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La transition entre le secondaire I et la poursuite d’études ou d’une formation professionnelle, qu’elle soit duale ou en école exclusivement, constitue une phase délicate dans la vie des jeunes. Ces derniers doivent en effet entamer un processus de choix et d’orientation qui déterminera une partie de leur transition à la vie active. Ces choix découlent bien entendu des souhaits…

Les informations librement accessibles recèlent des potentiels encore en partie inexploités, qui intéressent toutes les parties prenantes. Mais les obstacles à leur utilisation sont nombreux car les indicateurs qui en résultent sont peu référencés et certains résultats sont encore relativisés par la problématique de la fiabilité et de la vérification des sources.

This article shows the preliminary results of an ongoing study to develop a system that financially rewards individuals with diabetes. Previous studies have already shown that monetary incentives appear to be the strongest motivator for older individuals with type II diabetes. Nonetheless, design criteria for a mobile service are not well established and there is no study available…

Building upon and extending Parker, Bindl, and Strauss’s (2010)theory of proactive motivation, we develop an integrated, multilevel model to examine how contextual factors shape employees’ proactive motivational states and, through these proactive motivational states, influence their personal initiative behavior. Using data from a sample of hotels collected from 3 sources and over 2…

Scholars studying intuition are frequently focusing on decision takers and to this day, they conceptualize intuition as a form of judgment. More recently, the notion of intuition in creativity has been challenged by the argument that although the creative process may contain intuitive judgments, any creative idea or solution is essentially the result of intuitive insight. This…

As suggested by previous results, whether, when designing robots, we should make use of social stereotypes and thus perpetuate them is question of present concern. The aim of this study was the identification of the specific conditions under which people’s judgments of robots were no longer guided by stereotypes. The study participants were 121 individuals between 18 and 69 years of…