Webster University Vienna

About: Webster University Vienna is a education organization based out in Vienna, Austria. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Monetary policy & Cognition. The organization has 60 authors who have published 168 publications receiving 3182 citations.

Internationalizing Postsecondary Education in Psychology: A Global Endeavor

Abstract: The twenty-first century has witnessed a widespread call for internationalizing postsecondary psychology education. The authors discuss the rationale for recent efforts to enrich psychological contents, methods, and practices by internationalizing the teaching of psychology. They present aims and results of an online survey on how psychology instructors, primarily in the United States, can make psychology education more international. They also discuss strategies to incorporate international psychology perspectives in such aspects of teaching as lectures, classroom activities, assignments, and the use of Internet-based technologies. They describe the aims of a second online survey that compares European and US faculty perspectives on internationalization in psychology. Future research should empirically explore the effectiveness of instructional strategies and assess specifically defined learning outcomes of an internationalized psychology education.

Elementary-level learners’ engagement with multimodal resources in two audio-visual genres

Abstract: Audio-visual texts play a vital role in FL instruction. Numerous publications point to their benefits to reach communicative and cultural learning goals. However, there is only limited empirical in...

Zombie politics: evolutionary algorithms to counteract the spread of negative opinions

Abstract: This paper is about simulating the spread of opinions in a society and about finding ways to counteract that spread. To abstract away from potentially emotionally laden opinions, we instead simulate the spread of a zombie outbreak in a society. The virus causing this outbreak is different from traditional approaches: It not only causes a binary outcome (healthy vs. infected) but rather a continuous outcome. To counteract the outbreak, a discrete number of infection-level-specific treatments are available. This corresponds to acts of mild persuasion or the threats of legal action in the opinion spreading use case. This paper offers a genetic and a cultural algorithm that find the optimal mixture of treatments during the run of the simulation. They are assessed in a number of different scenarios. It is shown that albeit far from being perfect, the cultural algorithm delivers superior performance at lower computational expense.

Artificial Intelligence in the B2C Service Sector – A Literature Review

Abstract: Artificial intelligence applications are transforming many service sectors. Research on artificial intelligence in business-to-consumer services suggests approaches for innovative kinds of customer services, enhancement of human service provision, and new customer experiences based on artificial intelligence applications. The chapter provides an overview of scholarly research on the scientific understanding of artificial intelligence in services, investigated artificial intelligence algorithms and technologies in concrete service contexts, and a summary of the study findings as well as suggestions for future research in this dynamically expanding field.