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從敘說中開展的自我建構歷程:以一位幼教老師為例
No full text本研究是以個案研究法為研究方法，透過會談的方式，試著在研究對象的敘說及其與 研究者的對話中，瞭解個體在心理治療中是如何透過敘說建構其自我，及其歷程為何 。研究結果呈現，個體藉由敘說開展的自我建構的歷程可分為三種樣態：（一）自我 的澄明與追尋；（二）關係的重新認識與體悟；（三）創傷的轉化與超越。從研究中 發現，個體要開展自我建構的歷程，必須要有一個過渡空間；而過渡空間是透過敘說 、時間的距離、時空轉換、自我觀照所醞釀出來的。敘說與時間的距離使個體能夠重 新賦予新的意義來超越創傷；時空的轉換則使個體有能力以長大的我撫慰小時候的我 ；而自我觀照讓個體能諦聽自己的內在之聲，找到適合自己的「我」。故這四者是促 成個體的自我建構的可能要素。 The article adopted the case study methodology to investigate the process of self-construction Through interviews, the investigator tries to understand how one constructs himself or herself through narrative and dialogue with the investigator in psychotherapy The findings show that there are three patterns for the process of self- construction: 1. clarification and search for the self; 2 . re-comprehension and realization of relationships; 3. transformation and transcendence of traumatic experiences The research also finds that for the process of self- construction to unfold, it is necessary to have a transitional space, which can be developed by narrative, the lapse of time , shifts in time frames, and self-reflection Narrative and lapse of time allow one to transcend trauma by adding new meanings to the traumatic experiences, shifts in time frames equip one with the ability to console the traumatized childhood with the perspective of an adult, and self- reflection provides an opportunity for listening to the inner voice of the self in order to re-locate the "self"
Liquid democracy: a comparative study of digital urban democracy
No full textIn Liquid Democracy, author Yu-Shan Tseng offers a bold new framework for understanding democracy as a dynamic, fluid process. Challenging the idea that AI and digital tools are inherently anti-democratic, this innovative volume bridges theory and practice to investigate various “liquid conditions,” a novel concept capturing how political action flows and transforms like water within the intersections of urban spaces and digital technologies.Through an in-depth comparative study of three groundbreaking digital democracy platforms—Decide Madrid in Madrid, OmaStadi in Helsinki, and vTaiwan in Taipei—Tseng explores how digital platforms can foster participatory governance, pluralism, and alternative democratic futures. In-depth chapters critically examine the interactions between humans, algorithms, and urban systems, revealing how digital tools reconfigure the boundaries of political participation, decision-making, and collective action. Throughout the text, Tseng offers fresh insights into how democracy emerges under contingent conditions shaped by technology and geography.Drawing from years of ethnographic fieldwork, Liquid Democracy is essential reading for master’s and PhD students in geography, political science, and urban studies, as well as scholars, practitioners, and policymakers interested in digital governance, smart cities, civic technology, and algorithmic politics
Human-AI Collaboration in Academic Writing: towards a Synergy Model and A Case to Include AI as a Co-Author
No full textAs generative AI systems such as ChatGPT and Gemini 2.5 become increasingly integrated into academic workflows, the question of their legitimacy, limitations, and potential in scholarly writing has become urgent. This paper presents a reflexive case study of a sustained collaboration between a domain expert in consciousness studies and Gemini 2.5, culminating in the co-authorship of a peer-reviewed research article. By analyzing exactly 37,440 words of recorded interactions, we identify patterns of synergy, including recursive refinement, conceptual amplification, and accelerated manuscript development. We argue that when guided by a knowledgeable human author, AI can act as a cognitive partner rather than a passive tool—amplifying scholarly creativity and improving efficiency without compromising academic rigor. The case supports a '1+1=3' synergy model for co-authorship, in which human steering and AI fluency converge to produce novel insights and polished output faster and more effectively than either could achieve alone. The findings advocate for a paradigm shift from prohibitive policies to the responsible, expert-guided integration of AI in academic research and writing, grounded in transparency and accountability, and present arguments for why the AI tool should be listed as a co-author despite current injunctions against such practice
