We hypothesized that the amount of positive experiences at work (job satisfaction, pleasure, engagement, meaning) is a function of the extent to which the situational circumstances at the workplace allow for the application of an individual’s signature character strengths. For the description of the individual a reliable and valid instrument already exists, but not for the environment. Hence, t...

Patient engagement has become a primary care research and practice priority. Little guidance exists, however, on how best to engage patients in primary care practice improvement, or how to measure the impact of their engagement. We present an overview of group concept mapping as a method for engaging patients in primary care practice improvement. We detail the group concept mapping process as a...

The present study was aimed at investigating the relationships between students’ perceived classroom achievement goals, school engagement and substance use in terms of smoking and drinking, and at investigating gender differences regarding these issues in a sample of 1,239 Norwegian 10 grade students. A multivariate analysis showed that motivational and affective school engagement was predicted...

They draw on learning from case studies which formed part of research on support for mental health and character education in schools, colleges and alternative provision across England . The case study schools were selected based on their reported active engagement in provision for mental health and character development. The case study settings included mainstream (both LA maintained and acade...

This publication is to present a summary of research (referred as κ-Labs1) carried out in author’s Ph.D studies on topic of application of Logic Programming as scripting language for virtual character behavior control in First Person Shooter (FPS) games. The research goal is to apply reasoning and knowledge representation techniques to create character behavior, which results in increased playe...

While educational television or video programs are important and accessible learning resources for young children, the lack of contingent interaction afforded within this type programming may limit how much children learn from them. In project, we leveraged natural language processing technologies to enable between a character, with goal enhancing children's engagement. Our randomized controlle...

This chapter draws from research in the Pilbara (Western Australia), and to a lesser extent in the Gulf of Carpentaria (Queensland), on the Indigenous engagement with the mining industry. Post-Native Title Act land use agreements have been made between industry and Native Title claimant groups, in these two regions as others, known generally as ‘community benefit packages’. These agreements and...

Research has shown that character strengths are positively linked with well-being in general. However, there has not been a fine-grained analysis up to date. This study examines the individual relational aspects between the 24 character strengths, subjective well-being (SWB), and different aspects of psychological well-being (PWB) at two times of measurement (N = 117). Results showed that overa...

Organizations are experiencing increased competition, disruptive innovation, and continuous changes in their social and economic context. Furthermore, the decrease of resources (economic and human) in such a demanding context make it imperative for organizations to find new models and strategies to make their service delivery more sustainable at the economic, environmental and psychological lev...

An increasing number of applications for social robots focuses on learning and playing with children. One of the unanswered questions is what kind of social character a robot should have in order to positively engage children in a task. In this paper, we present a study on the effect of two different social characters of a robot (peer vs. tutor) on children’s task engagement. We derived peer an...