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Appraisal theories suggest that art is experienced as interesting after being analyzed through a novelty check and coping-potential check, which analyze the art's newness of experience for the viewer, and the viewer's ability to understand the new experience. Experimental evidence suggests that art is preferred when th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_and_emotion |
A newer take on this theory focuses on the consequences of the emotions elicited from art, both positive and negative. The original theory argues that positive emotions are the result of a biobehavioral reward system, where a person feels a positive emotion when they have completed a personal goal. These emotional rewa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_and_emotion |
However, these theories have not often focused on negative emotions, especially negative emotional experiences from art. These emotions are central to experimental aesthetics research in order to understand why people have negative, rejecting, condemning, or censoring reactions to works of art. By showing research part... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_and_emotion |
Other psychologists believe that emotions are of minimal functionality, and are used to move a person towards incentives and away from threats. Therefore, positive emotions are felt upon the attainment of a goal, and negative emotions when a goal has failed to be achieved. The basic states of pleasure or pain can be ad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_and_emotion |
Other theorists have focused their models on the disrupting and unique experience that comes from the interacting with a powerful work of art. An early model focused on a two-part experience: facile recognition and meta-cognitive perception, or the experience of the work of art and the mind's analysis of that experienc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_and_emotion |
The first stage of this model focuses on the viewer's expectations of the work before seeing it, based on their previous experiences, their observational strategies, and the relation of the work to themselves. Viewers who tend to appreciate art, or know more about it will have different expectations at this stage than ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_and_emotion |
After viewing the work of art, people will make an initial judgment and classification of the work, often based on their preconceptions of the work. After initial classification, viewers attempt to understand the motive and meaning of the work, which can then inform their perception of the work, creating a cycle of cha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_and_emotion |
When an individual finds a discrepancy in their understanding that cannot be resolved or ignored, they move to the third stage of their interaction with a work of art. At this point, interaction with the work has switched from lower-order and unconscious processes to higher-order cognitive involvement, and tension and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_and_emotion |
If viewers cannot escape or reassess the work, they are forced to reassess the self and their interactions with works of art. This experience of self-awareness through a work of art is often externally caused, rather than internally motivated, and starts a transformative process to understand the meaning of the discrep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_and_emotion |
After the self-transformation and change in expectations, the viewer resets their interaction with the work, and begins the process anew with deeper self-understanding and cognitive mastery of the artwork. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_and_emotion |
In order to research emotional responses to art, researchers often rely on behavioral data. But new psychophysiological methods of measuring emotional response are beginning to be used, such as the measurement of pupillary response. Pupil responses have been predicted to indicate image pleasantness and emotional arousa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_and_emotion |
After viewing Cubist paintings of varying complexity, abstraction, and familiarity, participants' pupil responses were greatest when viewing aesthetically pleasing artwork, and highly accessible art, or art low in abstraction. Pupil responses also correlated with personal preferences of the cubist art. High pupil respo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_and_emotion |
These effects are also seen when investigating the Western preference for left-facing portraits. This skew towards left-cheek is found in the majority of Western portraits, and is rated as more pleasing than other portrait orientations. Theories for this preference suggest that the left side of the face as more emotion... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_and_emotion |
Left-facing portraits were rated as more pleasant, even when mirrored to appear right-facing, suggesting that people are more attracted to more emotional facial depictions.This research was continued, using portraits by Rembrandt featuring females with a left-cheek focus and males with a right-cheek focus. Researchers ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_and_emotion |
In comparison to previous studies, increased pupil size was only found for male portraits with a right-cheek preference. This may be because the portraits were viewed as domineering, and the subsequent pupil response was due to unpleasantness. As pupil dilation is more indicative of strength of emotional response than ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_and_emotion |
