Participation In Creation Research Articles

Artificial Intelligence Comic Strip (AICS) Generators: A Review of Subscription Models, Pricing, and User Satisfaction

This study investigates the evolution of Artificial Intelligence Comic Strip (AICS) platforms by analyzing their pricing strategies, subscription models, and user satisfaction. Fifteen leading platforms were systematically selected based on popularity, unique features, and diverse user groups, including beginners, educators, and professionals. They employed user feedback and platform analysis to evaluate pricing models and their impact on accessibility and retention. Key findings revealed five dominant pricing strategies: freemium models, tiered subscriptions, credit-based systems, pay-per-use options, and customizable services. While freemium models effectively introduce users to the platforms, high subscription fees and complicated credit systems often hinder user retention. User feedback indicated dissatisfaction with unclear pricing structures and limited affordability, particularly in regions with financial constraints. Adaptive pricing models incorporating user engagement metrics and regional economic factors were identified as potential solutions to enhance accessibility. Platforms combining affordability with robust features achieved better satisfaction rates and broader user adoption. Additionally, the study highlighted the importance of transparent communication and simplified interfaces to address barriers for non-expert users. This study underscores the need for AICS platforms to adopt inclusive pricing and user-centric designs. By doing so, they can attract a diverse audience, encourage creative participation, and strengthen their market position. These findings contribute to understanding how AICS platforms can balance user satisfaction and revenue generation while fostering creative expression and democratizing storytelling tools.

About the regional stage in the biography of the first deputy minister of railways of the USSR N.A. Gundobin

Relevance. The role of railway transport in modern conditions is increasing due to the intensification of economic and geopolitical processes that require constant mobility of human and material resources. In this regard, the experience of the functioning of Soviet railways is becoming in demand not only by production workers, but also by representatives of humanitarian knowledge. Any modernization of production technologies is impossible without the active and creative participation of a labor person in it. Therefore, the study of the human factor in Russian history continues to be updated. The use of newly identified sources of personal origin in the study allows us to reveal previously unknown aspects of the life of historical personalities, which is especially important in creating full-fledged portraits of statesmen who made a significant contribution to the development of the country, among which N.A. Gundobin should be included.The purpose of the study is to comprehensively examine, on the basis of newly identified historical sources, the initial stage of the biography of the former First Deputy Minister of Railways of the USSR N.A. Gundobin.Objectives: to reveal the specifics of the functioning of railway transport in the period under review; to characterize the main factors of N.A. Gundobin's personal and professional development.Methodology. The principles of objectivity and historicism were used as the methodological basis of the work. To solve the tasks set, the authors used historical-genetic, historical-systemic, biographical, and retrospective methods.Results. The study and generalization of archival and memoir sources allowed us to reconstruct the events of the initial stage of personal formation and professional activity of one of the outstanding organizers of railway transport in the USSR, N.A. Gundobin.Conclusions. Family traditions and the passage of all stages of career growth from ordinary transport professions with a responsible attitude to the assigned task allowed N.A. Gundobin to hold a high leadership position in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR for almost 30 years, which testifies to the exceptional organizational abilities and hard work of a person who for so long ensured the functioning of an industry strategically important for the country.

Predicting Engagement of Older People’s Virtual Teams from Video Call Analysis

This study examines seniors’ creative engagement in group activities using synchronous communication tools and explores automatic assessment methods through behavioral and psychophysiological measurements. Working with a small senior group on collaborative creative tasks, we implemented a comprehensive data collection approach using audio-visual and physiological measurements. Machine learning models were used to evaluate group creative engagement levels using various data subsets. Results show that engagement assessment can be effective with different feature combinations, allowing flexibility across contexts and constraints. The multimodal approach, combining facial, audio, and body analysis, achieved optimal performance and is recommended when conditions permit. Our research provides insights into seniors’ online creative participation and presents an automated system for detecting creative engagement in virtual teams, supporting active participation strategies.

