Since the Dartmouth workshop on Artificial Intelligence coined term, AI has been a topic ofevergrowing scientific and public interest. Understanding its impact society is essential to avoid potential pitfalls in applications. This study employed qualitative approach focus public’s knowledge of, expectations for AI. We interviewed 25 participants 30-minute interviews over period of two months. I...

Teachers are at risk to suffer from burnout and adverse mental health as a result of work-related stress conflicts. The development teacher resilience depends upon complex interaction between extraneous factors (i.e. administrative social support), and, intrinsic personal values). Although it is known that faith plays crucial in the different contexts emotional exhaustion, illness), remains que...

Financial inclusion efforts have resulted in a rapid increase access to financial services. However, the usage of these services has not expanded at same pace, especially rural areas. The paper explores factors that caused lag behind using qualitative approach. Data is collected from two predominantly provinces South Africa focus group discussions. While supply-side distance and transaction cos...

Contemporary everyday cultures are increasingly pervaded by digital platforms, making a rethinking of observational research into sociocultural phenomena necessary. Observational practices that remain confined to physical localities face various impasses in the era platforms. Combining participant observation workplaces where platforms accessed with technical walkthroughs their interfaces, I ma...

Qualitative probabilistic reasoning in a Bayesian network often reveals tradeoffs: relationships that are ambiguous due to competing qualitative influences. We present two techniques that combine qualitative and numeric probabilistic reasoning to resolve such tradeoffs, inferring the qualitative relationship between nodes in a Bayesian network. The first approach incrementally marginalizes node...