Art is also used as an emotional regulator, most often in Art Therapy sessions. Art therapy is a form of therapy that uses artistic activities such as painting, sculpture, sketching, and other crafts to allow people to express their emotions and find meaning in that art to find trauma and ways to experience healing. St... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_and_emotion |
Venting through art is the process of using art to attend to and discharge negative emotions. However, research has shown venting to be a less effective method of emotional regulation. Research participants asked to draw either an image related to a sad movie they just watched, or a neutral house, demonstrated less neg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_and_emotion |
Distraction is the process of creating art to oppose, or in spite of negative emotions. This can also take the form of fantasizing, or creating an opposing positive to counteract a negative affect. Research has demonstrated that distractive art making activities improve mood greater than venting activities. Distractive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_and_emotion |
The British Humanities Index is a database published by ProQuest that indexes journals, magazines, and newspapers published in Great Britain and other English-speaking countries. The Oxford guide to library research described it as a "particularly good British source," stating that it had "headings of its own devising.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Humanities_Index |
Attention theft is a theory in economic sociology and psychology which describes situations in which marketers serve advertisements to consumers who have not consented to view them and who are given nothing in return. Perpetrators seek to distract targets with their advertising content, thereby commandeering their atte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_theft |
People are susceptible to attention theft because they tend by default to pay attention to whatever stimuli in their environment are most noticeable, a phenomenon known in psychology as exogenous orienting. Advertisers are able to serve content deliberately engineered to be distracting, making it difficult to ignore. E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_theft |
Commonly cited examples of attention theft include billboards, apps that send out promotional notifications, sound trucks, email spam, and TV screens with mostly or entirely promotional content in locations with a captive audience, such as gas stations, airplanes, waiting rooms, and taxis. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_theft |
Critics of attention theft characterize it as a type of unethical marketing. They argue that it contributes to information overload, leading to negative health outcomes, and infringes upon freedom of thought. Writing in Wired in 2017, legal scholar Tim Wu urged municipal governments to pass laws prohibiting some instan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_theft |
Hamburg Stadtpark (Hamburger Stadtpark) is a large urban park in the district of Winterhude, in the Hamburg borough of Hamburg-Nord. Spanning an area of 148 hectares (366 acres), it is the second-largest park in the city after Altona Volkspark. The Stadtpark is regarded as the "green heart" of Hamburg, despite being lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg_Stadtpark |
Like many cities during the Age of Industrialization, Hamburg grew substantially in the later decades of the 19th century and many former open spaces had been built over. In order to counterbalance this development, in 1901 the Senate of Hamburg and Hamburg Parliament agreed to purchase the so-called Sierich Grove (Sie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg_Stadtpark |
In June 1909, Fritz Schumacher was made director of the city's Department of Planning and Building Inspection, and in January 1910 he and Fritz Sperber presented a design to the Parliament which was subsequently approved. The park was opened four years later, though it would be another 14 years before it was finally co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg_Stadtpark |
The park's most famous landmark is the Hamburg Planetarium, a former water tower. At night, the tower is illuminated in various colours. The 64-metre-tall brick tower was designed by Oskar Menzel and built in 1914. Since 1930 it has housed Germany's largest planetarium. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg_Stadtpark |
The tower is located in the western half of the park and can be reached via a 500-metre-long avenue on its eastern side. This avenue leads onto the Great Meadow (Festwiese), which borders onto the artificial Stadtpark Lake (Stadtparksee). Midway, the park is crossed by a street. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg_Stadtpark |
Most of the park's western half and the park's edges are made up of wild woods. Around the edge of the park there are also a number of sporting grounds and sporting halls, an outdoor lido and an athletics stadium. Dozens of playgrounds and sport facilities are spread throughout the park. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg_Stadtpark |
The home stadium of Hamburg Rugby Club is at Saarlandstraße in the north-east of the park. In the very north-eastern corner lies the Freilichtbühne, an open air stage for music concerts. The lake is connected to Hamburg's extensive network of waterways via the Goldbekkanal. Alster ferries run services between the Stadt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg_Stadtpark |
22 privately sponsored pieces of mostly stone and bronze public art are displayed throughout Hamburg Stadtpark. Here are some of them: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg_Stadtpark |