The Ethics of Local Belonging: A Theology of Naming Place

This article offers a theological description of one practice necessary for good local belonging: the creative practice of naming local creatures, both human and non-human. I explore the practice of naming as forming local belonging in dialogue with new nature writers in the British Isles and Jean-Louis Chrétien. I offer a brief review of the scope of theologies of place in the United Kingdom before turning to the themes of displacement and naming in new British nature writing. Finally, I use Jean-Louis Chrétien's theological accounts of naming and corporate prayer, to examine the effect of naming in transforming one's relation to one's locality, and propose that the Church's creative participation in local naming—especially in prayer—offers a transforming narrative as to the kinds of local belonging which ought to be pursued.

How Do Location-Based AR Games Enhance Value Co-Creation Experiences at Cultural Heritage Sites? A Process Perspective Analysis

The sustainable development of tourism in cultural heritage sites benefits from the active participation of tourists in the co-creation process. Location-based AR games show great potential in tourists’ participation in creation and positive experiences. This study explores the relationship between the stage factors of the co-creation experience and the overall co-creation. Combining the service-dominant logic and process perspective of value co-creation theory, this research proposes a conceptual framework for co-creating experiences in cultural heritage tourism using augmented reality technology through two studies. In the first phase of the study, quantitative research was conducted on 256 visitors to measure the impact of factors in the three processes of pre-co-creation experience, on-site experience, and post-co-creation experience on the overall co-creation experience. In the study’s second phase, follow-up qualitative interviews were conducted based on multiple linear regression analysis results to expand the interpretation of the relationship and importance of factors affecting the co-creation experience process. The results show that psychological engagement, awareness, knowledge, and social relations during pre-visitation help enhance the overall co-creation experience. In contrast, the overall co-creation experience is enriched by real-time storytelling, interaction, and emotional resonance in both on-site and post-experience processes. The proposal of this framework model advances the discussion of augmented reality technology and co-creation experience to the empirical level. It provides a basis for further tourism co-creation experience design practice.

Extended reality for citizen participation: A conceptual framework, systematic review and research agenda

This paper explores the integration of Extended Reality (XR) technologies, including Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR), into citizen participation processes, a crucial yet challenging area in urban planning and smart city management. Despite the potential of XR, the existing literature remains scattered and often lacks practical application guidelines, hindering a full understanding of XR's potential to enhance democratic engagement. Through a systematic literature review, this study consolidates existing knowledge with an e-participation theoretical lens, spanning various disciplines, to provide a cohesive analysis of XR's role and potential. The study critically examines the empirical literature and suggests a conceptual framework consisting of several analysis themes: the contextual elements driving the use of XR by stakeholders, the characteristics of the technologies used, and outcomes of the use of XR. Leveraging this framework, we outline six future research directions, emphasizing the need to longitudinally study organizational implications of XR use beyond punctual user studies, extending the use cases to other political areas beyond urban planning, and investigating the creation of new realities as channels for effective and creative participation. The conceptual framework is also translated to a canvas for practitioners for the design of future XR-enabled participation initiatives.

On the Concept of Artificial Intelligence and the Legal Regime of AI-Generated Results without the Creative Participation of an Individual

The paper examines the concept of “artificial intelligence”. It is proposed that when building a definition of this concept we proceed from the “black box” principle, which, according to the author, will make such definition universal and independent of the level of current technological development.The author investigates the question of whether a work generated by artificial intelligence without the creative participation of an individual can be equated with works protected by copyright. Based on the concept of recognition of copyright on works of science, literature or art based on the creative result proposed in the legal doctrine, the author concluded that AI-generated works are comparable to the results of human intellectual activity.The main approaches to determining the legal regime of AI-generated works in domestic legal doctrine and foreign legislation are considered. The author proposes an approach to regulating copyright on the works in question, similar to the legal regime for the protection of works of science, literature or art after the death of the author.

