We present preliminary work on a framework for constructing identities that takes as its point of departure Barwise’s channel theory, founded on category theory, and allied work on situation semantics. The framework takes actions relating to identity as fundamental. Actions and events are situations, although situations can include larger context. Identity-related situations are classified unde...

Zora is a narrative-based graphical multi-user environment purposefully design to help people understand and affect the ways in which identity and values are actively constructed by both an individual and a community. Zora engages young people in building artifacts as representations of their complex self and creating communities in which values and attitudes are put to the test. It supports 1)...

This article deals with the urban identity and its connection dwellers’ willingness to take part in processes of decisionmaking concerning future their cities, rejection, or, on contrary, acceptance vision “smart” development promoted by city leaders. The study gives special attention gap between citizens’ perceptions cities ideal image (perception-expectation gap). provides an overview contemp...

Interacting with intelligence in an ever-changing environment calls for exceptional performances from artificial beings. One mechanism explored to produce intuitive-like behavior in artificial intelligence applications is emotion. This chapter examines the engineering of a mechanism that synthesizes and processes an artificial agent’s internal emotional states: the Affective Space. Through use ...

The question we address is the following: how do agents that are embedded in large societies — hundreds to millions of agents — focus the enormous potential for interaction with other agents towards the most productive encounters? The relevance of this question needs little argument. From a social studies viewpoint, it is tied to the understanding of a society's structure and how it — implicitl...

Using semi-structured interviews and language portraits, this research investigates how six Vietnamese sojourner children who have spent from two to five years in Australia perceive their bilingual/bicultural identity. This article contributes the limited on children’s or Third Culture Kids’ (TCKs) own perceptions of transnational experiences contribute formation The portray themselves as unbal...

BACKGROUND Emotional exhaustion is central in burnout syndrome and signals its development. General practitioners' (GP) work is emotionally challenging but research on these aspects is lacking. OBJECTIVE To study the prevalence of emotional exhaustion among GPs and to evaluate how their characteristics and work experiences are associated with emotional exhaustion. DESIGN AND METHODS A quest...

An interpretive case study was conducted to examine how team members construct their identities and manage cultural differences in globally distributed information technology work. Research investigating globally distributed information technology work acknowledges the influence of culture on team members and their work activities, but issues of team members’ individual identity and agency are ...

Theory and research regarding moral motivation has focused for decades on the roles of moral reasoning and, to some extent, moral emotion. Recently, however, several models of morality have positioned identity as an additional important source of moral motivation. An individual has a moral identity to the extent that he or she has constructed his or her sense of self around moral concerns (e.g....

Academic writing is not just about presenting a set of ideas, but through the act of writing, the authors position themselves as individuals having particular identities which mostly reflect the dominant sociocultural values and practices of the discourse communities in which they are living and performing. The present study, using a mixed method approach, attempted to explore the evidences of ...