Openness to experience is a personality factor in the five-factor model of personality, and it is composed of six facets. Facets of openness appear conceptually analogous to overexcitabilities (OEs), which are displays of inner energy guiding individuals toward advanced potential according to the theory of positive disintegration. This study examined the similarity of OEs to corresponding openn...

Correctness-by-construction (CbC) is an algorithm derivation technique in which the algorithm is co-developed with its correctness proof. Starting with a specification (most often as a preand post-condition), ‘derivation steps’ are made towards a final algorithm. Critically, each step in the derivation is a correctness-preserving one, meaning that the composition of the derivation steps is the ...

Based in 14 focus groups, this exploratory study attempts to analyze the way women and men perceive talking about information and communication technology in their same sex friendship networks and the way it impact in information and communication technology (ICT) attitude and knowledge sharing. Our research findings reveal that friendship networks play an important role in ICT knowledge sharin...

The authors of this exploratory study used textual analysis of transcribed interviews to examine the mental constructs that individuals form around advance care terminology and to learn how elderly veterans conceptualize the language used in the Veterans Administration advance directive. They found that respondents often negotiated meaning by drawing on rigid schemas, specific mental constructs...

Talking to friends, family, or peers about health issues might, among other things, increase knowledge of social norms and feelings of self-efficacy in adopting a healthier lifestyle. We often see interpersonal health communication as an important mediating factor in the effects of health campaigns on health behavior. No research has been done so far, however, on factors that influence whether ...

This paper presents an exploratory study of college-age students using twoway, push-to-talk cellular radios. We describe the observed and reported use of cellular radio by the participants, the activities and purposes for which they adopted it, and their responses. We then examine these empirical results using mediated communication theory. Cellular radios have a unique combination of affordanc...

Today, big and small organizations alike collect huge amounts of data, and they do so with one goal in mind: extract "value" through sophisticated exploratory analysis, and use it as the basis to make decisions as varied as personalized treatment and ad targeting. To address this challenge, we have developed Berkeley Data Analytics Stack (BDAS), an open source data analytics stack for big data ...

This research extends literature on the emergence of service ecosystems by developing new theoretical insight and explanation into how experience change stability over time. Empirically, our case study focuses digital transformation in New Zealand public sector enterprise services market 2010–2017. The exploratory illustrative builds 22 in-depth interviews extensive document analysis. We reveal...