Psychological Benefits of Arts Participation for Emerging Adulthood: A Pathway to Flourishing.

This study examined 430 Chinese college students' engagement in arts activities and the psychological benefits derived from such activities. The research differentiated between various types of arts participation and ways of involvement and examined four potential positive psychological outcomes. The findings revealed correlations between (1) creative participation in the performing arts, 'flow', and aesthetic emotions; (2) consumptive participation in the visual arts and aesthetic emotions; and (3) creative participation in the literary arts and ego identity. Holistic arts participation demonstrated a significantly positive relationship with flourishing. A path analysis showed that flow experience and aesthetic emotions served as mediators in the mechanism through which holistic arts participation affected flourishing, with a chained mediation effect from flow experience to ego identity. This study confirms that arts participation is an effective pathway for individual flourishing and that more diverse and profound engagement in the arts can lead to sustained and widespread happiness.

RELEVANSI DAN PERAN KURIKULUM MERDEKA DALAM MENINGKATKAN PEMAHAMAN SISWA TENTANG KRISIS GLOBAL WARMING

This research aims to examine the relevance and role of the Merdeka Curriculum, an educational initiative that provides freedom and flexibility in curriculum development, in addressing the global warming crisis. This study utilises a qualitative method with a case study conducted in three schools implementing the Merdeka Curriculum in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Data were collected through interviews with teachers and school principals, direct observations in the schools, and document analysis of textbooks containing materials related to global warming. The data were then analysed using thematic analysis techniques. The findings reveal that the Merdeka Curriculum possesses several characteristics that support students in understanding and addressing the global warming crisis, namely: (1) a focus on essential and relevant environmental issues, (2) the development of students' character and problem-solving competencies, and (3) student engagement in active and participatory learning. The results of the research explain that the Merdeka Curriculum plays a role in providing knowledge, but also skills, attitudes and values needed to become environmentally responsible citizens. The independent curriculum also encourages active and creative participation from students and educators in finding and providing solutions to reduce the negative impacts of the global warming crisis.

Children's creative participation as a precursor of 21st century skills in Finnish early childhood education and care context

The purpose of this article is to study how children's creative participation as a precursor of 21st century skills is related to their skills and competencies, involvement, and class activities in the Finnish early childhood education and care (ECEC) context. The study is part of the Finnish ECEC Progressive Feedback research and development project, which was conducted in 21 Finnish cities and companies providing ECEC services between 2017 and 2022. In this study, 5047 children aged between 1 and 7 years participated, using data which included both observation and child evaluations. Children's creative participation was examined using the social orientation theory together with the LI-SYC to focus on their involvement in class activities. The results showed that children's creative participation was related to their skills and competencies, involvement, and play as a class activity. The results emphasize the significance of creative participation as an indicator of quality and learning in ECEC. Educational relevance and implications statementThe results of this study show that creative participation as a precursor of 21st century skills (especially creativity and collaboration) is also an indicator of quality and learning today. Creative participation occurred in play as a class activity, and it was also connected with children evaluated individual skills and skills and competencies, especially creativity in pretend play and less support needs in language development. This is significant because with scaffolding and being conscious of the opportunities for creative participation in the pedagogy of early childhood education and care, it is possible to scaffold children's learning and well-being today and the skills and competencies they will need in the future.

Creativity, aging, context and culture: Reimagining creativity in everyday life in older adults

Despite increasing interest in creative aging, little connection has been made between creative aging research and research and theory on creativity. In part 1 of this paper, we will explain why 20th century psychological concepts of creativity were inadequate to describe the impact of creative participation for older adults, and how those theories promoted stereotypes of aging. In part 2, we discuss theory and research from gerontologists on why creative activities are important, and how more inclusive theories of creativity can guide researchers in their quest to determine how creative participation can benefit older adults, and the culture at large. Sociocultural theories of creativity highlight the importance of culture and context as essential components of creativity. For example, sociocultural creativity theory argues that the cultural artifacts called crafts deserve to be considered “creative” even if they do not seem particularly novel. Crafts, which are frequently created by older people, especially women, are cultural artifacts or heirlooms that can hold meaning for generations. Sociocultural theory can guide the study of late life creativity to expand the possibilities for meaningful engagement in creativity across the lifespan.

