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Search results for "communication" (29)
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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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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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58% of mobile users in UK do one call a day only
The data, from a survey by comparison site uSwitch of over 12,000 people, showed that over 60 billion texts are being sent per month, with around 67 sent per person on average. 58 per cent of mobile phone users...
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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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The Project
Usagewatch was created in 2005 by Francesco Cara to track the evolution of user practices with new digital media. Stefana Broadbent has since taken it on and is transforming it into a more narrative and analytic tool. The idea is to combine t...
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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...
