Images of female scientists and engineers in popular$lms convey cultural and social assumptions about the role of women in science, engineering, and technology (SET). This study analyzed cultural representations of gender conveyed through images offemale scientists andengineers in popularjilms from 1991 to 2001. While many of these depictions of female scientists and engineers emphasized their ...

Historical building conservation raises two important issues which are documentation and refurbishing. For the recording and documentation, we already have developed 3d laser scanner and such photogrammetry technology those represent a freeze object of virtual reality by digital documentation. On the other hand, the refurbished engineering of historic building is a challenge for conservation he...

This paper presents some contributions of semiotic engineering to the identification of cultural issues involved in the design and evaluation of multicultural systems (i.e. systems designed for users from different cultures). We carried out a communicability evaluation of the International Children’s Digital Library. Participants of test sessions had different nationalities and spoke different ...

between people with different cultural background Bruno A. Sugiyama, Junia C. Anacleto, Sidney Fels and Helena M. Caseli Department of Computer Science, Federal University of São Carlos, São Carlos – SP, Brazil Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver – BC, Canada +55 (16) 3351-8615 {bruno_sugiyama, junia}@dc.ufscar.br, [email protected], hele...

The authors will briefly describe how some of today’s innovations and advancements might provide potential for improving the efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of contemporary teaching methods. A model curriculum proposed in this paper merges the disciplines of mathematics, science, engineering, and computing. It also addresses the growing need for exposing aspiring engineers to the human, ...

1 Department of Cultural Creativity and Digital Media Design, Lunghwa University of Science and Technology, Gueishan, Taoyuan County, Taiwan, Republic of China. 2 Department of Multi-media and Game Science, Lunghwa University of Science and Technology, Gueishan, Taoyuan County, Taiwan, Republic of China. 3 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Oriental Institute of Technology, Panchiao, New Tai...

In recent years, laboratory studies of cultural evolution have become increasingly prevalent as a means of identifying and understanding the effects of cultural transmission on the form and functionality of transmitted material. The datasets generated by these studies may provide insights into the conditions encouraging, or inhibiting, high rates of innovation, as well as the effect that this h...

We discuss the importance of narrative intelligence (story-awareness, story-telling, historical grounding) in regard to an agent’s transcendence of its immediate local temporal context to create a broad temporal horizon in which the experience and future of the agent can be accounted for, together with the advantage that narrative provides to sociality by making the experience of others availab...

Errors occur commonly in healthcare and can cause significant harm to patients. Most errors arise from a combination of individual, system, and communication failures. Neurologists may be involved in harmful errors in any practice setting and should familiarize themselves with tools to prevent, report, and examine errors. Although physicians, patients, and ethicists endorse candid disclosure of...

It has been proposed that cultural evolution was made possible by a cognitive transition brought about by onset of the capacity for self-triggered recall and rehearsal. Here we develop a novel idea that models of collectively autocatalytic networks, developed for understanding the origin and organization of life, may also help explain the origin of the kind of cognitive structure that makes cul...