In the application of statistics to advertising and media analysis, reach refers to the total number of different people or households exposed, at least once, to a medium during a given period. Reach should not be confused with the number of people who will actually be exposed to and consume the advertising, though. It... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reach_(advertising) |
For any given viewer, they have been "reached" by the work if they have viewed it at all (or a specified amount) during the specified period. Multiple viewings by a single member of the audience in the cited period do not increase reach; however, media people use the term effective reach to describe the quality of expo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reach_(advertising) |
Since reach is a time-dependent summary of aggregate audience behavior, reach figures are meaningless without a period associated with them: an example of a valid reach figure would be to state that " had a one-day reach of 1565 per million on 21 March 2004" (though unique users, an equivalent measure, would be a more ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reach_(advertising) |
Similarly, for radio, RAJAR defines the weekly reach of a radio station as the number of people who tune into a radio station for at least 5 minutes (within at least one 15 min period) in a given week.Reach is an important measure for the BBC, which is funded by a mandatory licence fee. It seeks to maximise its reach t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reach_(advertising) |
The following formulas are used to calculate the reach of a marketing campaign. F=I/U Where F is the frequency I is the total number of impressions U is the total number of unique users | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reach_(advertising) |
A leucotome or McKenzie leucotome is a surgical instrument used for performing leucotomies (also known as lobotomy) and other forms of psychosurgery. Invented by Canadian neurosurgeon Dr. Kenneth G. McKenzie in the 1940s, the leucotome has a narrow shaft which is inserted into the brain through a hole in the skull, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucotome |
Another, different, surgical instrument also called a leucotome was introduced by Walter Freeman for use in the transorbital lobotomy. Modeled after an ice-pick, it consisted simply of a pointed shaft. It was passed through the tear duct under the eyelid and against the top of the eyesocket. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucotome |
A mallet was used to drive the instrument through the thin layer of bone and into the brain along the plane of the bridge of the nose, to a depth of 5 cm. Due to incidents of breakage, a stronger but essentially identical instrument called an orbitoclast was later used. Lobotomies were commonly performed from the 1930s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucotome |
The Artificial Intelligence Cold War (AI Cold War) is a narrative in which tensions between the United States and the People's Republic of China lead to a second Cold War waged in the area of artificial intelligence technology rather than in the areas of nuclear capabilities or ideology. The context of the AI Cold War ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence_Cold_War |
The term AI Cold War first appeared in 2018 in an article in Wired magazine by Nicholas Thompson and Ian Bremmer. The two authors trace the emergence of the AI Cold War narrative to 2017, when China published its AI Development Plan, which included a strategy aimed at becoming the global leader in AI by 2030. While the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence_Cold_War |
Politico contributed to reinforcing the AI Cold War narrative. In 2020, the paper argued that because of the increasing AI capabilities of China, the US and other democratic countries have to create an alliance to stay ahead of China.Former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt, together with Graham T. Allison alleged in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence_Cold_War |
US politicians and European industry players have invoked the looming AI Cold War as a reason to ban procurement by public authorities in Europe of Huawei 5G technology due to concerns over the Chinese state-sponsored surveillance industry.In 2019, the Trump administration successfully lobbied the Dutch government into... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence_Cold_War |
In June 2021, the US Senate approved the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act providing around 250 billion US dollars public money support to the US technological and manufacturing industry. The alleged Chinese threat in the area of technology helped secure a strong bipartisan support for the new legislation, amounting ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence_Cold_War |
Chinese authorities reproached to the US that the bill was “full of cold war zero-sum thinking”.The legislative bill is aimed at strengthening capabilities in the area of technology, such as quantum computing and AI specifically to face the competitive threat from China perceived as urgent. Senator Chuck Schumer, the l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence_Cold_War |
In February 2022, the European Union introduced its own European Chips Act initiative. The background of the initiative would be the objective of European strategic autonomy. The EU's initiative puts forward subsidies of 30 billion euros to encourage manufacturing of semiconductors in the EU. The company US Intel is on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence_Cold_War |
Concerns have been expressed by academics and observers about the validity and soundness of the AI Cold War narrative. Denise Garzia expressed concern in Nature that the AI Cold War narrative will undermine the efforts by the US to establish global rules for AI ethics. Researchers have warned in MIT Technology Review t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence_Cold_War |
