This workshop focuses on defining the mechanisms required for pervasive gameplay and interaction to inform, educate, and reflect with game supported learning. The objective is for participants to share, discuss and learn about existing relevant mechanisms for pervasive learning in a socially-nurtured Serious Game (SG) context. Research in SG, as a whole, faces two main challenges: understanding...

In the Editorial 'Is the neglect of exercise in anorexia nervosa research a case of "running out" of ideas or do we need to take a "LEAP" of faith into the future?' these authors express their doubts concerning the suitability of keeping patients warm as a beneficial treatment option in managing excessive activity in anorexia nervosa (AN) patients. The case for warming as an adjunctive treatmen...

Believing in God requires not only a leap of faith but also an extension of people's normal capacity to perceive the minds of others. Usually, people perceive minds of all kinds by trying to understand their conscious experience (what it is like to be them) and their agency (what they can do). Although humans are perceived to have both agency and experience, humans appear to see God as possessi...

In this paper I have the pleasure of responding to three insightful commentaries to my paper, Bridging the gap between politics and techniques: On the next practices of participatory design (Kyng 2010). The commentaries are by Ellen Balka (2010), Helena Karasti (2010) and Dan Shapiro (2010). They deserve more in depth consideration than time and space allow. Hopefully the authors and I, as well...

C A R EN R O SE N B LA TT Every click on a link is a leap of faith. When you click on the blue underlined text or on a picture on a Web page, there is always a (sometimes much too long) moment of suspense when you are waiting for the page to load. Until you actually see what is behind the link, you don’t know whether it will lead to the reward of another interesting page, to the disappointment ...

While there has been considerable recent focus on the ways in which consulting practice makes the consultant “invincible” (Berglund & Werr, 2000; Clark & Salaman, 1998), the position of the novice student consultant has been a relatively unexamined phenomenon. Successful consulting practice relies on the consultant’s development of a credible and authoritative personal style, the performance of...

recent studies demonstrate an overlapping relationship between faith practices of individuals, family functioning, and the corporate faith of congregations. this study reports on the psychometric properties of the Christian faith Practices Scale (CfPS), which was created to empirically measure dykstra’s faith behaviors or “practices.” analysis of a large purposive sample (n=7,403) indicates ini...

Database provenance chronicles the history of updates and modifications to data, and has received much attention due to its central role in scientific data management. However, the use of provenance information still requires a leap of faith. Without additional protections, provenance records are vulnerable to accidental corruption, and even malicious forgery, a problem that is most pronounced ...