Abstract Date Presented 04/22/2023 This study depicts how a servant leadership immersion in Zambia, Africa, was catalyst to critical and cultural thinking, confidence, advocacy skills of student OTs be empowered agents change. Primary Author Speaker: Jill Brown Contributing Authors: Wendy B. Stav

OBJECTIVE To design and implement an international and interprofessional Global Learning Partnership Model, which involves shared learning between academics and students from Universitas 21 network with other universities with United Nations Millennium Development Goal needs. DESIGN Two literature reviews were conducted to inform ethical aspects and curriculum design of the GLP model. Feedbac...

Eliciting multiple stakeholder narratives is a critical factor when designing systems, services or products. This research explores how the use of an analog tool (the picture postcard) in the digital age can be used to elicit socio-cultural stories to support design for ‘social practice’. The process combines people and things by using a participatory design approach and material culture studie...

The optimal approach to learning a target culture is to experience it in its real-life context through interaction. The new 3D virtual world platform under consideration, Blue Mars Lite, enables users to be immersed in existing Google Maps Street View panorama, globally. Google Maps with Street View contains a massive collection of 360-degree street-level images of the most popular places world...

This paper describes a virtual historically simulated environment with inbuilt evaluation mechanisms to test the effect of various levels of interactivity on user engagement and immersion in a foreign cultural environment. The proposed evaluation mechanisms are computer scripted agents, dynamic physical environments, culturally situated tasks and artifacts, and multi-layered ‘memento maps’. As ...