Assemblage thinking as a methodology for studying urban AI phenomena
No full textThis paper seeks to bypass assumptions that researchers in critical algorithmic studies and urban studies find it difficult to study algorithmic systems due to their black-boxed nature. In addition, it seeks to work against the assumption that advocating for transparency in algorithms is, therefore, the key for achieving an enhanced understanding of the role of algorithmic technologies on modern life. Drawing on applied assemblage thinking via the concept of the urban assemblage, I demonstrate how the notion of urban assemblage can work as an alternative way to explore the distributed and potential dimensions of what has been termed as Urban AI phenomena. Rather than seeing Urban AI phenomena as black-boxed, unknown and opaque, the notion of urban assemblage locates such entities within the wider contests of the city: urban places, communities and politics, where human-algorithmic relationships gather and disperse. In addition, this approach focuses on the potentialities of Urban AI phenomena—how algorithmic systems can operate differently through different aspects of the city—which can be seen to manifest new forms of resistance, collective actions and democracy. I use a case study of an algorithmic system designed to facilitate digital democracy—vTaiwan—to exemplify how assemblage methodology foregrounds the role of cities as spaces and places for exploring the democratic possibilities of algorithmic systems. This paper concludes with discussion of how the assemblage methodology contributes to serve as a bridge between critical algorithm studies and recent studies of platform urbanism
Zingiber chengii Y. H. Tseng, C. M. Wang & Y. C. Lin
No full textZingiber chengii Y.H.Tseng, C.M.Wang & Y.C.Lin urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77204420-1 Fig. 9 PhytoKeys 139: 3 (Wang et al. 2020). Type: TAIWAN – Hsinchu County • Jianshih Township; alt. 320 m; 23 May 2014; Y.H. Tseng 5614; holotype: TCF!. Additional material examined TAIWAN – Hsinchu County • same collection data as for holotype; Y.H. Tseng 5615; TCF • ibid.; Chao 4471; TAIF • ibid.; C.M. Wang & C.Y. Li 16051; TNM • ibid.; Y.C. Lin 1148; TCF • Bilin Bridge; Y.C. Lin 1355; TCF. Description Perennial rhizomatous herbs, 40–70 cm tall. Rhizomes fleshy, weakly aromatic, compacted, densely branched, 0.8–1.4 cm in diameter, brown externally, light yellow internally; root tubers terete, distant from the rhizomes, ca 3.8 × 1.2 cm, brownish green externally. Leafy shoots forming dense clumps, spreading, each shoot comprised of 11–15 well-developed leaves at flowering. Leaves deciduous, simple, distichous; ligules ca 2 mm long, bilobed, membranaceous, pale green, auriculate; petioles 2.0−3.0 mm long, connate a pulvinus; lamina narrowly ovate, 9−15 × 1.5−2.5 cm, length/ width ratio 5.1−6.6, adaxially green, glabrous, abaxially pale green, pubescent along the midrib, base cuneate obtuse, apex acuminate, margin entire, undulate, chartaceous. Inflorescences 1–2 per plant, arising from rhizomes; peduncles 2.5–6.2 cm long, ascending, glabrous; spike narrowly oblong, ca 10.5–12.5 × 2.0–3.0 cm, each with 1–3flowers; fertile bracts yellowish green, usually tinged with red, narrowly ovate, 2.5–3.0 × 0.6–0.8 cm, involute on both sides, apex acute to attenuate, glabrous externally and internally; bracteole narrowly ovate, 1.8–2.8 × 0.6–0.8 cm, translucent green with slight red tinge, apex acute, involute on both sides, glabrous externally and internally. Flowers 7.0–9.0 cm long, much exserted beyond the bracts; calyx tubular, membranaceous, ca 7 mm long, with unilateral incision, translucent. Corolla tube slender, ca 3.5 cm long, creamy-white, glabrous