Joyful Encounters: Learning to Play Well with Machines by Sandry Eleanor, Peaty Gwyneth

“…Human interactions with machines, including computers, consoles, smart devices and robots, are becoming more and more a part of everyday life. However, human–machine relations are often regarded as problematic for people, their interpersonal communication and human society more broadly. …”
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Le paysage à l’épreuve des « nouveaux » défis de l’aménagement du territoire au Maroc : contraintes et perspectives by Mustapha El Hannani, Aude Nuscia Taïbi, Yahia El Khalki, Abdelhalim Benyoucef

“…In this context, the development of an atlas of landscapes may constitute an opportunity, the landscape becoming a way to think, in a different way, the everyday life territory. It also may constitute a new tool to assist in the decision-making and the promotion of local potentialities for local and public actors, decision-makers, and to encourage the emergence of a territorial perception and consciousness. …”
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As múltiplas faces da comodificação e a constituição da crítica acerca das práticas de consumo contemporâneas by Ceres Grehs Beck, Luis Henrique Hermínio Cunha

“…After the analysis of the cases, it is argued that commodifying processes change the ways of everyday life and affect the social relations, leading, ultimately, to reframe the “human qualities” and to the depoliticization of the individuals to the dynamics of social change.…”
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More than a binder... Disappeared persons’ mothers and their case files in Mexico by Isaac Vargas

“…Thus, one of the conclusions shows how through objects the disappeared persons continue to participate in the everyday life of their loved ones, as well as in the claims for justice. …”
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Informal networks of corruption in contemporary Lithuania: Between practice and interpretation (an attempt to study evolution of blat) by Donatas Brandišauskas

“…My focus in this paper was if and how Lithuanians of today use their informal networks (blat) and personal relations to obtain goods or values from people in formal positions in everyday life. I argue that despite some changes, informal relations play a crucial role in many contemporary social transactions in Lithuania and create the environment where corruption can successfully flourish. …”
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O cotidiano como utopia: novas relações de espaço e tempo no mundo da arte contemporânea by Ana Carolina Freire Accorsi Miranda

“…This type of art places itself as the utopia of the everyday life, constructed for the present time in the urban space. …”
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: An IoT Driver Framework for Supporting Sensor Networks and Data Analysis by László Lengyel, Péter Ekler, Tamás Ujj, Tamás Balogh, Hassan Charaf

“…The Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming the surrounding everyday physical objects into an ecosystem of information that enriches our everyday life. The IoT represents the convergence of advances in miniaturization, wireless connectivity, and increased data storage and is driven by various sensors. …”
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Les trames vertes et bleues habitantes : un cheminement entre pratiques et représentations. L’exemple de la ville de Paris (France) by Étienne Grésillon, Marianne Cohen, Julien Lefour, Lydie Goeldner, Laurent Simon

“…In the first one, the TVB must be defended in the city because it is part of the everyday life of the people and in the other one they do not have their place in a metropolis like Paris. …”
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Information activities and resources in an episode of gourmet cooking by J. Hartel

“…</b> This paper contributes to what is known about everyday life information seeking within serious leisure. …”
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Case studies of communications systems during harsh environments: A review of approaches, weaknesses, and limitations to improve quality of service by Zayan EL Khaled, Hamid Mcheick

“…Therefore, the exchange of information is more than necessary for people in their everyday life or during harsh environments to prevent the death and injury of thousands of individuals. …”
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The “Daily Digital”: (Re)imagining Technology in Home-Based Women’s Gig Work in Egypt. by Laila Mourad

“…The gig economy is (re)shaping work and revolutionising the use of technology in everyday life. In Egypt, where more than 50 per cent of women’s enterprises are home-based, digital tools such as smartphones and social media are integral to managing informal labour practices. …”
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Environment as a cultural and economic “barrier” of Canada by Ivanović Mirko

“…This paper is significant for two reasons, the first is to explain the historical division of the country through natural conditions as the main factors of division (into the southern more populated part and the northern sparsely populated part of Canada) and second to show how climate change really changes the everyday life of the local population in a positive (economic growth and employment) and negative (environmental change due to climate change and environmental pollution due to the arrival of industry in those "remote" areas) aspect.…”
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Performing Not-Not-Me in SoMe: A New Theatrical Typology of Self-Presentation Online by Anne-Britt Gran

“…Erving Goffman’s dramaturgical model in The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959) is frequently used to analyze online self-presentations in social media (SoMe) and other social network sites (SNS). …”
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Seeking information, seeking connections, seeking meaning: genealogists and family historians. Genealogy, Family history, Information seeking, Archives, Personal information manage... by Elizabeth Yakel

“…Genealogy and family history are examples of everyday life information seeking and provide a unique example of intensive and extensive use of libraries and archives over time. …”
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‘Soltanto le montagne non si incontrano’. Buone pratiche per il recupero di colture/culture locali fra tradizione e innovazione by Laura Bonato

“…For some years now, however, there have been a number of projects throughout the Alps that are attempting to reintroduce different types of historically documented crops: for example, rye, a mountain cereal par excellence which, although not native to the Alps, was essential for food and everyday life until the 1950s. Its recovery, which is at once economic, cultural and touristic, plays a significant – and, in my opinion, fortifying – role in interaction, cooperation and exchanges between local communities and acts as a link between tradition and the present day. …”
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Ethnomathematics-based traditional games as a pedagogical approach to enhance logical-mathematical intelligence by Moh Zayyadi, Ema Surahmi, Septi Dariyatul Aini, Dayat Hidayat

“…From the questionnaire given, 10 traditional games that were often played in everyday life were obtained. Data collection techniques were in the form of interviews, observation, documentation, and literature studies as a form of triangulation to obtain data and determine the validity of the data. …”
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Ekologiczne aspekty katolickiej teologii moralnej by Mariusz Ciszek

“…At the end of this paragraph, I put Ecological Decalogue, whose rules Christians should obey in everyday life.…”
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Brain Aging: Key Theories and Neurophysiological Insights by V.D. Tretyakova, K.I. Pultsina

“…One of the key issues in this area is the study of the effect of aging on cognitive functions and brain activity, since these functions play an important role in everyday life and determine a person&rsquo;s ability to lead a full, independent life and adapt to a changing environment. …”
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Reliability and validity of the Lithuanian version of headache-attributed lost time (HALT) index by I. Zagorskienė, E. Abelkis, R. Mameniškienė

“…Headache-Attributed Lost Time (HALT) index is a tool recommended by WHO to determine the burden of headache to the patient and his everyday life. This instrument has not been validated in Lithuanian so far. …”
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‘An unbidden guest at your table’: Purity, danger and the house-fly in the middle-class home, c. 1870-1910 by Neil Davie

“…The house-fly was an inescapable part of everyday life in Victorian England, and its presence in the home was an unwelcome reminder to middle-class Victorians that for all their efforts to construct the domestic space as a pristine refuge from the external forces of disorder, pollution and dirt, there was no escaping this atavistic symbol of filth and disease. …”
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