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Computer Science, Mathematics, and Science
This department is a member of the ICISI ("Institut de Commerce International et des Sciences de l'Information")
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 

Information and Communication Technologies is an emerging discipline that intersects and informs the humanities, environmental and health sciences, social sciences, mathematics, business/financial markets and communications networks.

 

The ICT major will provide the core background in information science and communications technologies needed by today’s students to succeed in a variety of careers and fields of study. It will also address the increasing need to apply both theoretical analysis and technological solutions to multidisciplinary endeavors, in order to prepare students for a rapidly changing global career market.

 

Both major and minor enable active (hands-on) learning, the sharing of knowledge and research across disciplines, and the chance to design effective communication networks, computational and scientific systems. The combination of practical models with theoretical approaches will foster the flexibility needed in order to succeed in today’s global arena..

 

 
 
 

 

 
 

 
 
 
 

 

 

 
 

Claudia Roda has recently published three papers describing her ongoing research on attention-aware systems. The paper "Attention support in digital environments, nine questions to be addressed" forthcoming in the journal New Ideas in Psychology (Elsevier) suggests a model of attention within the interactivist framework, and proposes research questions for the creation of attention aware systems. The paper "Attention management for dynamic and adaptive scaffolding" (with Inge Molenaar), which appeared in Pragmatics & Cognition 16(2) (John Benjamins), proposes that dynamic and adaptive scaffolds can be provided by observing and responding-to learners' attentional processes. The results obtained testing a system that implements such attention-based scaffolding show an improvement in students' performance and motivation. The paper "Attention management in organizations: Four levels of support in information systems" (with Thierry Nabeth) to appear in the book Organisational Capital: Modelling, measuring, contextualising edited by A. Bounfour (Routledge) proposes a four layered model for attention support in digital environments.

[AUP - Posted 3 Nov 2008]

 
 
 
 

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