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Exploratory User Research for Computational Resource for South Asian Languages (open access)

Exploratory User Research for Computational Resource for South Asian Languages

Report for the project, Exploratory User Research for CoRSAL, which was an exploratory ethnographic study to generate a foundational understanding of how different user groups might use a planned language archive for South Asian languages. Their research project was to be used by the CoRSAL team to help plan the design of CoRSAL’s infrastructure, and laid the groundwork for further studies that will take a deeper look at issues surrounding the design and use of the planned language archive.
Date: December 7, 2016
Creator: Al Smadi, Duha; Barnes, Sebastian; Blair, Molly; Chong, Miyoung; Cole-Jett, Robin; Davis, Aaron et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Using a Partial Sum Method and GPS Tracking Data to Identify Area Restricted Search by Artisanal Fishers at Moored Fish Aggregating Devices in the Commonwealth of Dominica (open access)

Using a Partial Sum Method and GPS Tracking Data to Identify Area Restricted Search by Artisanal Fishers at Moored Fish Aggregating Devices in the Commonwealth of Dominica

This article reports on research to identify area-restricted search foraging behavior at fish aggregating device (FAD) patches.
Date: February 3, 2015
Creator: Alvard, Michael; Carlson, David & McGaffey, Ethan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Legislative Ambiguity and Ontological Hierarchy in US Sacred Land Law (open access)

Legislative Ambiguity and Ontological Hierarchy in US Sacred Land Law

This article demonstrates instances in which sacred site law was construed so narrowly as to a priori preclude indigenous ways of knowing, particularly in regards to the nature of land, use of sacred objects, and pollution.
Date: September 1, 2017
Creator: Dunstan, Adam
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sacredness and Ski Resorts: Being Human and Being in Conflict (open access)

Sacredness and Ski Resorts: Being Human and Being in Conflict

This paper situates anti-snowmaking sentiments in Navajo concepts of sacredness.
Date: 2012
Creator: Dunstan, Adam
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
What Was Damaged?: Taking Sacred Ecology into Account in Environmental Impact Assessment (open access)

What Was Damaged?: Taking Sacred Ecology into Account in Environmental Impact Assessment

This article argues that any analysis of environmental impacts on indigenous communities must also consider the ways in which changes in environmental quality have harmed indigenous ways of sacredly connecting to the environment.
Date: 2012
Creator: Dunstan, Adam
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
"With Anything Manmade There is Going to be Danger": The Cultural Context of Navajo Opinions Regarding Snowmaking on the San Francisco Peaks (open access)

"With Anything Manmade There is Going to be Danger": The Cultural Context of Navajo Opinions Regarding Snowmaking on the San Francisco Peaks

This article explores the perspectives of Navajo living in Leupp, Arizona, who object to a plan to use artificial snow on the San Francisco peaks.
Date: 2010
Creator: Dunstan, Adam
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Language Archiving: Where We've Been and Where We're Going

This NSF-funded workshop initiated a research trajectory that brings the fields of language archives and user-centered design (UCD) into dialogue, with the goal of improving users’ experiences with language archives and making them more accessible and useful to diverse user groups. The workshop documented perspectives of key stakeholder groups and generated initial conceptual frameworks to guide further research. This slide deck accompanied the presentation by Gary Holton on language archiving.
Date: February 20, 2016
Creator: Holton, Gary
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Prestigious Houses or Provisional Homes? The ghar as a Symbol of Kathmandu Valley Peri-Urbanism (open access)

Prestigious Houses or Provisional Homes? The ghar as a Symbol of Kathmandu Valley Peri-Urbanism

This article considers an alternative formulation of urban planning generated by three-plus decades of economic and governmental liberalization.
Date: July 16, 2012
Creator: Nelson, Andrew S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
“We Need an Even Bigger One”: Disasters of Inequality in Postquake Kathmandu Valley (open access)

“We Need an Even Bigger One”: Disasters of Inequality in Postquake Kathmandu Valley

This article reflects on the 2015 earthquakes in Nepal.
Date: October 14, 2015
Creator: Nelson, Andrew S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Do I Look Illegal? Undocumented Latino/a Students and the Challenges of Life in the Shadows

This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on Unauthorized Immigration. This presentation discusses illegal immigration and the challenges for undocumented Latino/a students.
Date: April 13, 2011
Creator: Nuñez-Janes, Mariela & Chapa, Shaun
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
IamWe: Digital Storytelling, Personal Journeys, and Praxis (open access)

IamWe: Digital Storytelling, Personal Journeys, and Praxis

This chapter discusses the practice of digital storytelling as it relates to personal growth among high school youth who were part of the IamWe program.
Date: 2017
Creator: Nuñez-Janes, Mariela & Franco, David Oliveira, Jr.
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library

