Centre for Cultural and Industrial Technologies Research (CiTech)
Presenters: Peter Nolan and Denis Reeve-Baker
Fri, 04 May 2012 12:00:00 BST
| Dates: | Friday 04 May 2012 |
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| Time: | 12:00 – 13:00 |
| Venue: | Room 0.20 Eldon Building University of Portsmouth Winston Churchill Avenue Portsmouth PO1 2DJ |
Effect of Motivational Goals on Technology Usage in Older People with Parkinson's Disease and Impaired Speech
Presenter: Peter Nolan
Abstract
Benefits and barriers exist to older adults using technology, for example some assistive technologies may offer opportunity for increased quality of life but may be initially unfamiliar or uncomfortable to use. It is proposed that how an assistive technology is regarded and approached will affect benefits obtained from its usage. An individual's implicit theories of intelligence (Dweck, Chiu, & Hong, 1995) can predispose them towards different types of goals on a given task, for example performance (seeking favourable / avoiding unfavourable judgements) or learning (seeking increased competence) goals predisposed by entity or incremental theories respectively. The research here intends to investigate motivational goals, relating them to technology usage. Manipulations will be presented to participants with Parkinson's disease who also demonstrating speech deficits, to prime them with entity or incremental implicit theories, prior to being introduced to an assistive speech and language therapy application implemented on a recent generation mobile device. It is predicted that participants presented with a manipulation priming an incremental theory will demonstrate more learning goals, resulting in more mastery oriented behaviour patterns. Perceived present ability has an influence on behaviour patterns in the presence of performance goals (Dweck, & Leggett, 1988), and it is predicted that participants presented with a manipulation priming an entity theory will demonstrate more performance goals, resulting in mastery oriented behaviour patterns if perceived present ability is high, or helpless behaviour patterns if low.
Old Fart At Play: Representation and Meaning in Popular Music
Presenter: Denis Reeve Baker
Abstract
This presentation seeks to introduce a basic framework for a project centred on the study of popular music. Central to this study are the ideas of representation and meaning and an understanding of where aesthetic value may lie within popular music.