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Conceptualising quality early childhood education: Learning from young children in Brazil and South Africa through creative and play‐based methods

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright, Irene Rizzini, Malibongwe Gwele, Lynn McNair, Cristina Laclette Porto, Marsha Orgill, E. Kay M. Tisdall, Malcolm Bush, Linda Biersteker   +8 more
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Playful language alternation in an online discussion forum: the example of digital code plays [PDF]

, 2014
This paper explores the linguistic practice of digital code plays in an online discussion forum, used by the community of English-speaking Germans living in Britain.
Jaworska, Sylvia
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Chasing the Chatbots: Directions for Interaction and Design Research [PDF]

, 2019
Big tech-players have been successful in pushing the chatbots forward. Investments in the technology are growing fast, as well as the number of users and applications available.
A Følstad, A Monk, CA Salge, PB Brandtzaeg, PB Brandtzæg, RJ Moore, RJ Moore   +6 more
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Humor as interactional affordances:An ecological perspective on humor in social interaction [PDF]

, 2018
In adopting new theoretical advancements within linguistics and ecological psychology, this paper investigates humor from an ecological perspective in naturally occurring social interaction.
Jensen, Thomas Wiben
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Machine humour: examples from Turing test experiments [PDF]

, 2017
In this paper, we look at the possibility of a machine having a sense of humour. In particular, we focus on actual machine utterances in Turing test discourses.
A Turing, B Copeland, D Dennett, G Benton, H Grice, H Shah, H Shah, Huma Shah, J Moor, K Warwick, K Warwick, K Warwick, K Warwick, K Warwick, K Warwick, K Warwick, K Warwick, K Warwick, Kevin Warwick, M Al-Katib, M Boden, P Bruyn De, P Dybala, P Rickman, P Smith, R Penrose, S Attardo, S Sterrett   +27 more
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Computers that smile: Humor in the interface [PDF]

, 2002
It is certainly not the case that wen we consider research on the role of human characteristics in the user interface of computers that no attention has been paid to the role of humor.
Nijholt, A.
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Establishing diagnostic criteria: the role of clinical pragmatics [PDF]

, 2012
The study of pragmatic disorders is of interest to speech-language pathologists who have a professional responsibility to assess and treat communication impairments.
Cummings, L
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Conversational Agents, Humorous Act Construction, and Social Intelligence [PDF]

, 2005
Humans use humour to ease communication problems in human-human interaction and \ud in a similar way humour can be used to solve communication problems that arise\ud with human-computer interaction.
Nijholt, Anton
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Ketogenic diet for infantile epileptic spasms

Epilepsia Open, EarlyView.
Abstract Approximately half of all cases of Infantile Epileptic Spasms Syndrome (IESS) do not respond to vigabatrin and hormonal therapies. There is no clear consensus as to the second‐line therapy for IESS. Ketogenic diet (KD) has emerged as an effective treatment for certain drug‐resistant epilepsies and in many cases of IESS.
Morris H. Scantlebury, Anamika Choudhary, Andy Cheuk‐Him Ng, Cezar Gavrilovici   +3 more
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I Can't Split Myself in Two (or Five): Job Crafting in Highly Demanding and Interdependent Work Environments

Journal of Organizational Behavior, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Employees in highly demanding, interdependent work environments face a dilemma: while avoidance‐focused job crafting can preserve their own well‐being, these self‐initiated changes to their jobs could negatively affect coworkers. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 81 employees concurrently working for multiple agile teams in a European ...
Helene Tenzer, Martin Hoegl, Maria Tims, Philip Yang, Steffen Wütz   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source