Search results for " Awareness"

Identifying First Responders Information Needs

2016

At the onset of an indoor fire emergency, the availability of the information becomes critical due to the chaotic situation at the emergency site. Moreover, if information is lacking, not shared, or responders are too overloaded to acknowledge it, lives can be lost and property can be harmed. Therefore, the goal of this paper is to identify information items that are needed for first responders during search and rescue operations. The authors use an educational building fire emergency as a case and show how first responders can be supported by getting access to information that are stored in different information systems. The research methodology used was a combination of literature review,…

Ubiquitous Co-Driver System and Its Effects on the Situation Awareness of the Driver

2008

The aim of this paper is to explore the effects of ubiquitous computing in cars on the situation awareness and expectations of the driver. In a driving simulation environment with participants using a co-driver system, we investigated how people took and recovered from misinformation provided by the system. The system presented safety-critical information about the upcoming curves on the road, but in the experiment part of the messages contained false information. The effects of this information on participants’ behavior were investigated. On the grounds of the experiment, we discuss two approaches for investigating drivers’ situational awareness, which are based on either mental workload o…

2017

Social media has become an important tool for sport organisations to interact with fans. In particular for sports that have smaller marketing budgets and that do not receive mainstream media coverage on a daily basis, social media platforms provide unique communication and marketing opportunities to overcome such challenges. This study investigates the motives of fans to communicate on the Facebook page of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). It is the first study that focuses on the use of social media in the context of an international sport federation. Knowledge about the gratifications sought by fans while interacting on social media is important for organisations to develo…

A propósito del desarrollo sostenible: Origen, evolución y teorías alternativas

2016

Resumen . El Desarrollo Sostenible representa el modelo de desarrollo al que todas las sociedades deberian aspirar con el objetivo de mantener en equilibrio el sistema ecologico de nuestro Planeta, al menos para conservarlo tal como hoy lo conocemos. De no ser asi, las condiciones de vida existentes corren peligro de cambiar drasticamente y las consecuencias a nivel ambiental, social y economico podrian ser catastroficas. Desde la acunacion oficial del concepto, del que ya han pasado casi 30 anos, los principios del Desarrollo Sostenible (a pesar de la mayor concienciacion social y politica) todavia quedan muy distantes de una aplicacion real y de una consecucion optima de sus objetivos. Lo…

Supporting Awareness in Creative Group Work by Exposing Design Rationale

2011

When creativity is taken as a long-term, complex, and collaborative activity, support for awareness is required for group members to monitor the development of ideas, track how these ideas became narrowed, and understand how alternatives are being implemented and integrated by colleagues. In this paper, we investigate the effects of exposing design rationale to convey awareness, specifically activity awareness, in group creativity. Through evaluating a prototype, we investigate status updates that convey design rationale, and to what consequences, in small groups in fully distributed collaboration. We found that status updates are used for a variety of purposes and that participants’ commen…

Adaptīva lietotāja saskarne adrešu un plānotāja grāmatas Android lietotnes kontekstā

2019

Lietotāja saskarne ir tā, kas savieno lietotāju un lietojumprogrammu. Tas ir viens no vissvarīgākajiem aspektiem, kas rada lielu interesi par lietojumprogrammu. Daudzi dizaineri lietojumprogrammās piemēro adaptīvo lietotāja interfeisa (AUI) dizainu, lai lietotāji varētu justies laimīgi un apmierināti, lietojot programmu. Rakstā aprakstīta Android programmas, kas saucas Address&Planner Book, izstrāde, kurā var saglabāt svarīgus kontaktus un plānus un informēt lietotājus. Lietojumprogramma varētu pielāgot lietotāja saskarņu saturu un dizainu atbilstoši kontekstam, kas saistīts ar katru lietotāju, lai paredzētu lietotāja darbības un piedāvātu ērtu lietošanu. Programma ir izstrādāta, izmantojot…

Environmental Features Associated With Older Adults' Physical Activity in Different Types of Urban Neighborhoods.

2020

The authors studied associations of nature- and infrastructure-based features with physical activity (PA) in different urban neighborhood types; 848 community-dwelling people aged 75–90 years reported PA and three perceived nature-based destinations and seven infrastructure-based features as outdoor mobility facilitators. Neighborhood type was defined using a geographic information system based on proximity to central service areas and residential density (city center, subcenter, and dense and dispersed areas outside centers). PA was higher in dense areas and the city center. Binary logistic regression showed that perceiving nature-based destinations increased the odds for higher PA in the …

Vitamin D deficiency and leisure time activities in the elderly: are all pastimes the same?

2014

Background Optimal vitamin D status is important for overall health and well-being, particularly in the elderly. Although vitamin D synthesis in the skin declines with age, exposure to sunlight still seems to help older-aged adults to achieve adequate serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) levels. Elderly people would therefore benefit from outdoor leisure activities, but the effects of different types of pastime on serum 25OHD levels have yet to be thoroughly investigated. Aims To assess the association of different pastimes with 25OHD deficiency in elderly subjects. Methods A sample of 2,349 community-dwelling elderly individuals (1,389 females and 960 males) enrolled in the Progetto Veneto An…

Lifestyles and risk factors associated with adherence to the Mediterranean diet: a baseline assessment of the PREDIMED trial

2013

Background: The traditional Mediterranean dietary pattern (MedDiet) is associated with longevity and low rates of cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, there is little information on who is more likely to follow this food pattern. Aim: To evaluate how different factors are associated with lower MedDiet adherence in older Spanish subjects. Methods: We included 7305 participants (men aged 55-80 y, women 60-80 y) at high-risk of CVD recruited into the PREDIMED trial (ISRCTN35739639). Socioeconomic, anthropometric, lifestyle characteristics and CVD risk factors were recorded. A validated 14-item questionnaire was used to evaluate MedDiet adherence at baseline. Multivariate models were used to …

Effects of Message Appeal when Communicating CSR Initiatives

2011

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) can be defined as those business activities which take into account the public consequences of company decisions over and above the simple compliance with government regulations (Menguc and Ozanne, 2005; Sharma, 2000). Thus, the management of a company should go beyond the economic concerns, considering both the social and environmental issues as relevant (Clarkson, 1991). Previous research highlights the importance of CSR for firms’ stakeholders, yet researchers find low consumer awareness of socially responsible initiatives (Beckmann, 2007; Du et al., 2007; Pomering and Dolnicar, 2009). How to communicate socially responsible initiatives is an importa…