Collaborative Construction Research Articles

Practical Exploration of Collaborative Construction of “Ke-cheng Sizheng” and “Si-zheng Ke-cheng” under the Background of Big Ideological and Political Education: Taking the Teaching of “Situation and Policy” Course as an Example

我国高等教育的核心任务是立德树人，要把思想政治教育贯穿人才培养体系。一方面要推动思想政治理论课在改进中加强，另一方面要加强推进高校课程思政建设工作。如何处理这两方面的关系是当前高等学校思想政治建设的重要问题。加强各类课程与思政课程同向同行，形成协同效应，亟需加强各类课程与思政课程交流融通，相互借鉴，搭建思政课程改革与课程思政建设双向联动的平台。在当前“大思政”课建设背景下，切实做到开门办思政课，创新思政课的主渠道作用，显得尤为重要。作为思政课主要课程之一的形势与政策课，应积极深化教学改革，挖掘自身特点和优势，加强与课程思政联动建设实践的探索，以促进思政课程与其他课程的融通交流，不断提高育人成效。

Collaborative Construction Method of Biomedical Knowledge Graph Based on Multi-Blockchain

Collaborative Construction Method of Biomedical Knowledge Graph Based on Multi-Blockchain

Income Distribution Effects of the Belt and Road Initiative

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) adheres to the principles of inclusive development, shared business interests, and collaborative construction. This paper empirically investigates the impact of the BRI on domestic income inequality in participating countries using national panel data from 2008 to 2023 and employing a difference-in-differences methodology. The findings indicate that the BRI significantly reduces domestic income inequality in participating countries. This effect is consistent across different geographic locations but is more pronounced in countries with lower levels of economic development. The economic channel analysis reveals that the BRI facilitates trade, which, in turn, reduces income inequality by promoting the industrial upgrading and optimizing the comparative advantages of the host countries. The political channel analysis shows that the BRI enhances governance capacities in participating countries, further contributing to the reduction in income disparity. Extended analyses suggest that the BRI significantly boosts the economic development levels of participating countries, and this positive effect is uniformly distributed across various economies. These findings provide empirical support for the mutually beneficial industrial relationships and inclusive development fostered by the BRI between China and its participating countries.

Research on the Path of Collaborative Construction of School-enterprise Cooperation for Applied Translation Talent Practice Base Based on Industry-Academia-Research

Research on the Path of Collaborative Construction of School-enterprise Cooperation for Applied Translation Talent Practice Base Based on Industry-Academia-Research

‘Help!? My students created an evil AI’: on the irony of speculative methods and design fiction

ABSTRACT This article contributes to moving forward current discourses about speculative methods by explaining how they can become critical in practice. It explores how the collaborative construction of speculative technological solutions (in this case relating to AI in education) can reveal an implicit acceptance of restricting imaginaries. In three design fiction workshops, a total of 36 teacher students were given the task to create an AI-powered technical solution to a self-identified and urgent problem in education. These design workshops revealed several interesting ‘ironies’ relevant to both actual technical development as well as speculative methods about technological futures. The ironies include an ‘ironic imitation’ of the discourses and norms that are perceived as surrounding contemporary technology. These workshops further reveal and question discourses about desirable learning, and as such these ironies are productive in illuminating power asymmetries, thereby creating space for important failures, resistances, and disruptions.

Immersive Technology and Building Information Modeling (BIM) for Sustainable Smart Cities

Research currently focuses on immersive technologies like virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR). However, there is limited exploration of their application in sustainable smart cities with Building Information Modeling (BIM), and there remains a lack of interdisciplinary integration within this domain aimed at fostering sustainable smart city development. Therefore, this paper aims to explore the development status of immersive technology and BIM in sustainable smart cities, identifying trends and research hotspots by employing a triangulation research method mixed with a quantitative method via bibliometric analysis and a qualitative method via content analysis to investigate the relationship between immersive technologies and BIM in sustainable smart cities. The results reveal a fragmented nature in the research on immersive technology and BIM in sustainable smart cities, with rapidly changing hotspots and new technologies following a cyclical pattern every 3 to 5 years. Two distinct cycles of growth were observed in the field over the last 10 years (2014–2023). The first cycle, from 2014 to 2017, represented modest growth, while the second cycle, from 2018 to 2022, showed rapid expansion, with the keywords AR, VR, MR, BIM, smart city, and smart city concept indicating the research hotspots. Immersive technologies and BIM, developed since 2017, have contributed to sustainable smart city construction. The emerging keywords AR, MR, and 360-degree VR have become research hotspots since 2021, particularly in collaborative construction. Future research trends include artificial intelligence, digitalization, AR, and MR, while building sustainability and intelligent construction have emerged as real-world applications. Additionally, this paper employs software tools to generate multidimensional knowledge maps to form a knowledge universe map at a “macro-knowledge” level followed by a “micro-knowledge” level comprising a standard knowledge system, such as lifecycle analysis, enhancing the objectivity and organization of the results and providing innovative references for future research.