externally and internally; dorsal corolla lobe narrowly ovate, ca 2.7 × 0.7 cm, purple, apex acuminate, glabrous; lateral corolla lobes narrowly ovate, ca 2.5 × 0.7 cm, purple, apex acuminate, glabrous; labellum widely obovate, ca 3.0 × 2.5 cm, purple, apex retuse or entire, with scattered creamy-white patches at base, glabrous; lateral staminodes narrowly oblong, ca 2.0 × 0.5 cm, connate to labellum at ca basal ⅓ to ¼, purple, apices obtuse, glabrous. Stamen one; filament ca 1 mm, glabrous; anther connective tissue creamy-white, elongate appendage wrapped around style; anther thecae two, ca 1 cm long, longitudinal dehiscence, pollen light yellow; anther crest beak-shaped, ca 1.5 cm long when stretched, purple, apex entire. Style filiform, white, ca 5.5 cm long, extending to the end of anther crest; stigma white, ciliate. Ovary cylindrical, trilocular, ca 6.0 × 3.0 mm, yellowish green, pubescent; epigynous glands two, narrowly conical, ca 6 mm long, pale yellow, apices sharp. Capsule ovate, dehiscence loculicidal, ca 1.5 × 1.3 cm, usually as long as the persistent bract, pericarp yellowish-cream or orange-red inside. Seed ellipsoid, ca 4.0 × 2.0 mm, enveloped by the aril. Aril white, deeply denticulate at apex, enveloping ⅓ of the length of the seeds. Phenology Flowering between May and July, and fruiting between July and September. Distribution Endemic to Taiwan. Conservation status This species was evaluated as Endangered (EN) by Wang et al. (2020).Published as part of Lin, Yuan-Chien, Chao, Chien-Ti, Chang, Chih-Yi & Tseng, Yen-Hsueh, 2022, Taxonomic revision of Zingiber (Zingiberaceae) of Taiwan, pp. 74-102 in European Journal of Taxonomy 839 on pages 83-85, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.839.1933, http://zenodo.org/record/711910
Meaningful human control: actionable properties for AI system development
No full textHow can humans remain in control of artificial intelligence (AI)-based systems designed to perform tasks autonomously? Such systems are increasingly ubiquitous, creating benefits - but also undesirable situations where moral responsibility for their actions cannot be properly attributed to any particular person or group. The concept of meaningful human control has been proposed to address responsibility gaps and mitigate them by establishing conditions that enable a proper attribution of responsibility for humans; however, clear requirements for researchers, designers, and engineers are yet inexistent, making the development of AI-based systems that remain under meaningful human control challenging. In this paper, we address the gap between philosophical theory and engineering practice by identifying, through an iterative process of abductive thinking, four actionable properties for AI-based systems under meaningful human control, which we discuss making use of two applications scenarios: automated vehicles and AI-based hiring. First, a system in which humans and AI algorithms interact should have an explicitly defined domain of morally loaded situations within which the system ought to operate. Second, humans and AI agents within the system should have appropriate and mutually compatible representations. Third, responsibility attributed to a human should be commensurate with that human’s ability and authority to control the system. Fourth, there should be explicit links between the actions of the AI agents and actions of humans who are aware of their moral responsibility. We argue that these four properties will support practically minded professionals to take concrete steps toward designing and engineering for AI systems that facilitate meaningful human control.Interactive IntelligenceDesign AestheticsCyber SecurityHuman-Robot InteractionEthics & Philosophy of TechnologyHuman Information Communication DesignWeb Information System
A Two-Dimensional Explanation Framework to Classify AI as Incomprehensible, Interpretable, or Understandable
