Plural Navigation : Navigation for a Wholesome Experience

Navigation Platforms like Google Maps, use objective and generic quantitative data to provide all its users’ an optimized path between their intended point A and point B. This paper opens up questions like– is the primary goal of navigation to reach the destination? If not, then what all are the constituents and parameters of a journey between then A and B? What are the parallels in the offline and online navigation experience? Furthermore, what experiences need to be aided by technology? The paper’s focus is on identifying guiding principles for designing navigation experiences.

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Humanizing Technology or Mechanizing Humans

We are living in a digital world. Integrating part by part our lives with technology and finding aid to our needs, problems, curiosity, entertainment, ailments through it. We are left amazing by how an application through the web can deliver such deceptively simple solutions to the world’s cribbing and literally take them to the world…

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GIRLS AND WOMEN IN HIGHER EDUCATION AND AT WORK

Though the literacy rates and almost been the same and the women employment rates have been slightly declining in the past few years, more and more women are empowered now and are making their way into such conversations. It is a common saying, “Empowered women empower other women” and that I feel is growing steeply.

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Trauma and its Impact on Childhood and Child Development

ABSTRACTThe literature on traumas of childhood and its effect on them in the form ofpermanent atypical behavior due to traumatic experiences, violence, and neglectsuggest that the violence either results in the child being antisocial or to the otherextreme of being unreasonably willing to socialize with any stranger. The effect isalso shown as either of developing…

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