Enabling Building Information Model-driven human-robot collaborative construction workflows with closed-loop digital twins

The introduction of assistive construction robots can significantly alleviate physical demands on construction workers while enhancing both the productivity and safety of construction projects. Leveraging a Building Information Model (BIM) offers a natural and promising approach to driving robotic construction workflows. However, because of uncertainties inherent in construction sites, such as discrepancies between the as-designed and as-built components, robots cannot solely rely on a BIM to plan and perform field construction work. Human workers are adept at improvising alternative plans with their creativity and experience and thus can assist robots in overcoming uncertainties and performing construction work successfully. In such scenarios, it is critical to continuously update the BIM as work processes unfold so that it includes as-built information for the ensuing construction and maintenance tasks. This research introduces an interactive closed-loop digital twin framework that integrates a BIM into human-robot collaborative construction workflows. The robot’s functions are primarily driven by the BIM, but it adaptively adjusts its plans based on actual site conditions, while the human co-worker oversees and supervises the process. When necessary, the human co-worker intervenes in the robot’s plan by changing the task sequence or workspace geometry or requesting a new motion plan to help the robot overcome the encountered uncertainties. A drywall installation case study is conducted to verify the proposed workflow. In addition, experiments are carried out to evaluate the system performance using an industrial robotic arm in a research laboratory setting that mimics a construction site and in the Gazebo simulation. Integrating the flexibility of human workers and the autonomy and accuracy afforded by the BIM, the proposed framework offers significant promise of increasing the robustness of construction robots in the performance of field construction work.

L1 LESSON PLANNING: INVESTIGATING THE EXPERIENCES, PRACTICES, AND PERSPECTIVES OF GREEK TEACHERS

The aim of this research is to investigate the extent to which Greek primary school teachers plan the L1 (first language) lesson, the teaching approaches they use as well as the teachers’ opinions regarding ways to strengthen the students’ interest in the lesson. For this purpose, an individual questionnaire was created and distributed to teachers at primary schools in order to research the way in which they plan the L1 lesson and the criteria they use for the selection of the teaching objectives and teaching content. The analysis of the data obtained shows that teachers plan their lessons based on the everyday life and the needs of their students and, to a lesser extent, on the teaching objectives of the Curriculum. The inclusion of both their teaching identities and those of their students is considered an important factor in lesson planning. Digital literacy, constructive collaboration, interdisciplinarity and experiential learning emerge as crucial aspects that contribute to strengthening the students’ involvement in language learning.<p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/soc/0701/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

Blockchain-enabled platform-as-a-service for production management in off-site construction design using openBIM standards

Integrating building information modeling (BIM) with emerging blockchain technology has gained considerable attention in addressing design collaboration problems like poor data security, weak traceability, and low transparency in off-site construction. However, blockchain implementations in off-site construction design, especially with openBIM standards, currently lack standardized workflow management and methods for ensuring data completeness within the blockchain environment. To bridge these gaps, this paper presents a novel blockchain-enabled platform-as-a-service (PaaS), specifically tailored for off-site construction to enhance interoperability and collaborative design efficiency using openBIM standards. The proposed PaaS offers two significant intellectual contributions: (1) a data contract system that manages openBIM workflow standardization and (2) a data escrow system that ensures the completeness and integrity of openBIM data. The data contract system utilizes an innovative asynchronous smart contract algorithm to streamline workflow checks, while the data escrow system introduces a new blockchain-driven data-checking strategy to ensure openBIM completeness at the data level. Besides, a PaaS architecture is developed to clarify the interaction logic between these two systems. The PaaS is validated and evaluated in openBIM-based design collaborations from a real-world project, with results indicating improvements: a 38% time-saving in design issue coordination and a 32% reduction in design data delivery time. Furthermore, the platform received favorable feedback from project participants, validating the approach and confirming the PaaS as a valuable tool for enhancing design collaboration in off-site construction.

Poeticizing medical moods during pandemics: a cognitive psychoanalysis of COVID-19 metaphors in doctors’ poetry

ABSTRACT This paper is a cognitive psychoanalysis of COVID-19 metaphors in four poems composed by doctors during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. It aims to demonstrate the efficacy of Metaphor as a vehicle for expressing different medical temperaments and modeling doctors’ psychological responses to the pandemic. Using Conceptual Metaphor theory as the theoretical framework, the study investigates the metaphorical expressions doctors use by framing them in terms of concrete concepts to make the abstract moods behind them more easily comprehensible. The study finds that doctors use medical imagination to generate metaphorical devices related to Hospital, Heart, Military, and Climate to express feelings of stress depression, self-affirmation, and elation. The study attempts to respond to the enormous need of the literary-stylistic investigation of Medicinal poetry as a representation of constructive collaboration between medicine and literature and offering reflections of the accounts of human psychology in times of global health crises.