No full textBecause of recent and rapid developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI), humans and AI-systems increasingly work together in human-agent teams. However, in order to effectively leverage the capabilities of both, AI-systems need to be understandable to their human teammates. The branch of eXplainable AI (XAI) aspires to make AI-systems more understandable to humans, potentially improving human-agent teamwork. Unfortunately, XAI literature suffers from a lack of agreement regarding the definitions of and relations between the four key XAI-concepts: transparency, interpretability, explainability, and understandability. Inspired by both XAI and social sciences literature, we present a two-dimensional framework that defines and relates these concepts in a concise and coherent way, yielding a classification of three types of AI-systems: incomprehensible, interpretable, and understandable. We also discuss how the established relationships can be used to guide future research into XAI, and how the framework could be used during the development of AI-systems as part of human-AI teams.Accepted author manuscriptInteractive Intelligenc
The Study of Interseismic Ground Deformation near Strike-slip Faults
No full text台灣位於環太平洋地震帶，是典型的板塊碰撞所產生之大陸邊緣島嶼。由於菲律賓海板塊六百萬年以來，不斷的擠壓歐亞板塊，台灣島遂得以誕生並成長，造山運動迄今仍在激烈的進行，引發台灣旺盛的地震活動，同時地層之變形亦極為強烈，造成諸多之褶皺與斷層，充斥台灣本島。斷層在地殼材料中可視為一連續體中的破裂面，理論上有關破裂面受力在其造成的變形，已有相當的研究，但是在相關理論應用在斷層仍相當缺乏。本研究擬利用此一方面的理論在斷層附近的地表變形，推估其發生錯移時產生的地表位移量。本研究藉由物理模型試驗觀察平移斷層發生延展 ( propagation ) 前因受應變能量累積導致周圍地表變形的過程，並以數值模擬加以驗證，使吾人能有機會對平移斷層震間運動機制有更深入的探討。
本研究物理模型中，選用果凍作為模擬材料，其材料變形特性為線彈性、可承受較大的應變能，符合本研究欲觀測裂縫延展 ( propagation ) 前變形行為之目的。此外，於物理模型中，以3維PIV分析其變形過程，進一步得到裂縫周圍表面鉛直向位移大小。於數值模型中，採用有限元素分析軟體 ABAQUS做分析並驗證物理模型的正確性，希望能夠更進一步掌握平移斷層延展前地表變形行為。Taiwan is located in the circum-pacific seismic zone, which is a typical convergence plate. Due to the convergence mechanism, there are many folds and faults in Taiwan. The discontinous nature of faults allows them to be trated as large cracks in brittle material. Thus, linear elastic fracture mechanics can be applied to evaluate the stresses and the associated ground surface displacement resulting from fault movement. This research simulated the ground surface deformation before the strike-slip faults propagated via physical model and verified by the numerical analysis.
The material of physical model in this research is jelly, which property is linear elastic and able to accept the large deformation. It accorded with the purpose of simulating the deforamtion before cracks propagated. Moreover, to better understand this deformation process, we monitor the displacement field in scaled tectonic model experiments using high-resolution optical image correlation techniques ( stereoscopic particle imaging velocimetry, SPIV ) .After the processing of Stero PIV, it generated the vertical ground surface displacement near crack. In the numerical model, we adopted the finite element method (ABAQUS) to verify the results of physical model.
In this research, we considered three mode of strike-slip faults that influence the ground deformation near faults, such as fault mode, blind fault mode and multiple faults mode. In the fault mode, we considered the influence of dip angle; In the blind fault mode, we consider the depth of overburden; In the multiple faults mode, we considered the geometry of two cracks.誌謝 I
摘要 II
Abstract III
目錄 IV
表目錄 VI
圖目錄 VII
第一章 緒論 1-1
1.1 研究動機 1-1
1.2 研究目的及方法 1-2
1.3 研究內容 1-2
第二章 文獻回顧 2-1
2.1 板塊邊界的類型 2-1
2.2 地震與地殼變形之研究 2-2
2.3 平移斷層力學機制及構造型態 2-3
2.4 研究方法簡介 2-5
2.5 破壞力學理論在斷層之應用 2-8
2.6 物理與數值模型之研究 2-10
2.7 綜合討論 2-12
第三章 研究方法 3-1
3.1 物理模型簡介 3-1
3.1.1 模擬材料之性質 3-1
3.1.2 模擬材料之準備 3-2
3.1.3 試驗紀錄及分析 3-2
3.2 PIV分析簡介 3-4
3.2.1 PIV原理 3-4
3.2.2 誤差探討 3-10
3.3 物理模型試驗 3-12
3.3.1 物理模型試驗儀器 3-12
3.3.2 物理模型試驗內容規劃 3-12
3.4 數值模擬簡介 3-15
3.5 數值模擬規劃 3-16
第四章 物理模型與數值模擬結果與討論 4-1
4.4 物理模型結果討論 4-1
4.8 數值模擬結果討論 4-3
4.9 綜合討論 4-5
第五章 結論與建議 5-1
5.1 結論 5-1
5.2 建議 5-2
5.2.1三維數值模擬之改進 5-2
5.2.2物理模型之應用 5-2
參考文獻 R-1
附錄A－PIV影響因素測試報告 A-1
附錄B－Stereoscopic PIV測試報告 B-1
附錄C－不同配比果凍基本參數 C-1
附錄D－PIVview3C軟體操作 D-1
附錄E－物理模型與數值模擬驗證 E-1
E.1 物理模型驗證 E-1
E.2 數值模型驗證 E-2
E.2.1 自由場驗證 E-2
E.2.2 單方向位移邊界驗證 E-2
附錄F－物理模型與數值模擬圖形比較 F-1
附錄G－錯移量與裂縫長度之影響 G-
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