Towards conceptualising failure in mathematics as an autobiographical experience

Conceptualising user hedonic experience

For many years, the approach taken towards technology design focused on supporting the effective, efficient, and satisfying use of it. The way people use technology has shifted from merely using it to enjoying using it. This paper describes an early approach to understanding user experience in context of technologies (e.g. digital cameras, PDAs, and mobile phones), as well as in more general co...

Conceptualising the mortality divide in Germany: towards an interdisciplinary analysis.

Why should we know about trends in mortality? Simply, because we want to control them as life expectancy is considered the most relevant health indicator. And here the trouble starts: there are too many determinants aVecting health in diVerent combinations at diVerent historical times. During the cold war the “big simplifiers” used every information to argue in favour of either one system compl...

The Web as an Autobiographical Agent

The reward-based autobiographical memory approach has been applied to the Web search agent. The approach is based on the analogy between the Web and the environmental exploration by a robot and has branched off from a currently developed method for autonomous agent learning of novel environments and consolidating the learned information for efficient further use. The paper describes a model of ...

Conceptualising B2C Businesses as Services

Conceptualising B2C businesses as an innovative class of technology-infused services yields insights into the factors that may lead to success or failure of such businesses. This paper draws from and adapts concepts from services marketing literature and recent thinking on Internet service metrics to present a framework for understanding and analysing B2C businesses.

Motivation and Ability as Factors in Mathematics Experience and Achievement