Measuring Peer Collaboration Among Secondary School Students: Instrument Development And Validation

This study aims to create and validate a scale that measures peer collaboration among secondary school students. The study had three objectives: 1) to identify the constructs of collaboration, 2) to develop a collaboration scale, and 3) to validate the collaboration scale. The study included 363 9th-grade students, and after an extensive literature review, it identified four constructs of collaboration: social interdependence, conflict resolution, cooperation, and sharing of resources. The consistency between these constructs was found to be positive. The scale reliability was established with a Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of 0.768 and a test-retest reliability coefficient of 0.71. The content validity of the scale was also established with a Cohen kappa coefficient of 0.66. The study found that differences between boys and girls can be determined by obtaining standard scores on the collaboration scale. This new collaboration scale will be a useful tool for practitioners who use constructivist pedagogy to measure collaboration.

LaserDex: Improvising Spatial Tasks Using Deictic Gestures and Laser Pointing for Human–Robot Collaboration in Construction

LaserDex: Improvising Spatial Tasks Using Deictic Gestures and Laser Pointing for Human–Robot Collaboration in Construction

Research on Talent Cultivation Mode Based on Industrial Colleges: Taking TCL Ace Industry College of Huizhou Technician Institute as an Example

Industrial colleges represent a new form of vocational colleges and are an innovative school-enterprise cooperation model. The main participants in this collaborative construction are industries, enterprises, and schools. In higher vocational education and applied undergraduate programs, the development of industrial colleges has become relatively mature. However, in vocational colleges and technical schools, the construction of industrial colleges is still in its initial stage. There are no mature experiences to refer to. Therefore, determining a talent cultivation mode that is practical and distinct from higher vocational and applied undergraduate education is of significant theoretical and practical importance for vocational colleges. This paper aims to explore the current status and existing problems of the talent cultivation mode in industrial colleges of vocational colleges. Taking the Intelligent Design and Manufacturing TCL Ace Industry College, jointly built by Huizhou Technician Institute and TCL Group, as an example, it discusses the research on talent cultivation mode in the innovative cooperation of industrial colleges, providing theoretical support and practical guidance for promoting the construction and development of industrial colleges.

Doing great by doing good: organizational Pao culture and its CSR effect

PurposeThis paper explores the mechanism of organizational Pao culture in an Oriental cultural context and its impact on CSR implementation and outcomes.Design/methodology/approachThree short cases are presented to reveal how the traditional Chinese Pao culture influences CSR implementation and outcomes in Chinese firms.FindingsThe findings suggest that the traditional Chinese Pao culture is the driver behind the value orientation of the norms of passing on favors and doing good deeds will be rewarded. Knowing this can help leaders in such organizations to incentivize member participation in building organizational Pao culture.Practical implicationsThrough the collaborative construction of the core of Pao culture and external evaluation standards of corporate social responsibility, enterprises can thus achieve the dual goals of self-development and social benefits.Social implicationsEnterprises and managers can be encouraged to draw management wisdom from the essence of cultural norms, so as to achieve the goal of realizing the interests of all CSR participants.Originality/valueThis paper emphasizes the dynamics and outcomes of CSR implementation in the context of the traditional Chinese Pao culture and expands the boundary of CSR research beyond a Western cultural setting.

Evolutionary game analysis of collaborative application of BIM platform from the perspective of value co-creation

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the support for multi-party collaboration in project construction provided by building information modeling (BIM). Based on the perspective of value co-creation, the research results can provide support for the collaborative application and contract design of BIM platform.Design/methodology/approachIn this paper, an evolutionary game model involving the owner, designer and constructor is constructed by using prospect theory and evolutionary game theory. Through simulation analysis, the evolution law of the strategy choice of each party in the collaborative application of BIM platform is discussed and the key factors affecting the strategy choice of all parties are analyzed.FindingsThe results show that there is an ideal local equilibrium point with progressive stability in the evolutionary game between the three parties: “the construction party shares information, the designer receives the information and optimizes the project and the owner does not provide incentives”; in addition, the opportunistic behaviors of the design and construction parties, as well as the probability of such behaviors being detected and the subsequent punishment have a significant impact on the evolutionary outcome.Originality/valueThis method can provide support for the collaborative application and contract design of BIM platform.