Stakeholder Groups

This NSF-funded workshop initiated a research trajectory that brings the fields of language archives and user-centered design (UCD) into dialogue, with the goal of improving users’ experiences with language archives and making them more accessible and useful to diverse user groups. The workshop documented perspectives of key stakeholder groups and generated initial conceptual frameworks to guide further research. This slide deck accompanied all presentations by workshop participants on the perspectives of stakeholder groups.
Date: February 20, 2016
Creator: Roy, Loriene; Baldwin, Daryl; Alexander, Edward; Leonard, Wesley Y.; Shepard, Michael; Berez-Kroeker, Andrea et al.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Problems of HIV/AIDS infected women in Manipur: agenda for policy change (open access)

Problems of HIV/AIDS infected women in Manipur: agenda for policy change

This article explores the problems of HIV/AIDS infected women in Manipur, India.
Date: January 18, 2017
Creator: Singh, M. Romesh
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Caution and Consensus in American Business Meetings (open access)

Caution and Consensus in American Business Meetings

This article focuses on the ways in which cautiousness is exercised to achieve consensus in American business meetings.
Date: 2000
Creator: Wasson, Christina
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Two Reflections on the Symbolic Position of Business Anthology (open access)

Two Reflections on the Symbolic Position of Business Anthology

This article provides comments and reflection on the symbolic position of business anthropology with mainstream anthropology.
Date: 2014
Creator: Wasson, Christina
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

User-Centered Design

This NSF-funded workshop initiated a research trajectory that brings the fields of language archives and user-centered design (UCD) into dialogue, with the goal of improving users’ experiences with language archives and making them more accessible and useful to diverse user groups. The workshop documented perspectives of key stakeholder groups and generated initial conceptual frameworks to guide further research. This slide deck accompanied the presentation by Christina Wasson on user-centered design.
Date: February 20, 2016
Creator: Wasson, Christina
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Workshop on User-Centered Design of Language Archives: Table of Contents (open access)

Workshop on User-Centered Design of Language Archives: Table of Contents

This table of contents shows the relationships among the transcript summaries, videos, and audio files associated with the Workshop on User-Centered Design of Language Archives.
Date: July 15, 2016
Creator: Wasson, Christina
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
"No More Cakes and Ale?" Discovering Ethical Gray Areas in a Design Anthropology Class (open access)

"No More Cakes and Ale?" Discovering Ethical Gray Areas in a Design Anthropology Class

This article examines how ethics were learned in a design anthropology class.
Date: 2014
Creator: Wasson, Christina; Aiken, Jo & Schlieder, Victoria
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bringing User-Centered Design to the Field of Language Archives (open access)

Bringing User-Centered Design to the Field of Language Archives

This article describes findings from a workshop that initiated a dialogue between the fields of user-centered design (UCD) and language archives.
Date: November 16, 2016
Creator: Wasson, Christina; Holton, Gary & Roth, Heather
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Findings from the Workshop on User-Centered Design of Language Archives (open access)

Findings from the Workshop on User-Centered Design of Language Archives

This white paper comprehensively describes the insights that emerged from the Workshop on User-Centered Design of Language Archives. Key topics include a typology of language archives, the perspectives of stakeholder groups, and improving access to language archives.
Date: July 25, 2016
Creator: Wasson, Christina; Holton, Gary & Roth, Heather
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcript Summary 1: Introduction and Background (open access)

Transcript Summary 1: Introduction and Background

This document provides a transcript summary of the first part of the Workshop on User-Centered Design of Language Archives; it contains an overview of language archives by Gary Holton and an overview of user-centered design by Christina Wasson.
Date: July 15, 2016
Creator: Wasson, Christina; Holton, Gary & Roth, Heather
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcript Summary 2: Individual Presentations by Workshop Participants: Perspectives of Stakeholder Groups (open access)

Transcript Summary 2: Individual Presentations by Workshop Participants: Perspectives of Stakeholder Groups

This document provides a transcript summary of the second part of Workshop on User-Centered Design of Language Archives; it contains a detailed summary of individual presentations by all workshop participants on the perspectives of stakeholder groups.
Date: July 15, 2016
Creator: Wasson, Christina; Holton, Gary & Roth, Heather
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcript Summary 3: Saturday Discussion (open access)

Transcript Summary 3: Saturday Discussion

This document provides a transcript summary of the third part of Workshop on User-Centered Design of Language Archives; it contains a detailed summary of discussions on the first day of the workshop.
Date: July 15, 2016
Creator: Wasson, Christina; Holton, Gary & Roth, Heather
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcript Summary 4: Sunday Discussion (open access)

Transcript Summary 4: Sunday Discussion

This document provides a transcript summary of the fourth part of Workshop on User-Centered Design of Language Archives; it contains a detailed summary of discussions on the second day of the workshop.
Date: July 15, 2016
Creator: Wasson, Christina; Holton, Gary & Roth, Heather
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library