Dr Keren Mazuz, MA, PhD, is a Medical Anthropologist, Associate Professor and Head of the Master Degree Program in Management at Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem, and a researcher of Elderly Care, Aging and Technology Consultant for the Jerusalem Municipality and Tel Aviv Municipality in the design of age-friendly cities, and a member of the advisory board for healthy aging lab at the Center for Digital Innovation located next to Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Beer Sheva.
Using anthropological theory, this paper examines human–android interactions (HAI) as an emerging... more Using anthropological theory, this paper examines human–android interactions (HAI) as an emerging aspect of android science. These interactions are described in terms of adaptive learning (which is largely subconscious). This article is based on the observations reported and supplementary data from two studies that took place in Japan with a teleoperated android robot called Telenoid in the socialization of school children and older adults. We argue that interacting with androids brings about a special context, an interval, and a space/time for reflection and imagination that was not there before. During the interaction something happens. There is adaptive learning and as a result, both children and older adults accepted Telenoid, and the children and older adults accepted each other. Using frames of play and ritual, we make sense and ‘capture’ moments of adaptive learning, and the feedback that elicits a social response from all study participants that results in self-efficacy and ...
Painful Conversations is an interdisciplinary anthology about pain. Problems concerning communica... more Painful Conversations is an interdisciplinary anthology about pain. Problems concerning communicating and understanding pain are discussed with examples that stretches from literature to caretaking, from self-induced pain in religious and cultural contexts to problems of pain in theological and philosophical perspectives.
During the night, on September 2004, Jina called for an ambulance after Sima had trouble breathin... more During the night, on September 2004, Jina called for an ambulance after Sima had trouble breathing and then accompanied her to the hospital. Sima was hospitalized and I came to visit them the next morning at 11:30 am in the ward. After an hour, the nurse entered the room and declared that visiting hours were over. While I prepared to take my things I asked Jina whether she was planning to stay again that night. She answered without hesitation “Yes, of course until Ima [mother in Hebrew] will get out” The nurse immediately added, “who else will stay here, she [Jina] is the only true family she [Sima] has”.
La comparaison des deux concours de beaute « Reine de Beaute d’Israel » et « Miss Asie-Israel », ... more La comparaison des deux concours de beaute « Reine de Beaute d’Israel » et « Miss Asie-Israel », qui ont eu lieu en 2006 permet de decrire Israel dans sa quotidiennete. A travers eux, des transformations sociales et culturelles plus larges se font visibles. Chaque spectacle genere des images et des recits essentiels de ce que les femmes « israeliennes » sont et devraient etre et, partant, exprime ce que devrait etre la nation elle-meme. Cette comparaison revele que les deux concours sont inscrits dans l’ordre social de la nation et proposent differents modeles d’israelianite incarnes dans l’affichage du corps feminin.
Introduction: The standardization of global health education and assessment remains a significant... more Introduction: The standardization of global health education and assessment remains a significant issue among global health educators. This paper explores the role of multiple choice questions (MCQs) in global health education: whether MCQs are appropriate in written assessment of what may be perceived to be a broad curriculum packed with fewer facts than biomedical science curricula; what form the MCQs might take; what we want to test; how to select the most appropriate question format; the challenge of quality item-writing; and, which aspects of the curriculum MCQs may be used to assess. Materials and Methods: The Medical School for International Health (MSIH) global health curriculum was blue-printed by content experts and course teachers. A 30-question, 1-h examination was produced after exhaustive item writing and revision by teachers of the course. Reliability, difficulty index and discrimination were calculated and examination results were analyzed using SPSS software. Result...
BACKGROUND Loneliness has become a public health problem described as an epidemic and it has been... more BACKGROUND Loneliness has become a public health problem described as an epidemic and it has been argued that digital behavior such as social media postings affects loneliness. OBJECTIVE The aim of the study is to expand the knowledge on the determinants of loneliness by investigating online postings in a social media forum devoted to loneliness. METHODS We collected a total of 19,668 postings from 11,054 users on the loneliness forum on Reddit. We asked 7 crowdsourced workers to imagine themselves as writing one of 236 randomly chosen posts and administered the short-form UCLA Loneliness Scale (ULS-6) to them. After showing that these postings could provide an assessment of loneliness, we built a predictive model for loneliness scores based on posting text and applied it to all postings. We then analyzed trends in loneliness postings over time and the correlates of loneliness with other topics of interest. RESULTS We find that crowdsourced workers are able to estimate loneliness (I...
BACKGROUND Loneliness has become a public health problem described as an epidemic and it has been... more BACKGROUND Loneliness has become a public health problem described as an epidemic and it has been argued that digital behavior such as social media postings affects loneliness. OBJECTIVE The aim of the study is to expand the knowledge on the determinants of loneliness by investigating online postings in a social media forum devoted to loneliness. METHODS We collected a total of 19,668 postings from 11,054 users on the loneliness forum on Reddit. We asked 7 crowdsourced workers to imagine themselves as writing one of 236 randomly chosen posts and administered the short-form UCLA Loneliness Scale (ULS-6) to them. After showing that these postings could provide an assessment of loneliness, we built a predictive model for loneliness scores based on posting text and applied it to all postings. We then analyzed trends in loneliness postings over time and the correlates of loneliness with other topics of interest. RESULTS We find that crowdsourced workers are able to estimate loneliness (I...
The aim of this paper is to explore the concepts of personhood and compassion, as perceived by st... more The aim of this paper is to explore the concepts of personhood and compassion, as perceived by staff caring for people with dementia (PwD) in community-based dementia daycare. Autonomy in the Western culture is closely related to concepts of personhood and form the cornerstone of person centered care.
