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Exploring the Cognitive and Emotional Impact of Deceptive Patterns: An EEG, Eye-Tracking, and Sentiment Analysis of User Experience
Get PDFThis study investigates the cognitive and emotional impacts of specific ”Deceptive Patterns” in user interface design on well-known online platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Spotify, Salesforce, Eventbrite, and PayPal. The focus is on two types of deceptive patterns, “hard to cancel” and “hidden subscription” practices. Employing an integrated methodology of electroencephalogram (EEG), eye-tracking, and sentiment analysis, this research analyzes how these patterns influence user behaviour, attention, and motional responses. The study utilized EEG to measure cognitive load as users interacted with “hard to cancel” interfaces revealing that these platforms increase cognitive demands, inducing greater mental effort and frustration. Eye-tracking data demonstrated that platforms with more transparent mechanisms effectively captured and held user attention on the Terms and Conditions as the key elements, thereby fostering user trust and enhancing transparency. Sentiment analysis further assessed users’ emotional responses, underscoring the positive association between transparent interfaces and user satisfaction. This research highlights the importance of ethical design practices that prioritize user autonomy and transparency, offering a unique methodological contribution through the combined use of EEG, eye-tracking, and sentiment analysis to comprehensively capture cognitive and emotional responses
Review: Re-imagining Independence in Contemporary Greek Theatre and Performance by Philip Hager, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024, 82 pp., £17 (paperback), ISBN: 9781009250573
No full textExploring Barriers to and Drivers of Participatory Arts Engagement in Early Adolescence
Get PDFParticipatory arts engagement is argued to afford an array of prosocial and positive wellbeing outcomes across the lifespan. However, young people may face barriers to engagement that hinder access to the arts’ putative benefits. We explored the barriers to participatory arts engagement that early adolescents face and the extent to which wellbeing levels are associated with the perception of such barriers. We also explored associations between adolescents’ individual differences in personality, curiosity and wellbeing and their relative interest in different types of art activities. Participants completed questionnaires that measured their perceived barriers to engagement and their individual differences in personality, curiosity, and well-being. They also completed items measuring their interest in taking up a list of arts opportunities that varied in terms of affordance for solitary creativity, performing to an audience, or working with others in a group. Results showed a key barrier to arts engagement to be related to motivation. Specifically, participants reported relatively low levels of desire and drive to engage. Critically, however, we found a relationship between participants’ interest in taking up particular arts opportunities and their patterns of personality and curiosity. Finally, our data revealed low wellbeing to be associated with reduced interest in arts activities involving performing to an audience and working with others. Taken together, our results speak to the potential relevance - if art engagement’s putative benefits are to be exploited - of tailoring arts opportunities to young people’s personalities and interests, and of facilitating entry points for young people with poorer wellbeing
Insight-FakeNet: Explainable AI for Motive Analysis in News Dissemination and Youth Online Harm Mitigation
Get PDFUnderstanding the motives behind news dissemination is essential in today’s digital age to ensure media transparency and trust. While extensive research has focused on detecting fake news, limited attention has been given to the computational analysis of the underlying motives driving news propagation. This paper introduces Insight-FakeNet, an Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) model that leverages Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to classify and interpret the motives behind news dissemination. Utilizing the MIND-Set dataset, a re-annotated version of widely used fake news datasets with motive-specific labels, Insight-FakeNet identifies motives such as political influence, financial gain, entertainment, propaganda, and policy-driven agendas. The model incorporates TF-IDF-based feature extraction and evaluates several tree ensemble methods, with LightGBM achieving an F1 score of 0.92, outperforming other approaches. To ensure interpretability, the model integrates Local Interpretable Model-agnostic Explanations (LIME), offering insights
into key linguistic features that influence classification decisions. The findings demonstrate the model's capability to computationally analyse and explain diverse motives in news content, aiding stakeholders such as policymakers, youth online safety practitioners, journalists, and AI practitioners in fostering trust and accountability in media systems and mitigating online harms among young audiences. This research bridges gaps in motive analysis and contributes to advancing explainable AI applications in computational language processing, with direct implications for youth online harm mitigation
Towards an Integrative Framework for Distributed Work Design: A Multi-Technique Bibliometric Review
Get PDFConsiderable challenges arise for managers and human resource development professionals while designing non-traditional (distributed) work arrangements that ensure productivity and foster the continuous learning and growth of employees. In this paper, we thus explore, analyze, synthesize, and systematically present the main insights emerging from the intersection of distributed work (DW) and work design domains. Specifically, an overlap approach to a multi-technique bibliometric review was adopted and a DW design framework established. The proposed framework unifies, corroborates, and extends existing conceptual models, thereby: (1) improving understanding of the current conceptual landscape; and (2) identifying promising future research directions. The paper also offers practical advice on how to successfully introduce and align DW arrangements with corporate-wide goals, human resource policies, and employee development priorities
"Madama Butterfly": Prospettive occidentali e giapponesi a confronto
No full textQuesto articolo riguarda la Madama Butterfly di Giacomo Puccini da prospettive non solo occidentali ma anche giapponesi. tracce i contatti storici fra il Giappone e l’Europa per capire il background culturale e politico prima della creazione dell’opera. In seguito, parlando dell’arrivo della Butterfly in Giappone, si scopre perché i giapponesi hanno trovato l’opera problematica e, allo stesso tempo, come essa abbia giocato un ruolo nello sviluppo della loro identità culturale. Infine, discute le prospettive future dell’opera di Puccini e cerca di stabilire le condizioni in cui potrebbe sostenere la sua rilevanza per le prossime generazioni. Nel corso del discorso, si mostra quanto complesse possano essere le interazioni culturali in un’opera lirica come Madama Butterfly, e, in questo caso particolare, esplora come questa storia ambientata in Oriente sia resa secondo la tradizione musico-culturale italiana