The use of scientific ranking in the Academic career. An exemplificative survey in an Italian relatively young University

Scientific ranking, usually involved in a metric evaluation of one’s own academic reputation, does not seem to even match with the career advancement in the University context. Paradoxically, members with a low ranking in bibliometric evaluation, usually expressed as number of publications (now known as “research products”), Hirsch’s index (Hind) and citations, cover responsibilities decisively higher than other members with a better ranking position. Although this research has been performed in a single exemplificative Italian Academy, this issue may be expanded to many further Italian Universities, representing a great concern for the advancement of science. Ideally, researchers in the field support the thesis that academic career and scientific rankings walk alongside following meritocratic rules [1], yet, sound analyses in the real world make this enthusiastic consideration somehow controversial [2-7]. Following Gelmini’s law, in 2010, a significant burden of “subjectivity” on the Expert Committee’s evaluation of academic careers, occurring once a candidate participated in earning the National Scientific Qualification for teaching in an Academy, led meritocracy to fail [7]. The apparently shareable consideration that a scientific crew should be empowered in selecting the best candidate suited for the defined project, often points at human and character features, empathy, promptness to obey without discussing head’s ideas, self-denial and a poor creative participation, in order to prevent any conflictual proposal, idea or debate. In this arrangement of skills, scientific rankings cannot bear any real support. Yet, Gelmini’s law introduced important novelties to the complete anarchy in selecting candidates for the Academic career, such as the so-called “medians”, in order to properly link the expertise of the candidate with his/her own scientific reputation, i.e., its scientific ranking compared to at least the half of current Academic experts in the same professional branch. Medians would be a paramount method to evaluate one’s own reputation on the basis that the candidate has exceeded the 50% of the confirmed experts in a nationwide assessment. Notwithstanding, other “personalized” items were involved in the selection route, just causing real perturbating bias in the correctness of the same selection. What have we lost in this dramatic drift far from a true, honest meritocracy? A first, maybe trivial, consideration would be to arrange a cut off of rankings to possibly select a candidate as worth of teaching in an Academy, either as Associate Professor or Full Professor. If rankings are recognized as the only reliable metric to categorize the expertise level of a researcher or a scholar, then primarily an Institution should consider rankings as the leading source of professionality for a defined field of research. In this Editorial, I will address this point.

The Influence of The Power of Two Method in Mathematics Learning on Increasing Student Activity

Mathematics learning aims to enhance problem-solving skills encompassing problem comprehension, method creation, execution, and result analysis. It covers numbers, geometry, calculations, and data processing. Low achievement in mathematics stems from inadequate understanding and reliance on arithmetic as a tool. Student disinterest further hampers learning. Although students may solve problems correctly, they often struggle to explain their reasoning, as observed in a class III student at SD Negeri 1 Pucangan. Student engagement is crucial in gauging learning motivation. Cooperative learning, particularly the power of two methods, fosters student collaboration, facilitating better comprehension. This approach enhances learning quality, promoting active and creative participation. Implementing the power of two cooperative learning models in class III at SD N 1 Pucangan improved student activity, shifting from adequate to good. The method's effectiveness in enhancing mathematics learning quality is evident through increased student engagement and activity levels