The dissemination of the AI Cold War narrative could therefore be costly and destructive and exacerbate existing tensions.Joanna Bryson and Helena Malikova have pointed to Big Tech's potential interest in promoting the AI Cold War narrative, as technology companies lobby for less onerous regulation of AI in the US and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence_Cold_War |
Prehistoric painted pebbles are found from two unrelated cultures in Europe: The Epipalaeolithic Azilian (sometimes called the "Painted Pebble culture") of north Spain and southern France, some 14,000 to 10,000 years ago Pictish painted pebbles from north-east Scotland, some 1500 years ago | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painted_pebbles |
Vincenzo Galasso is Professor of economics at Bocconi University focusing on political economics, political economy, | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenzo_Galasso |
Born in Naples, Galasso read for a Bachelors in economics from Bocconi. He then proceeded to earn a PhD in Economics from UCLA. Galasso has taught economics at Universidad Carlos III in 1996; at Bocconi since 2002 where he was an associate professor of economics. He briefly assumed professorship at Università della Svi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenzo_Galasso |
Galasso has studied the political economy of structural reforms, the political economy of the US Social Security reform. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenzo_Galasso |
Parque del Tricentenario is a passive urban park in the city of Ponce, Puerto Rico. The park was built to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the founding of the city. It was inaugurated during the mayoral administration of mayor Rafael Cordero Santiago. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parque_del_Tricentenario_(Ponce,_Puerto_Rico) |
The park is a passive urban family park. It is located in Barrio Tercero at the entrance to the Ponce Historic Zone on Miguel Pou Boulevard, at the southern terminus of PR-1. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parque_del_Tricentenario_(Ponce,_Puerto_Rico) |
The park is a three-plaza park. All three plazas have gardens and marble benches. Setting the stage for the park is El Puente de los Leones (The Bridge of the Lions). It spans Rio Portugues and is the gateway to, not just Parque del Tricentenario, but to the Ponce historical district as well. It features two brass lion... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parque_del_Tricentenario_(Ponce,_Puerto_Rico) |
Its centerpiece is a plaza containing a fountain dedicated to Ponce's most illustrious citizens. This plaza is known as Parque de los Ponceños Ilustres (the Illustrious Ponce Citizens Plaza). At either side of this plaza, and tucked in somewhat but facing side streets that lead to and return from the center of the city... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parque_del_Tricentenario_(Ponce,_Puerto_Rico) |
A large wall near Hernandez Colon's right plazalette has the encryption, "Ponce es del que nos visita. Ponce es nuestro" (Ponce belongs to those who visit us. Ponce is ours). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parque_del_Tricentenario_(Ponce,_Puerto_Rico) |
The middle area is the largest area of this plaza. It contains a very large fountain and behind the fountain are 24 "kiosks" with fountainettes. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parque_del_Tricentenario_(Ponce,_Puerto_Rico) |
Sixteen of these fountainette kiosks are dedicated to illustrious Ponce citizens in 16 different areas of endeavor. Moving from left to right, these twelve areas are: History, Politics, Journalism, Writing, Architecture, Citizenship, Medicine, Music, Craftsmanship, Education, Sports, Plastic Arts, Law, Business, Ponceñ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parque_del_Tricentenario_(Ponce,_Puerto_Rico) |
The second major plaza, called the Plaza de la Arquitectura Francisco Porrata Doria (Francisco Porrata Doria Architecture Plaza), features a rotunda and honors the city's architecture. On the rotunda's outer crown is the following encryption: "Ponce es Tradicion, Cultura, Espiritu, Civismo, Ilusion. Ponce es Virtud." (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parque_del_Tricentenario_(Ponce,_Puerto_Rico) |
Ponce is Virtue.") The same rotunda has another encryption on its floor that reads: "Estabilidad, Durabilidad, Conveniencia, Belleza, Firmeza." ("Estability, Durability, Convenience, Beauty, Resolution.") To the right of this plaza is the bust of governor Roberto Sanchez Vilella who, though not born in Ponce, did lived... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parque_del_Tricentenario_(Ponce,_Puerto_Rico) |
The third major plaza honors Latin American statesmen and it is called Plaza de los Próceres Latinoamericanos (Latin-American Statesmen Plaza). This third plaza is dedicated to Simón Bolívar, Juan Pablo Duarte, José Martí, and Luis Muñoz Marín, and there are statues of these prominent people there. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parque_del_Tricentenario_(Ponce,_Puerto_Rico) |
The park was inaugurated in 1992 under the administration of mayor Rafael Cordero Santiago. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parque_del_Tricentenario_(Ponce,_Puerto_Rico) |
The entrance of the park, via Puente de Los Leones, is guarded by two massive pillars each topped by a lion - one the symbol of knowledge, the other the symbol of power. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parque_del_Tricentenario_(Ponce,_Puerto_Rico) |
Agency is the capacity of an actor to act in a given environment. It is independent of the moral dimension, which is called moral agency. In sociology, an agent is an individual engaging with the social structure. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_(philosophy) |
