study into the mauve stinger. “The trouble is that we know so little about jellyfish,” says Haughton. Most people think of them as having little impact on ecosystems. “Now we need to learn, very quickly, about their behaviour and about their breeding patterns in our waters.” The team is getting its first basic data by monitoring the number of jellyfish spotted from the decks of ferries crossing...

We propose the application of ubiquitous sensor technology to analyze dynamic structure transitions and the exchange of non-verbal information in multi-party human-to-human conversational interactions in open situations. We present an analysis of conversational interactions that took place in an open interaction space of poster presentation sessions and were collected as an Interaction Corpus. ...

This study investigated the extent of the relationship between participative decision making and employee performance in selected hotels in Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria. The specific objective determined the relationship between leader behavior and employee commitment. Descriptive survey and questionnaire was adopted as instrument for data collection. The total population of the study comprised o...

We are currently witnessing a paradigm shift in digital communication, determined by platformization. Digital channels have abandoned any unidirectional pretension to become interactive and bidirectional channels. Through systematic literature review, this research aims obtain clear, complete, updated definition of the concept "social audience". The results point an increase incidence terms suc...

Using Creation Theatre’s TheTime Machine (2020) as a reference point, this review reflects on how the theatre-hybrid form of “Zoom performance” creates new audience development and participation opportunities compared to live theatre performance. This piece is partnered with an interview recording Jonathan Holloway, Time Machine's Playwright.

There is growing attention to student assessments designed reach beyond the classroom, including with an immediate or future audience. The impact of audience, however, has not been examined in multimodal across continents, institutions, disciplines, and teaching contexts. Using qualitative data, this article examines on learning incorporating audience awareness diverse settings through projects...

Objectives The Internet and social media are revolutionizing how social support is exchanged and perceived, making online health communities (OHCs) one of the most exciting research areas in health informatics. This paper aims to provide a framework for organizing research of OHCs and help identify questions to explore for future informatics research. Based on the framework, we conceptualize OH...

This paper is about immediate experience of vivid emotions which come to be within the artist-artwork-recipient relations, where artwork point ?embrace?. I will address topic from perspective personal and artistic practice, reveals nature aesthetic as one creation. Emotions induced made alive through are ways modes participation in its originative truth; they anything but mere mental events, or...

This article reports on the conception of a novel digital backchannel, project name Backstage, dedicated to large classes aiming at empowering not only the audience but also the speaker, at promoting the awareness of both audience and speaker, and at promoting an active participation of students in the lecture. The backchannel supports different forms of inter-student communication via short mi...