The Impact of Artificial Technology on Authors of a Cinematographic Creation

Algorithmic systems are used almost everywhere in our everyday lives and have strongly made their indispensable way into the film industry. This new reality has changed the rigid entertainment business models and has significantly impacted copyright law. The critical question that arises is how cinematographic authorship rights are affected by artificial contributions. Consequently, the main issue at hand is determining the legal status of the film author when it comes to using artificially created works. Since the film is a collectively created work of art, the possible authors were first determined by reviewing the relevant regulations. During this analysis, it has been revealed that an artificially created effort that lacks human creative participation is not considered a contribution and, consequently, not an author in the dogmatic copyright systems. This opens Pandora's box about the philosophical question of whether an artificial intelligence can or must be equated with a natural person if the creative cognitive processes are like those of a human being. Despite correct approaches, the well-intentioned proposals of the legal systems examined need to be revised. Solutions such as the e-person, the factually attributable natural person and a particular form of fair use will be experimented with in the future. A final national and international copyright solution for filmmakers has yet to be seen on the horizon.

Jamming to map creative scenes and practices

ABSTRACT In this paper I detail my experiences undertaking an ICT4D project that aimed to better understand how under-resourced visual creatives used mobile technologies to participate in creative ‘scenes’ in Cape Town, South Africa. The project was focused on developing novel digital applications to better support localized practices. From a post-qualitative perspective, I could map the scenes of ‘jamming’ together with participants. In describing these scenes, a better understanding is formed of how technologies could be re-designed to support situated creative activities as constellations of creative practices, social imaginaries and materialities. I offer provocations for the future of Digital Development within the creative and cultural industries, namely that creative scenes are about social imaginary and the imminent participations of people; That creative participation is about more than just economic participation; That doing inquiry is about imagining different material realities together with participants; And that ‘development’ implies dynamic change.

Sowing the Seeds of Commons in Education: Three Case Studies from the Horizon Project 2020 SMOOTH

This paper explores how educational commons, in which education and learning are shaped by the members of the educational community in terms of equality, freedom, and creative participation, contribute to addressing inequalities, empowering democracy, and enhancing inclusion. The discussion focuses on the crucial debate around public formal education and the potential for radical democratisation it offers through three case studies carried out in formal and non-formal educational settings in Thessaloniki, Greece. The research was conducted in three different types of education centres: a public kindergarten, a self-organised autonomous libertarian educational community, and an after-school programme of a primary school where Workshops for Nurturing and Developing Environmental Resilience (WONDER) were implemented by the environmental organisation Mamagea. Through patterns of commoning practices, like peer governance, co-creation of knowledge, and peer learning, the case studies aimed to establish the prerequisites for the co-creation of a community that offers pupils and students, teachers, and educators the chance for self-formation and equal participation. The article makes the case that educational hierarchies and governance models can be reconfigured in order to incorporate the democratic values of solidarity, equality, self-organisation, and self-formation even in structures that are still tailored to formal schooling. The article argues that educational commons can make a decisive contribution to tackling inequalities, and the commons logic can grow effectively in school education under specific conditions. The pedagogical practice is shifted in educational commons in ways that balance out contemporary enclosures based on several inequalities.

Participation and Creative Autonomy:

In this article I analyze the implications of different forms of participation on the role of artists and their creative autonomy. Through a conceptual clarification around core ideas that are commonly associated with the pairing of participation and art, I discuss recent development in artistic practices. The concepts artistic autonomy and creativity have been central to the development of the professional role and identity that artists in the performing arts field have today. With this as a backdrop, I map out the conceptual differences between creative participation, aesthetic participation, democratic participation and civic participation, and how they impact artists. The article mainly draws on recent theory in performance studies and applied theatre, as well as sociological perspectives. Finally, I discuss how contemporary artists often combine different roles, even within a single work.

