More specifically, I write on their interactions with the TikTok algorithm as a form of human–machine interaction and through the lens of trust. Along concrete ethnographic data, this article lays out the multifaceted process in which participants negotiated trust in the TikTok algorithm as an interaction partner in their everyday pursuits for relaxation and entertainment. Understanding trust as something deeply relational, mediating the position that one takes to another, this article outlines the constitutive embodied and affective dimensions of trust. It shows how participants dealt with feelings of their trust in the TikTok algorithm being put to the test, as well as how they negotiated their distance and closeness to it accordingly. By doing so, this article will demonstrate how trust functions a key mediator of meaningful human–machine interaction – shaping not just meaningful outcomes but also meaningful processes of interaction. From this angle, this article closes with an argument for research on the foundational role of trust in human–machine interaction, specifically in ways that look beyond the cognitive processes of judging trust and broadening the scope towards the material and cultural contexts in which people trust others
Resolving the “sustainability paradox”: a bibliometric and topic modeling analysis of sustainable entrepreneurship and sustainable consumption
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This study addresses the enduring “sustainability paradox” – the tension between entrepreneurial and growth-oriented practices, and the principles of sustainable consumption. This study aims to examine how these competing initiatives can be strategically aligned. Using the bibliometric methodology, this study analyzes extant literature on sustainable consumption and sustainable entrepreneurship to uncover similarities, distinctions and future research trajectories at the areas of intersection.
Design/methodology/approach
Using the Scopus database, the authors extracted 603 articles for sustainable consumption and 303 for sustainable entrepreneurship, published over the period 2018 and 2023. The analysis included the most cited papers, sources of publications, bibliographic coupling and topic modeling.
Findings
Bibliographic coupling resulted in the discovery of seven clusters in sustainable consumption and eight in sustainable entrepreneurship, shedding light on various aspects including sustainable business models, entrepreneurial intention for sustainable entrepreneurship, motivations for sustainable entrepreneurship as well as determinants of green purchase intention, psychological impact on sustainable consumption, theoretical perspectives and sustainable consumption through sharing economy.
Research limitations/implications
This study concludes by outlining critical implications and proposes avenues for future research on sustainable business challenges and providing a framework depicting the pathway from sustainable entrepreneurship to sustainable consumption by bringing clarity to the fields of the study.
Originality/value
The originality of this study lies in the exploration of the intersection of sustainable entrepreneurship and sustainable consumption which has been discussed in isolation in the previous literature
Kate Marshall, Novels by Aliens: Weird Tales and the Twenty-First Century
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Red Threads
No full textCatalogue essay for Guilty! Guilty! Guilty!: towards a feminist criminology, Kreuzberg Kunstraum, Berlin (invited by the curator Sonja Lau)