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Search results for "contact" (23)
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Managing Separation Anxiety through communication
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The role of private communication in accidents
The two accidents we analyse...
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Analysing accidents : when an air traffic controller chats with a friend
On the 8th of...
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Mobile emotions
A survey done by Right Mobile Phone a UK online mobile phone retailer of 3138 British users found again the importance of keeping close to the people they love: 78% of people tell someone they love them using a mobile on a dail...
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Analysing accidents : When a train engineer sends 57 texts on duty
On September the 12...
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The democratisation of intimacy
Workplace, school, battlefield, foreign country, were until recently all settings in which people were removed for short or long periods of time from their closest ties, family or friends. Clocking in, meant leaving behind the family and ...
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Continuous contact
Ron is in his late thirties, and recently had a baby with his second wife. He also has a teenage son from his previous marriage. He is the sole employee of a shop and has quite a lot of empty moments in his day waiting for customers. Ron talks to and...
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Keeping close to the core
A good proportion of adults in Europe, are using at least 4 channels of communication a day, fix and mobile phone, SMS, and email. With all these channels, devices, services, a user contacts on average the same 5 to 10 people 80...
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The role of cultural representations in the diffusion of innovation
In the 1980's a wave of research in cognitive science examined the role of preconceptions, in the form of naive theories and mental models, in shaping our understanding of the world (Gentner & Stevens, 1983, McClosky 1983, ). Research on naïve p...
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Internet use and sociability - USA
December 2004The Stanford Center for the Quantitative Study of Society published the report Ten years after the birth of the Internet, how do Americans use the Interne...
