Posters (Asynchronous Session)
A Mixed-method Collaborative Evaluation Approach to Psychotherapy View Digital Media
Poster Session Michael Mitchell, Michelle Rincones Rodriguez
The Model for Collaborative Evaluations (MCE) was used to evaluate whether personal characteristics are associated with a multi-pillar, base 22-numbered scale. The MCE provided a baseline for formative and summative decision-making. A questionnaire and structured interviews were used to collect data from international community members. Psychotherapy Base22 offers a compass to search for the path that leads to psychological balance. It affords advantages like gaining specific insight for psychologists to use as a tool to provide individualized therapy. Humans are not defined by a single number, but by an interrelation of all the pillars in the construct. In Psychotherapy Base22, there are no good or bad, positive or negative numbers, just harmony or disharmony with numbers, which may guide those in the search for personal balance. Implications from the results of this collaborative evaluation are highlighted, including specific stakeholders’ perceptions, along with ways of using Psychotherapy Base22 with other stakeholders.
Everyday Multicultural Studies and Their Limitations: At the Crossroads of Geography and Sociology View Digital Media
Poster Session Takeo Suzuki
At the beginning of this century, Stuart Hall posed the "multicultural question": how can we co-create a shared social world in so diverse postcolonial situation? Regardless of the rise and fall of the political ideology of "multiculturalism", this question remains even more significant in the time when "multiculturality" as a politico-cultural situation expands and deepens. Over the past two decades, important lines of studies have responded to the multicultural question from the perspective that focuses on everydayness. These studies have distanced themselves from the hustle and bustle of the debates around multiculturalism and instead explored how exactly diverse people feel and negotiate their differences in their everyday lives. In this presentation, firstly I overview these studies and explain their main perspective and importance by summing up them as everyday multicultural studies. Studies that focus on everyday multicultural situation have developed mainly in human geography in England and sociology in Australia, but these two lines of literature have not been clearly interlinked while they share their main perspective. Therefore, by synthesizing them, I present a clearer overview of the studies. Based on this work, secondly, I point significant limitation of them. That is, focusing on everydayness leads them to collectively forget the coloniality of it while everyday “multicultural” situations are at the same time undoubtedly “postcolonial”. This pointing out is not mainly for criticizing the studies, but for opening it up again and questioning together how we can think of everyday multiculturality and historical (but present) coloniality together.
Visual Communication Support Kit for Treating Patients with Developmental Disabilities View Digital Media
Poster Session Jieun Kwon, Youngsun Lee, Hyelin Kim, Kim Jusung, Chaewon Lim
Individuals with developmental disabilities often face difficulty when receiving a medical care. The main problem takes place because patients struggle with expressing their pain and symptoms through verbal means. Consequently, medical professionals often end up mis-diagnosing due to a lack of information and miscommunication about the symptoms. To improve the communication between the patients with developmental disabilities and the medical service providers, this study focuses on the development of a visual communication support kit and its effectiveness. Using storyboards based on real events, the kit consists of three books and printed visual aid that differs from other Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) tools in that it is specifically designed to help medical professionals and caregivers understand and properly help patients with developmental disabilities. In this study, the authors introduce the process of the communication kit development, and examine the appropriateness through expert interviews as well as its effectiveness in the field. For further use of the toolkit, this paper also proposes a digitalization of the visual aid, and a guideline for future digital communication aid designed to help patients with developmental disabilities.
Campus Planning + Environmental Design: Constructing Spaces Promoting Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion View Digital Media
Poster Session R.J. Multari
American college students represent more diverse backgrounds than ever, and higher education considers this a value-added benefit for their campus populations. When looking at the mission, vision, and values of almost any institution of American higher education today, you will find three words: equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI). Campus planners and environmental designers think in physical places and spaces, and must develop constructed environments that support institutional student retention, persistence, and graduation goals, as well as overall academic success. How can campus planners, environmental designers, and institutional partners ensure the physical environment is equitable, inclusive, and welcoming to diverse student populations of the twenty-first century?
The Evolution of the Concept of Aesthetic Taste: Understanding Its Complexity and Subjectivity View Digital Media
Poster Session María Moná, Lina M. Ceballos, Jorge Maya
Taste is one of the most subjective, complex, and relevant concepts in human communities because of its ability to unite and differentiate individuals and objects founded on personal opinions and experiences. However, scholars from numerous disciplines have not agreed on what should be the definition of taste and whether it is possible to achieve consensus. The present study systematically reviews the literature on aesthetic taste from a multidisciplinary perspective to better understand the concept, historical evolution, and multiple definitions. Thematic analysis reveal three general themes that explore definitions of taste, including certain variations of the definition within each theme. Based on philosophical discussions, theme one relates to taste as a vehicle for perceiving beauty. This view of taste considers the feelings and virtues arising from the experience of taste. Theme two, primarily derived from the sociology literature, addresses the relationship between taste, identity, and social structures, in which mechanisms, skills, narratives, practices, and systems and regimes of taste are involved. The last theme, three, is mainly based on the literature on experimental psychology and design and proposes taste as a cognitive pleasure that could be utilized as a result of the aesthetic experience (i.e., evaluation) or as an influence on the aesthetic experience (i.e., moderator). Revising, classifying, and integrating literature on taste introduces an alternative perspective on the topic beyond a merely analytical approach. Findings clarify the complexity surrounding the concept of aesthetic taste in multidisciplinary scenarios through an initial differentiation of discourses and grouping of definitions.
Creating Minds: The Interplay Between Cognitive Science's Interdisciplinary Nature and Society View Digital Media
Poster Session Michael Root
I examine how the conceptual, material, and social practices of the interdisciplinary field of cognitive science created a new way by which society construed human minds. Conceptually, cognitive scientists provided the metaphor of "computer-as-mind," which allowed people to shift their understanding of human minds away from the more dominant hydraulic metaphors used by Descartes and Freud to the digital computer. Materially, cognitive scientists created forms of artificial intelligence which allowed people to move beyond philosophical abstractions about minds to concrete interactions with tangible software programs that seemed to think and reason in a similar way to humans. Socially, cognitive scientists were able to obtain sizable amounts of funding for their research, thus establishing their perspective on human minds as a credible scientific endeavor. I argue that it was the interdisciplinary nature of cognitive science—the interchange between cognitive psychologists, philosophers of mind, computer scientists, among others—that fostered a new understanding of human minds that could not have been achieved by any single discipline, alone.
Global Climate Change, European Green Deal, and Challenges Resulting from Countries’ Energy Mix: The Case of Poland View Digital Media
Poster Session Tomasz Kubin
Climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing mankind in the 21st century. Slowing Earth’s warming is a global problem, that cannot be solved without a fair cooperation all major economies. This challenge was taken up by the European Union, that for several years has clearly accelerated actions in the field of energy and preventing climate change. The European Green Deal is another of the EU “grand projects”, the implementation of which will have extremely significant consequences for the economies and social life of the EU inhabitants. Due to its enormous economic and social importance, European Green Deal is also a project with very far-reaching political implications. The consequences of the reforms that make up the European Green Deal for individual states result, inter alia, from the starting point of meeting the demand for energy, i.e. the energy mix of a given country. In several very important aspects, Poland is a specific case in this context. Therefore, the aim of the paper is to identify and briefly analyze the most important challenges – economic, social and political – resulting from the implementation of the European Green Deal, discussed on the example of Poland. The starting point will be a short presentation of the most important goals/assumptions of the European Green Deal. Then, the Polish energy mix are outlined, compared to other EU states. On this basis, the most important problems and challenges related to the implementation of the European Green Deal are identified.