Context‐aware hand gesture interaction for human–robot collaboration in construction

AbstractConstruction robots play a pivotal role in enabling intelligent processes within the construction industry. User‐friendly interfaces that facilitate efficient human–robot collaboration are essential for promoting robot adoption. However, most of the existing interfaces do not consider contextual information in the collaborative environment. The situation where humans and robots work together in the same jobsite creates a unique environmental context. Overlooking contextual information would limit the potential to optimize interaction efficiency. This paper proposes a novel context‐aware method that utilizes a two‐stream network to enhance human–robot interaction in construction settings. In the proposed network, the first‐person view‐based stream focuses on the relevant spatiotemporal regions for context extraction, while the motion sensory data‐based stream obtains features related to hand motions. By fusing the vision context and motion data, the method achieves gesture recognition for efficient communication between construction workers and robots. Experimental evaluation on a dataset from five construction sites demonstrates an overall classification accuracy of 92.6%, underscoring the practicality and potential benefits of the proposed method.

You are not like the rest of them: disrupting meta-perceptions dilutes dehumanization

Political polarization, fueled by conflicting meta-perceptions, presents a critical obstacle to constructive discourse and collaboration. These meta-perceptions-how one group perceives another group's views of them-are often inaccurate and can lead to detrimental outcomes such as increased hostility and dehumanization. Across two studies, we introduce and experimentally test a novel approach that exposes participants to atypical, counter-stereotypical members of an opposing group who either confirm or disrupt their existing meta-perceptions. We find that disrupting meta-perceptions decreases dehumanization of the partner, increases interest in wanting to learn more about them, but fails to increase willingness to interact in the future with the partner. We conduct an exploratory text analysis to uncover differences in word choice by condition. Our research adds a new dimension to the existing body of work by examining the efficacy of alternative intervention strategies to improve intergroup relations in politically polarized settings.

The Challenges of Moving from Regular Nursing Homes toward Innovative Long-Term Care Settings: An Interpretative Description Study of Staff Experiences

This study examined how staff experiences a relocation from a regular to an innovative living arrangement and what procedures are followed. Semi-structured interviews and observations were conducted. Staff (N = 41) were included if they worked at the selected locations (N = 3). Staff reported feeling lost physically and emotionally. They stressed the importance of constructive communication and collaboration and having a say in the physical environment. Staff acknowledged the opportunities of the new environment, but also experienced several challenges when relocating and working in an innovative environment. This study showed that relocating is a stressful undertaking for staff. The help they needed in adjusting to a new environment, and to a new way of working, was underestimated.

Guidelines for the design of positioning strategies for HAVANATUR S.A.'S excursions in the domestic market

Havanatur S.A. travel agency It constitutes one of the main receptive areas in the country; that provides tourist services to and from Cuba, highlighting, among other optional excursions. However, the entity's reports state that in recent years there has been a decrease in its income. Among the elements that negatively affect the agency's activity is the incipient growth of the business portfolio, the insignificant variation in the offer and, in addition, the decrease in the share of some markets. Due to situations beyond the agency's control, such as changes in structure, changes have been perceived in its market share and in its position as a receptive market. In correspondence with the constructive collaboration between the faculty and the agency, the following research was developed, which aims to: Propose the bases for the positioning of the excursion’s product in the Havanatur S.A. travel agency. To achieve this, a series of tools were used to obtain information such as interviews with the entity's specialists, documentary review, Porter's 5 Forces, the Cross Impact Matrix, and customer surveys. The above allowed the identification of the current situation of the company, as well as the performance of the attributes present in the excursions of both the entity and the competition. Finally, the triangulation of information made it possible to prove action guidelines for the agency, to improve its results.

Exploration and practice of multi-school co-construction of regional virtual teaching and research room for building electrical and intelligent specialty

To meet the needs of professional development promotion through cross-university collaborative construction in the era of Internet+, a new model of cross-university teaching and research organization is proposed by constructing a regional virtual teaching and research room for remote teaching and research activities among grassroots teaching organizations of different universities, utilizing modern information technology. Led by the national first-class specialty construction site of Building Electrical and Intelligent Specialty at Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, a cross-university regional virtual teaching and research room for this specialty is established in collaboration with other universities offering the same specialty in Henan province. This paper outlines the efficient and stable operation mechanism for the regional virtual teaching and research room’s multi-university collaborative construction and explores the co-construction path for cross-university regional virtual teaching and research rooms. A high-quality resource sharing platform for multi-university collaborative construction is built within the regional virtual teaching and research room, enabling intercollegiate high-quality resource and outstanding teaching team interconnection, co-construction, and sharing. This approach aims to fully leverage the distinctive features and advantages of the Building Electrical and Intelligent Specialty in each university in the region, promote cooperative development and interdisciplinary integration among partnering universities, and improve the quality of talent cultivation. It may also provide valuable reference and guidance for the collaborative construction of virtual teaching and research rooms across a broader range of universities.