Metaphysics of Epoch Synchronisations and Music

The purpose of this work is to trace the natural character of those historical metaphysical similarities that are laid down by the repetition of social changes from century to century and evoke the corresponding artistic and stylistic analogies based on the religious and cultural tendencies of nations. The methodological basis is the intonation approach of B. Asafiev’s school in Ukraine, comparative and hermeneutic prolongations of intonation in the works of D. Androsova, T. Verkina, O. Kozarenko, I. Kotliarevskyi, I. Liashenko, Liu Bintsyan, O. Markova, O. Muravska, O. Sokolova, with the use of scientific and research methods: art historical and analytical, descriptive and historical, cultural and regionalist, religious studies. The scientific novelty of the work is determined by the originality of the correlation of the layers of culture and art according to the logic of their epochal style and thought coincidence, including art historical parallels of ideological and state-building institutions, behavioural and ethical norms of the revolutionary strata of China and Italy in the 1840s and 1850s, the prevalence of stringed plucked instruments as a sign of Renaissance thinking in Europe and China, the capture of Rococo influences on the Cossack culture of Ukraine with a focus on woman’s creative participation. Conclusions. The discovery of Renaissance cultural features in the nations of the East obliges us to recognise analogies with Europe, which is recorded in the parallel of the life-behavioural and cultural-artistic actions of the Italian Risorgimento ("Renaissance of Italy" as the realisation of a romantic utopia) and the Chinese Taipingyang (the construction of the "Heavenly City" utopia as the Renaissance of the greatness of ancient China). The article also introduces the assertion of the original Renaissance "two worlds" in the biconfessional Jagiellonian Poland, in which the component of Cossack Ukraine demonstrated a tangent to the majestic achievements of prosaloon aristocratic instrumentalism in the life of kobzars-bandura players and song-madrigal female creative expression.
 Key words: metaphysics of history, renaissance, culture, musical culture, epochal style of thinking, musical style.

Human Creative Contribution to AI-Based Output – One Just Can(’t) Get Enough

Abstract The article attempts to clarify the issue of the copyrightability of AI-based output by streamlining the assessment of human creative contribution to the creation process assisted by generative AI systems. It starts with briefly outlining the state of the art of modern generative AI systems contributing to a better understanding of AI. Then the article presents a five-part test to distinguish between sufficient and insufficient human creative participation and contemplates the following authorship scenarios: sole authorship of AI designers or users; their joint authorship; and non-authorship. The article proceeds with applying the test to output produced using Midjourney, a generative AI tool. It concludes that in many cases of using AI to create output human creative participation remains sufficient for copyright protection eligibility. However, there are also developments and circumstances that drive the increase in ‘authorless’ AI-based output. Moreover, depending on the specific circumstances, using even the same AI system may lead to different test results.

The NEFFIE project: Technological innovation, artistic co-creation and social augmented experience

This article presents the NEFFIE (which stands for ‘Neuroaesthetic Photography’) project, a contemporary reinterpretation of Franco Vaccari’s iconic artwork, presented 50 years ago at the 1972 International Venice Art Biennale and entitled Exhibition in Real Time No. 4: Leave on the Walls a Photographic Trace of Your Fleeting Visit. Thanks to today’s technological innovation, NEFFIE develops Vaccari’s idea from a more contemporary perspective. Vaccari’s original photo booth becomes a technologically revisited booth that uses an algorithm and wearable sensors to reshape the subjective emotional-cognitive responses derived from viewing particular images, thus generating the ‘cognitive photograph’ or ‘COFFIE metapicture’. These metapictures are subsequently minted as NFTs (non-fungible tokens) objects and then displayed on a virtual wall, the ‘COFFIE wall’, generating what can be defined as a Virtual Exhibition in Real Time, a hypothetical contemporary re-actualization of Vaccari’s artistic proposition. The NEFFIE project could be considered a pervasive media art proposal capable of promoting social cohesion, by encouraging creative participation and co-creation. The project is being developed in Milan, thanks to a fruitful interdisciplinary collaboration between the Research Center in Advanced Technology in Health and Well-Being of San Raffaele Hospital, and ICONE, the European Research Center in History and Theory of the Image of Vita-Salute San Raffaele University. This multidisciplinary approach combines art-historical theoretical thinking with the world of technological innovation. In particular, the NEFFIE project integrates the visual and conceptual tools of photography with the methodologies and knowledge of biomedical engineering and computer science.