Using anthropological theory, this paper examines human–android interactions (HAI) as an emerging... more Using anthropological theory, this paper examines human–android interactions (HAI) as an emerging aspect of android science. These interactions are described in terms of adaptive learning (which is largely subconscious). This article is based on the observations reported and supplementary data from two studies that took place in Japan with a teleoperated android robot called Telenoid in the socialization of school children and older adults. We argue that interacting with androids brings about a special context, an interval, and a space/time for reflection and imagination that was not there before. During the interaction something happens. There is adaptive learning and as a result, both children and older adults accepted Telenoid, and the children and older adults accepted each other. Using frames of play and ritual, we make sense and ‘capture’ moments of adaptive learning, and the feedback that elicits a social response from all study participants that results in self-efficacy and ...
Painful Conversations is an interdisciplinary anthology about pain. Problems concerning communica... more Painful Conversations is an interdisciplinary anthology about pain. Problems concerning communicating and understanding pain are discussed with examples that stretches from literature to caretaking, from self-induced pain in religious and cultural contexts to problems of pain in theological and philosophical perspectives.
During the night, on September 2004, Jina called for an ambulance after Sima had trouble breathin... more During the night, on September 2004, Jina called for an ambulance after Sima had trouble breathing and then accompanied her to the hospital. Sima was hospitalized and I came to visit them the next morning at 11:30 am in the ward. After an hour, the nurse entered the room and declared that visiting hours were over. While I prepared to take my things I asked Jina whether she was planning to stay again that night. She answered without hesitation “Yes, of course until Ima [mother in Hebrew] will get out” The nurse immediately added, “who else will stay here, she [Jina] is the only true family she [Sima] has”.
La comparaison des deux concours de beaute « Reine de Beaute d’Israel » et « Miss Asie-Israel », ... more La comparaison des deux concours de beaute « Reine de Beaute d’Israel » et « Miss Asie-Israel », qui ont eu lieu en 2006 permet de decrire Israel dans sa quotidiennete. A travers eux, des transformations sociales et culturelles plus larges se font visibles. Chaque spectacle genere des images et des recits essentiels de ce que les femmes « israeliennes » sont et devraient etre et, partant, exprime ce que devrait etre la nation elle-meme. Cette comparaison revele que les deux concours sont inscrits dans l’ordre social de la nation et proposent differents modeles d’israelianite incarnes dans l’affichage du corps feminin.
Introduction: The standardization of global health education and assessment remains a significant... more Introduction: The standardization of global health education and assessment remains a significant issue among global health educators. This paper explores the role of multiple choice questions (MCQs) in global health education: whether MCQs are appropriate in written assessment of what may be perceived to be a broad curriculum packed with fewer facts than biomedical science curricula; what form the MCQs might take; what we want to test; how to select the most appropriate question format; the challenge of quality item-writing; and, which aspects of the curriculum MCQs may be used to assess. Materials and Methods: The Medical School for International Health (MSIH) global health curriculum was blue-printed by content experts and course teachers. A 30-question, 1-h examination was produced after exhaustive item writing and revision by teachers of the course. Reliability, difficulty index and discrimination were calculated and examination results were analyzed using SPSS software. Result...
BACKGROUND Loneliness has become a public health problem described as an epidemic and it has been... more BACKGROUND Loneliness has become a public health problem described as an epidemic and it has been argued that digital behavior such as social media postings affects loneliness. OBJECTIVE The aim of the study is to expand the knowledge on the determinants of loneliness by investigating online postings in a social media forum devoted to loneliness. METHODS We collected a total of 19,668 postings from 11,054 users on the loneliness forum on Reddit. We asked 7 crowdsourced workers to imagine themselves as writing one of 236 randomly chosen posts and administered the short-form UCLA Loneliness Scale (ULS-6) to them. After showing that these postings could provide an assessment of loneliness, we built a predictive model for loneliness scores based on posting text and applied it to all postings. We then analyzed trends in loneliness postings over time and the correlates of loneliness with other topics of interest. RESULTS We find that crowdsourced workers are able to estimate loneliness (I...
BACKGROUND Loneliness has become a public health problem described as an epidemic and it has been... more BACKGROUND Loneliness has become a public health problem described as an epidemic and it has been argued that digital behavior such as social media postings affects loneliness. OBJECTIVE The aim of the study is to expand the knowledge on the determinants of loneliness by investigating online postings in a social media forum devoted to loneliness. METHODS We collected a total of 19,668 postings from 11,054 users on the loneliness forum on Reddit. We asked 7 crowdsourced workers to imagine themselves as writing one of 236 randomly chosen posts and administered the short-form UCLA Loneliness Scale (ULS-6) to them. After showing that these postings could provide an assessment of loneliness, we built a predictive model for loneliness scores based on posting text and applied it to all postings. We then analyzed trends in loneliness postings over time and the correlates of loneliness with other topics of interest. RESULTS We find that crowdsourced workers are able to estimate loneliness (I...
The aim of this paper is to explore the concepts of personhood and compassion, as perceived by st... more The aim of this paper is to explore the concepts of personhood and compassion, as perceived by staff caring for people with dementia (PwD) in community-based dementia daycare. Autonomy in the Western culture is closely related to concepts of personhood and form the cornerstone of person centered care.
Voting against the AAA resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions, see the following lin... more Voting against the AAA resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions, see the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6ecsXl3ygo&feature=youtu.be
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