Notably, though, the primacy of social structure vs. individual capacity with regard to persons' actions is debated within sociology. This debate concerns, at least partly, the level of reflexivity an agent may possess.Agency may either be classified as unconscious, involuntary behavior, or purposeful, goal directed ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_(philosophy) |
Agency is contrasted to objects reacting to natural forces involving only unthinking deterministic processes. In this respect, agency is subtly distinct from the concept of free will, the philosophical doctrine that our choices are not the product of causal chains, but are significantly free or undetermined. Human agen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_(philosophy) |
The capacity of a human to act as an agent is personal to that human, though considerations of the outcomes flowing from particular acts of human agency for us and others can then be thought to invest a moral component into a given situation wherein an agent has acted, and thus to involve moral agency. If a situation i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_(philosophy) |
The philosophical discipline in charge of studying agency is action theory. In certain philosophical traditions (particularly those established by Hegel and Marx), human agency is a collective, historical dynamic, rather than a function arising out of individual behavior. Hegel's Geist and Marx's universal class are id... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_(philosophy) |
There is ongoing debate, philosophically derived in part from the works of Hume, between determinism and indeterminacy. Structure and agency forms an enduring core debate in sociology. Essentially the same as in the Marxist conception, "agency" refers to the capacity of individuals to act independently and to make thei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_(philosophy) |
Other notions of agency have arisen in the field of economics/management, psychology and social cybernetics: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_(philosophy) |
Economic agency is an internal instrumentality through which external influences operate mechanistically on action. Internal agency events are a reflection of the impact of external environments from which causal attributes are ignored, and the self-system is simply a repository and conduit for environmental forces. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_(philosophy) |
The term of agency used in different fields of psychology with different meaning. It can refer to the ability of recognizing agents or attributing agency to objects based on simple perceptual cues or principles, for instance the principle of rationality, which holds that context-sensitive, goal-directed efficient actio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_(philosophy) |
Emergent interactive agency defines Bandura's view of agencies, where human agency can be exercised through direct personal agency. Bandura formulates his view of agency as a socio-cognitive one, where people are self-organizing, proactive, self-regulating, and engage in self-reflection, and are not just reactive organ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_(philosophy) |
Autonomous agency is able to embrace the concepts of both the economic agency and the emergent interactive agency. An autonomous system is self-directed, operating in, and being influenced by, interactive environments. It usually has its own immanent dynamics that impact on the way it interacts. It is also adaptable an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_(philosophy) |
Human agency refers to the ability to shape one’s life and a few dimensions can be differentiated. Individual agency is reflected in individual choices and the ability to influence one’s life conditions and chances. The individual agency differs strongly within the society across age, gender, income, education, persona... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_(philosophy) |
Collective agency refers to situations in which individuals pool their knowledge, skills, and resources, and act in concert to shape their future. Everyday agency refers to consumer and daily choices, and finally strategic agency refers to the capacity to affect the wider system change. Political economy approaches can... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_(philosophy) |
Kahoot! is a Norwegian online game-based learning platform. It has learning games, also known as "kahoots", which are user-generated multiple-choice quizzes that can be accessed via a web browser or the Kahoot! app.In July 2023, Kahoot agreed to be acquired by Goldman Sachs Asset Management alongside General Atlantic, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahoot! |
Kahoot! was founded in 2012 by Morten Versvik, as well as a team of co-founders such as Johan Brand, Jamie Brooker and Asmund Furuseth in a joint project with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, collaborating with professor Alfe Inge Wang to develop the website. Kahoot! was launched in a private beta at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahoot! |
had raised $26.5 million in funding from Northzone, Creandum and Microsoft Ventures. In October 11, 2018, Kahoot! was valued at $300 million. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahoot! |
As of 11 June 2020, Kahoot! was valued at $1.5 billion and raised further capital from Northzone. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahoot! |
In 2019, Kahoot! acquired the Scandinavian education company Poio. It also acquired DragonBox, an educational games developer, for $18 million. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahoot! |
