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Tracks to Analyze Emotions Around Artifact Mediators to Improve Training and Business Creation for Specific Publics in French Universities

Authors:
Christian Bourret

Keywords: Universities; new publics; economic activities creation; young people; unemployment.

Abstract:
In France, with the economic crisis and the huge rate of unemployment, the role of Universities has changed in the recent years. They try to promote the creation of new economic activities to attract new publics, especially coming from disadvantaged areas in great town suburbs, particularly unemployed young people. We present the experiment of Creators of Activities University Degrees (DUCA) around cooperative devices or Creators’ Groups (GC). These DUCA / GC correspond to an individual project part of a global dynamic in a collective approach. In a perspective of rebuilding the person in a project dynamic of creation of economic activity, information gathering and communication issues are central. We propose some tracks to analyze these cooperative devices through two Mediator Artifacts developed in the DUCA / GC areas of cooperation: the business plan of the activities creators and the training for activity creation serious game “Solutia”. They help to reveal the emotions and feelings of activities’ creators to help to develop both their business skills and their innovative mind.

Pages: 9 to 13

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016

Publication date: November 13, 2016

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2519-8351

ISBN: 978-1-61208-519-7

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from November 13, 2016 to November 17, 2016