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Online and Offline life: key factors for a functional use of the Internet
No full textStarting from the concepts of functional organ and inverse instrumentality, we present an ongoing research whose purpose is to analyze the use of social Web during the lifespan. Specifically, the research explores processes that underline a problematic use of the social Web compared with those that develop and improve human abilities through the functional use of the Internet
Developmental Technologies : Evoluzione Tecnologica e Sviluppo Umano
No full textPerché ci piace così tanto il “mi piace”? Perché abbiamo lo smartphone pieno di app “inutili”? Perché controlliamo continuamente sui social network ciò che fanno gli altri? I robot sono partner sociali affascinanti o inquietanti? Quanto e come l’intelligenza artificiale modificherà il nostro modo di pensare e di agire in futuro, soprattutto per quanto riguarda la presa di decisioni e la risoluzione di problemi?
Questi sono alcuni degli interrogativi ai quali questo volume intende dare una risposta, utilizzando il background teorico della psicologia, con particolare riferimento all’ambito della psicologia dello sviluppo e dell’educazione, e considerando differenti periodi del ciclo di vita, dall’infanzia, all’adolescenza, sino all’emerging adulthood e alle altre fasi dell’età adulta.
Il testo focalizza l’attenzione su alcune tecnologie digitali e robotiche, attuali e future, descrivendo le dinamiche e i processi psicologici che le rendono funzionali o disfunzionali per lo sviluppo e l’evoluzione dell’uomo.
Ogni capitolo, oltre a presentare le principali teorie di riferimento nell’ambito dei fenomeni analizzati, propone la descrizione delle ricerche condotte direttamente dagli autori riguardanti effetti e potenzialità delle tecnologie digitali e robotiche nell’intero ciclo di vita
A Robot-Partner for Preschool Children Learning English Using Socio-Cognitive Conflict
Full text linkThis paper presents an exploratory study in which a humanoid robot (MecWilly) acted as a partner to preschool children, helping them to learn English words. In order to use the Socio-Cognitive Conflict paradigm to induce the knowledge acquisition process, we designed a playful activity in which children worked in pairs with another child or with the humanoid robot on a word-picture association task involving fruit and vegetables. The analysis of the two experimental conditions (child-child and child-robot) demonstrates the effectiveness of Socio-Cognitive Conflict in improving the children’s learning of English. Furthermore, the analysis of children's performances as reported in this study appears to highlight the potential use of humanoid robots in the acquisition of English by young children
Online and offline life: The functional use of the internet during the life cycle
No full textThis research aims to clarify when, how and under which conditions the Internet usage is functional for people during the life cycle in 574 adolescents, 671 younger emerging adults, 163 older emerging adults, 722 adults. Starting from Leontev studies, it is possible to consider the Internet as a functional organ. The goal is to verify which factors (Gender, Hours per day spent Online, Online Social-Support, Number of Online Contacts (NOCs), Life Satisfaction, Job Satisfaction) lead people to a Functional Internet Use (FIU). Significant results were found in all factors considered, including gender differences. © 2018, Interactive Media Institute. All rights reserved
Using educational robot to enhance the potential of creative thinking in children
Full text linkThis research analyzes the effectiveness of the non-humanoid robot Ozobot as interactive-tool for school- children to enhance their potential of creative thinking. The study compares three experimental condition (Ozobot Single Work, Ozobot Pair Work, and Control) in a problem-solving task (programming the robot to perform a given route in a paper labyrinth) in 171 children aged between 9 and 10 years (85 females, 86 males). Results show that children who performed the task alone with the robot (Ozobot Single Work) improved their potential of creative thinking significantly compared with those who perform the task in pair with the robot (Ozobot Pair Work) and the control group. No gender differences occurs
The Onlife in Emerging Adulthood: Experimentation, Exploration, and Change in the Digital Era
No full textInternet revolutionized our lifestyle. New generation devices like smartphones and tablets allow us to be always connected: the web represents a significant part of our days. These epochal changes bring with them questions about the potentialities and the risks of web. This chapter introduces a research whose purpose is to investigate the Onlife during emerging adulthood divided into two groups—youngerEA (18-24) and olderEA (25-29)—considering both the problematic and the functional side of the use of the internet. Self-esteem, self-control, online and offline social support were considered as factor that influenced the internet use habits. Typology of social networks, time spent online, device used, and number of online contacts are considered. Results show significant differences between youngerEA and olderEA in the use of the web both in problematic and functional way
Being Online in Emerging Adulthood: Between Problematic or Functional Use of the Internet
No full textinternet revolutionized our lifestyle. New generation devices like smartphones and tablets allow us to be always connected: the web represents a significant part of our days. These epochal changes bring with them questions about the potentialities and the risks of web 2.0. This chapter introduces a research whose purpose is to investigate the relationships between Online and Offline lives in Emerging Adulthood. Starting by the concept of functional organ (Leont'ev, 1972) and inverse instrumentality (Ekbia & Nardi, 2012), the goal of the study is to go beyond the research on web addiction, and start to explore a model able to predict why some emerging adults have their life empowered by the web and while others get trapped in the problematic use
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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