Kahoot! raised $28 million in venture capital investments the following June. Kahoot! | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahoot! |
raised an additional $215 million in venture capital funding from SoftBank in October 2020.Afterwards, Kahoot! made a series of acquisitions. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahoot! |
It acquired Drops, which was focused on teaching languages, for about $50 million. This was followed by Whiteboard.fi, which develops software for digital, online whiteboards. Kahoot! | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahoot! |
also acquired the Danish startup Actimo for approximately $33 million. Actimo developed software for training and engaging with employees. It was acquired to expand Kahoot's features for business users. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahoot! |
In March 2021, the company went public on the Oslo stock exchange. In April 2021, Kahoot! acquired Motimate, a corporate learning company based in Norway, for about $25 million. In 2021, Kahoot! announced that it would acquire SSO digital learning platform Clever, Inc. for $500 million to expand Clever Inc.'s reach glo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahoot! |
Kahoot! users gather around a common screen such as an interactive whiteboard, projector, or a computer monitor. The site can also be used through screen-sharing tools, like Zoom or Google Hangouts. The game design is such that the players are required to frequently look up from their devices. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahoot! |
All players connect using a generated game PIN shown on the common screen, and use a device to answer questions.In March 2017, Kahoot! reached one billion cumulative participating players. In September 2017, Kahoot! launched a mobile application for homework. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahoot! |
The game concept used in Kahoot! started out as an idea of Professor Alf Inge Wang, at the Department for Computer Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 2006. He developed multiple prototypes that were developed and tested in experiments conducted in collaboration with master students. The id... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahoot! |
The initial prototype was named Lecture Quiz.Lecture Quiz 1.0 was developed in 2006, before modern smartphones were available (the first generation iPhone was released June 29, 2007). The server was implemented in Java and MySQL, integrated with an Apache Web server. The teacher client was implemented as a Java applica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahoot! |
This made it possible to run the client on both mobile phones and laptops. The students who played the game using their own laptops could use the Wi-Fi available at the university, while those playing using mobile phones had to use 3G over the cellular network. The latter was a disadvantage, as the students had to pay ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahoot! |
The first experiment with Lecture Quiz was carried out in a classroom with twenty students at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, where the focus was on efficiency and usefulness. The results from the experiment showed that Lecture Quiz was relatively easy to use, and contributed to increased learning. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahoot! |
From 2006 to 2011, four versions of Lecture Quiz were developed, where the main changes were related to improved usability, thus making it easier to create quizzes, and using newer technology for implementation. Lecture Quiz 2.0 was the first prototype where both teacher and student clients had web-interfaces. An exper... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahoot! |
The last version of Lecture Quiz was version 3.0, with significantly improved user-interface implemented using HTML 5 and CSS3, avatars, and multiple game/team modes. Lecture Quiz 3.0 was tested internally at the NTNU, as well as externally at various schools such as at Skaun Ungdomsskole, where the students rejoiced o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahoot! |
A quasi-experiment conducted at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology with 252 students participating investigated the wear-out effect of Kahoot!, by comparing students' perception of the system after playing once, vs. playing frequently over five months. The results did not show any statistically signific... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahoot! |
managed to boost students' engagement, motivation, concentration, and learning after using it repeatedly for five months. The core factor to keep students' attention after heavy repeated usage was found to be the competitive nature of Kahoot!. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahoot! |
There is also research that investigates how Kahoot! performs compared to other tools and platforms. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahoot! |
In a quasi-experiment with 384 students at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Kahoot! was compared to using a paper quiz and a simple polling system called Clicker. The results show statistically significant improvement in motivation, engagement, enjoyment, and concentration for the gamified approach (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahoot! |
compared to the two others. However, the results did not show any significant differences in learning outcomes. Another quasi-experiment at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, in which 593 students participated, investigated how the use of points and audio in Kahoot! | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahoot! |
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