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Social Media And Creativity: The Moderating Role Of Executive Functions, Joanne Qin Ying Tan
Social Media And Creativity: The Moderating Role Of Executive Functions, Joanne Qin Ying Tan
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Despite the potential for social media to promote creative potential, little is known about this direct relation and the process by which engagement with social media affects the production of creative ideas. This study puts forth a novel application of the Dual-Pathway to Creativity Model (DPCM) to understand the social media-creativity link. The results showed that social media can be used for normative (checking and browsing), interactive (“liking”), and generative (posting photos) purposes. After controlling for pertinent covariates, only normative use was negatively related to the flexibility pathway. When each aspect of executive functions (updating, inhibition, and shifting) was examined …
Exploiting Mobility For Predictive Urban Analytics & Operations, Kasthuri Jayarajah
Exploiting Mobility For Predictive Urban Analytics & Operations, Kasthuri Jayarajah
Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)
As cities worldwide invest heavily in smart city infrastructure, it invites opportunities for a next wave of urban analytics. Unlike its predecessors, urban analytics applications and services can now be real-time and proactive -- they can (a) leverage situational data from large deployments of connected sensors, (b) capture attributes of a variety of entities that make up the urban fabric (e.g., people and their social relationships, transport nodes, utilities, etc.), and (c) use predictive insights to both proactively optimize urban operations (e.g., HVAC systems in smart buildings, buses in the transportation network, crowd-workers, etc.) and promote smarter policy decisions (e.g., …