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Cultural competence

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Unlocking a multimodal archive of Southern Chinese martial arts through embodied cues

Sarah Irene Brutton Kenderdine, Yumeng Hou, Fadel Mamar Seydou

Purpose: Despite being an authentic carrier of various cultural practices, the human body is often underutilised to access the knowledge of human body. Digital inventions today have created new avenues to open up cultural data resources, yet mainly as appa ...

2023

Crowdsourcing Public Engagement for Urban Planning in the Global South: Methods, Challenges and Suggestions for Future Research

Jérôme Chenal

Crowdsourcing could potentially have great benefits for the development of sustainable cities in the Global South (GS), where a growing population and rapid urbanization represent serious challenges for the years to come. However, to fulfill this potential ...

2022

Mega Event Reinforced Industrial Heritage Transformation: A typological matrix between narratives and practices

Florence Graezer Bideau, Huishu Deng

Mega-events have been considered as a strategy to boost urban development, which shifts targets from expansion outside of the original city fabric to reuse of heritage. The bidirectional dynamic between mega-events and heritage has been emphasized, as the ...

2022

The CT-cube: A framework for the design and the assessment of computational thinking activities

Francesco Mondada, Alberto Piatti, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy

Computational thinking is a fundamental competence that is being introduced in K-12 and succeeding curricula worldwide. Despite this huge effort, many computational thinking models in the literature do not explicitly take into consideration the pupils’ age ...

2022

Instance norm improves meta-learning in class-imbalanced land cover classification

Devis Tuia, Marc Conrad Russwurm

Distribution shift is omnipresent in geographic data, where various climatic and cultural factors lead to different representations across the globe. We aim to adapt dynamically to unseen data distributions with model-agnostic meta-learning, where data sa ...

2022

Nurturing the socialist spiritual civilization: Interplay between anthropology and politics

Florence Graezer Bideau

Since the 1940s, rural traditional dance of the North-West region plays a pivotal part in the making of cultural policy in RPC. Transformed and politized by cultural cadres at Yan'an, social and recreational practices such as yangge dance became propaganda ...

2021

Innovators in Urban China: Makerspaces and Marginality with Impact

Monique Stéphanie Bolli

In China, the emergence of makerspaces, hackerspaces, Fab Labs, and innovation labs reflects top-down and bottom-up dynamics. The grassroots movements and governmental efforts promoting innovation and creativity are part of the maker trend linked to the ri ...

2020

BookTubing Across Regions: Examining Differences based on Nonverbal and Verbal Cues

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Dinesh Babu Jayagopi

BookTubers are a rapidly growing community in YouTube who shares content related to books. Previous literature has addressed problems related to automatically analyzing opinions and mood of video logs (vlogs) as a generic category in YouTube. Unfortunately ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

ICT Adoption in Executive Training for Development. Blending Digital and Physical Communication and Awareness Channels

Denis Gillet, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia, Adrian Christian Holzer

Digital capacity building is a key policy for states to meet the Sustainable Development Goals. This paper presents one of the actions carried out by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in collaboration with the Swiss Federal In ...

2019

ICT Adoption in Executive Training for Development Blending Digital and Physical Communication and Awareness Channels

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer

Digital capacity building is a key policy for states to meet the Sustainable Development Goals. This paper(1) presents one of the actions carried out by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in collaboration with the Swiss Federal ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

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