Thomas Kinsella and the Visual Arts
No full textWhen working with the poet Thomas Kinsella on the limited edition artist’s book The Táin, Irish artist Louis le Brocquy spoke about his need to find a way of devising a series of images to complement Kinsella’s translation of the ancient Gaelic saga that would not ‘disturb the imaginative reality’ of the epic poem. Eschewing representation, le Brocquy’s semi-abstract ink drawings encapsulated the vigour and dynamism of those raw texts, translated with a blunt force by the Dublin poet. Kinsella’s relationship with art is fundamental to his aim of ‘eliciting order from significant experience’. He has collaborated with artists on the illustration of his poems and translations, and has chosen archival images to accompany his Peppercanister series of poems (1972 to present) in ways that deepen and expand the breadth of understanding and inquiry into the ‘significant experience’ of contemporary Ireland. The chapter will examine the importance of art for the development of Kinsella’s poetic career. It will analyse early works such as the 1954 translation The Sons of Usneach, published in two editions, one with Celtic illustrations by Mia Cranwell, the other with line drawings by Bridget Swinton, and Kinsella’s first collection, Poems (1956) with illustrations by Elizabeth Rivers. Central to any discussion of Kinsella and art is his long-standing collaboration with Franco-Irish artist Louis le Brocquy and their fifteen-year project translating and illustrating the Táin Bó Cuailnge. The chapter will detail the development of the project and the relation between text and image in this livre d’artiste, exploring also the cultural relevance of this important work. Kinsella’s close working relationship with Dolmen Press founder Liam Miller alerted him to the aesthetic implications of the hand press and of typesetting. This understanding informed the aesthetic of Kinsella’s own Peppercanister Press, founded in 1972 and developed in collaboration with Miller’s Dolmen Press until the early 1980s when Peppercanister volumes benefited from the expertise of Ireland’s Gallery Press and Dedalus Press. The chapter will examine the source and aesthetic relevance of the diverse range of imagery used in the books published by the Peppercanister Press, arguing that these images are integral and necessary for a full reading of Kinsella’s mature work. Among the works considered are the illustrations for A Technical Supplement (1976) taken from Denis Diderot’s (1751-1766) Encyclopédie and the cover of The Messenger (1978) drawn from the popular Irish religious pamphlet of the same name. The chapter will conclude that it is only with a deeper understanding of the ways in which Kinsella has deployed art within his poetry that we can complete the ‘dynamic’ ‘act of reading’ about which Kinsella has spoken, and fully understand his response to ‘significant experience’ of Modern Ireland
Queering the Transhumanist Imaginaries of Life after Death: A Deconstructionist Approach to Cryonics and Mind-Uploading
No full textThis chapter aims to provide a framework for deconstructing contemporary transhumanist approaches to death, dying, and disposal in North Atlantic culture. To do so, we will focus on cryonics and mind-uploading as two complex sets of ideas and practices centred around the attempt to preserve life after the death of the physical body. By unearthing the cultural constructs on which cryonics and mind-uploading depend, we argue that Queer Death Studies have the potential to mobilise a vast, transdisciplinary methodological framework ranging from science and technology studies to religious studies, from political theory to the history of science, and from literature and media studies to cultural genealogy. Our chapter is divided into three sections. The first two introduce transhumanism and address the most pressing ethical questions raised by a transhumanist approach to death. The last section argues that, to deconstruct the imaginaries of technological survival after death, we must analyse technologies like cryonics and mind-uploading as techno-science-fictions, studying of the networks from which cryonics and mind-uploading have emerged over the course of the 20th century. The conclusion begins to address the question: how can we queer the imaginaries of technological post-life that emerge from cryonics and mind-uploading
Globally connected, nationally restrained: Platform ambiguities and censorship in Turkey’s drama production
Get PDFAbout a decade ago, Turkey’s television drama makers believed that streaming platforms would expand markets and create an uncensored space. Platforms did partly reform working conditions and enable drama creatives globally produce quality shows. Yet, creatives remain politically restrained because of platforms’ compliance with state regulations. Drawing on platform studies’ emphasis on how platforms have both restraining and enabling features and extending this towards the contradictions around creative freedom and state control, I conceptualize drama creatives’ working experiences with national and global streaming platforms through platform ambiguity. Platform ambiguity allows for grasping how platforms exert power over cultural producers by both enabling and restraining their creative work. Dewesternizing platforms and cultural production scholarship by highlighting how drama makers are not only creative but also geopolitical subjects dependent on the state, I show that their imaginaries and labor practices are always embedded in national contexts and shaped by regulatory structures
Insider/Outsider: Arlene Bowman’s Navajo Talking Picture
Get PDFArlene Bowman’s Navajo Talking Picture (1986) portrays the filmmaker’s grandmother as a reluctant documentary subject, filmed against her wishes on her Navajo reservation. Upon its release, the film confounded critics by seeming to replicate an objectifying gaze weaponized against Native Americans since settler colonialism and throughout histories of documentary and classical Hollywood. What was Bowman doing, pursuing her elder with such ferocity? As this article discovers, language and translation offer clues. Aware of the importance of language to place-based identity, Bowman approached translation as a political question in the film. She did not speak Navajo, and had little idea what her grandmother was saying as she filmed her – though hostile body language spoke loudly. In some scenes, Bowman enlisted an interpreter. In others, she added English dubbing in post-production. Drawing on Trinh T. Minh-ha’s concept of the ‘insider/outsider’ filmmaker, this article argues that Bowman foregrounds her troubles with translation to examine her own situated – and estranged – identity. Seen today, amidst global discussions of Indigenous land rights and environmental racism, the film remains powerful and provocative in its performative indictment of extractivism’s reach