eInside Recognition
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Professional Activities
David Robins, School of Library and Information Science, presented "A Visual Orientation System for e-learning: To Use the Visual to Improve Student Experience" at the Customer Experience 2015 Conference on UX and Service Design in Copenhagen, Denmark, on March 2015.
Summary: The presentation described Robins' latest research on how the use of images, icons and symbols helps users navigate and quickly complete otherwise complex tasks on the Internet.
Richard Feinberg, Department of Anthropology, was a discussant for a formal symposium titled "First Fieldwork: 1960-1985" at the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on Feb. 3-7, 2015.
Marcia Lei Zeng, School of Library and Information Science, presented "A New Paradigm Shift Called Digital Art History" at the International Conference on Chen Cheng-po and Modern East Asian Art History in National Palace of Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, on Jan. 16 and 17, 2015.
Additional Comments: Zeng was an invited panelist on the session. She also was participating in research projects and training at the Academia Sinica Digital Center during her visit in Taipei in January.
Richard Feinberg, Department of Anthroplogy, was session co-organizer for "ASAO Histories" at the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on Feb. 3-7, 2015.
Publications
E. Thomas Dowd, professor emeritus in the Department of Psychological Sciences, authored a section of a book, "Tacit Knowledge Awareness and Its Role in Improving the Decision-Making Process in International Negotiations" in Handbook of International Negotiations: Interpersonal, Intercultural and Diplomatic Perspectives, 1st Ed., (New York, NY: Springer) Mauro Galluccio, Ed., (2015), 15-25.
Summary: Dowd describes several constructs of tacit knowledge structures that underlie the negotiation process, including the negotiators' culture, their religion, their native language, and the epistemologies and cognitive heuristics they use.
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Peter C. Kratcoski, professor emeritus in the Department of Sociology, Blake M. Randol and Lauren Block, authored a section of a book, "United States Legal System" in Trends in the Judiciary Volume Two, 1st Ed., (Boca Raton, Florida: CRCPress/ Taylor and Francis Group). David Lowe and Dilip K. Das, Eds. (2015), 197-200.
Yin Zhang, School of Library and Information Science, Cristobal Urbano, Tom Klinger, University Libraries, and Kay Downey, University Libraries, authored "An Evaluation of Patron-Driven Acquisitions (PDA) for eBooks at KSU Library," Computers in Libraries, Vol. 34, Issue 1, (2014): 10-13.
Steven R. Brown, Kent State’s Evaluation and Measurement Program, Stentor Danielson and Job van Exel, authored "Overly ambitious critics and the Medici Effect: A reply to Kampen and Tamás," Quality & Quantity, Vol. 49, Issue 2, (2015): 523-537.
Summary: This article is a response to Kampen and Tamás's "Overly Ambitious: Contributions and Current Status of Q Methodology," Quality & Quantity, 2014.