Agora Center: Recent submissions
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Gaze position reveals impaired attentional shift during visual word recognition in dysfluent readers
(Public Library of Science, 2014)Effects reflecting serial within-word processing are frequently found in pseudo- and non-word recognition tasks not only among fluent, but especially among dyslexic readers. However, the time course and locus of these ... -
Citizens' Communication Habits and Use of ICTs During Crises and Emergencies
(Jyväskylän yliopisto, Agora Center, 2014)In this article, citizens’ communication habits and use of information and communication technologies during crises and emergencies are discussed from the perspective of community resilience. The topic is approached ... -
Emotional Business Intelligence : Enabling experience-centric business with the FeelingsExplorer
(Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), 2014)The domain of Emotional Business Intelligence (EBI) aims to support business-relevant emotional and emotionaware decisions in addition to rational decision making. EBI originates from three root domains: Emotional ... -
Considering Learners’ Perceptions in Designing Effective 21st Century Learning Environments for Basic Education in Finland
(Common Ground Publishing, 2014)Focusing on so called Key Competences or 21st Century Skills urges educational organizations to redesign their psychosocial and physical learning environments. Inspired by studies indicating that considering learners’ ... -
The GraphoGame Method: The Theoretical and Methodological Background of the Technology-Enhanced Learning Environment for Learning to Read
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Translating User Perspective into Spatial Design
(Open Education Europa, 2013)A rapid adoption of ICT innovations transforms the context of human activities and collaboration, the educational settings included. The context change at the same challenges the traditional spatial design paradigm calling ... -
Partial Sleep Restriction Activates Immune Response-Related Gene Expression Pathways: Experimental and Epidemiological Studies in Humans
(Public Library of Science, 2013)Epidemiological studies have shown that short or insufficient sleep is associated with increased risk for metabolic diseases and mortality. To elucidate mechanisms behind this connection, we aimed to identify genes and ... -
Actual and Potential Pedagogical Use of Tablets in Schools
(University of Jyväskylä, Agora Center, 2013)This study reviews the potential of tablet technology for teaching and learning. In autumn 2012, we conducted a focused survey comprising quantitative and qualitative questions with Finnish teachers (N = 171, from 54 ... -
Fault-proneness of open source software: Exploring its relations to internal software quality and maintenance process
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A voyage to Vardø - A scientific account of an unscientific expedition
(Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2013)After the “Venus Transit Conference” that took place at the University of Tromsø from June 2 to June 3, 2012, participants were given the opportunity to either stay in Tromsø until the night of June 5–6, or to participate ... -
The amateur astronomer Anders Hellant and the plight of his observations of the transits of Venus in Tornio, 1761 and 1769
(Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2013)Anders Hellant was a versatile Swedish amateur scientist whose figure dominated eighteenth century intellectual life in Tornio, his little home town of some 500 inhabitants at the mouth of the Tornio river. My study is ... -
Does training in syllable recognition improve reading speed? A computer-based trial with poor readers from second and third grade.
(Routledge, 2013)Repeated reading of infrequent syllables has been shown to increase reading speed at the word level in a transparent orthography. This study confirms these results with a computer-based training method and extends them by ... -
"Hyökkäys Moskovaan!" – Tapaus Raid over Moscow Suomen ja Neuvostoliiton välisessä ulkopolitiikassa 1980-luvulla
(Tampereen yliopisto, 2011)Artikkeli käsittelee Suomen ensimmäistä poliittisesti latautunutta tietokonepelikohua, joka syttyi helmikuussa vuonna 1985 MikroBitissä julkaistusta Raid over Moscow’n peliarvostelusta. Arvostelua seurannut julkinen kritiikki ... -
Measuring Distraction at the Levels of Tactical and Strategic Control: The Limits of Capacity-Based Measures for Revealing Unsafe Visual Sampling Models
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2011)The control theory of driving suggests that driver distraction can be analyzed as a breakdown of control at three levels. Common approach for analyzing distraction experimentally is to utilize capacity-based measures to ... -
Participation of the young ones in virtual worlds : A look at experiences and motivations
(Academic World Education & Research Center, 2011)Virtual worlds have become very popular and there have been some attempts to find the motivations and experiences of using them. The aim of this paper is to analyze the motivations and experiences of young ones to utilize ... -
ICT-Related Intangibles and Organizational Innovation: Indicators for Improving Connectedness and Flexibility
(University of Jyväskylä, Agora Center, 2012)In this paper we address the role of ICT-related intangible assets in organizational innovation. We focus on two important innovation enablers: first, connectedness, the ability of individuals to create and maintain ... -
Microinnovations among the paradigms of innovation research - what are the common ground issues
(Global Journals Inc., 2011)If we consider innovations as human action, this research has been dominated on one hand by social and policy making processes and, on the other, by organizational management thinking. In this study, we shall introduce ...