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Cognitive-Behavioural Treatment Package for Teaching Grooming Skills to a Man with an Intellectual Disability
2000
A combination of health education, use of picture cues based on task analyses, a system of least prompts and social reinforcement was applied to teach various grooming skills to a man with a moderate intellectual disability. A multiple baseline design across behaviours was employed to show the effects. The results indicated rapid learning of lacking skills such as tooth brushing, shaving, showering and washing of arms and face.
Hume’s Guillotine in Designing Ethically Intelligent Technologies
2020
Intelligent machines can follow ethical rules in their behaviour. However, it is less clear whether intelligent systems can also create new ethical principles. The former position can be called weak ethical AI and the latter strong ethical AI. Hume’s guillotine which claims that one cannot derive values from facts appears to be a fundamental obstacle to strong ethical AI. The analysis of human ethical information processes provides clarity to the possibility of strong ethical AI. Human ethical information processing begins with positive of negative emotions associated to situations. Situations can be seen as consequences of actions and for this reason people can define rules about acceptabi…
La resistenza di interfaccia calcestruzzo poroso-terreni a grana fina per il consolidamento di pendii mediante trincee drenanti profonde
2022
Le trincee drenanti profonde rappresentano uno dei metodi più efficaci per la mitigazione del rischio da frana, in pendii con falda idrica. Esse sono realizzate mediante pannelli o pali secanti. Il riempimento è costituito di calcestruzzo poroso o materiale granulare. Se le trincee sono adeguatamente “innestate” nel terreno stabile e il materiale di riempimento ha sufficiente resistenza e rigidezza come il calcestruzzo poroso, si ha ulteriore in-cremento di resistenza a taglio per effetto shear keys, oltre a quello derivante dalla riduzione delle pressioni in-terstiziali. L’incremento di resistenza è dovuto sia alla resistenza all’interfaccia calcestruzzo–terreni sia a quella intrinseca del…
Sémiotique des interfaces : la promesse du flat design
2015
International audience; Popularisé par l'informatique, le concept d'interface a connu une extension considérable dans le domaine des sciences de la communication où il désigne tout dispositif favorisant l'échange et l'interaction entre différents actants (personnes, systèmes, objets, etc.) ; l'interface 1 n'est rien d'autre, en fait, que la face opérationnelle du canal de Shannon, le passage obligé de tout processus de communication et particulièrement de médiation puisqu'il s'agit alors d'introduire de la continuité entre deux systèmes aux propriétés différentes, de briser cette frontière commune à deux domaines : plus les éléments à apparier sont hétérogènes ou complexes, plus le rôle de …
An Internet-delivered Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (iCBT) for Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD) in adults: A multiple-baseline single-case experimental …
2022
The death of a loved one has physical, psychological, and social consequences. Between 9.8 and 21.5 % of people who lose a loved one develop Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD). Internet- and computer-based interventions (i.e., Internet-delivered Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, iCBT) are cost-effective and scalable alternatives that make it possible to reach more people with PGD. The main goal of the present investigation was to examine the effect and feasibility (usability and satisfaction) of an iCBT (GROw program) for adults with PGD. A secondary objective was to detect adherence to the app (Emotional Monitor) used to measure daily grief symptoms. The study had a singlecase multiple-baseline AB…
Comunicare l'archeologia: innovazioni multimediali negli allestimenti museali
2014
Negli ultimi anni il tema della comunicazione museale attraverso i più avanzati strumenti di comunicazione è diventato, per i museografi, di forte interesse progettuale. Da diversi anni viene condotto infatti un dibattito molto acceso sui metodi e mezzi di comunicazione a supporto della narrazione archeologica in continuo contrasto fra tradizionalisti e rinnovatori, sul rapporto tra gli oggetti e la multimedialità e sul museo come luogo di apprendimento e divertimento. La ricerca approfondisce l'uso e il ruolo delle nuove tecnologie di comunicazione concentrandosi sulla possibilità di inserimento di essi negli allestimenti a carattere archeologico. Negli ultimi anni, i new media hanno appor…
Child-centred curriculum leadership for the subject of English in Ethiopian primary schools
2017
According to Serbessa (2006) there is a tension between Western pedagogy, in particular child-centred learning, and traditional Ethiopian approaches to teaching. In this study, this tension is examined through the teaching methods used and the resources teachers have at their disposal. The teachers are herein viewed as curriculum leaders, contrasting with the preconception that managers are leaders of a curriculum (Hannay & Seller, 1991). By adopting the educator’s perspective, leadership will be explored from the position of how teachers apply the English syllabus under a curriculum demanding child-centred learning, when teaching English in a state and private international school. Compari…
Make It Intuitive: An Evaluation Practice Emergent from the Plans and Scripted Behavior of the Computer-Community of Practice
2012
The catch phrase today for system designers is to “make it intuitive,” which begs the question, what is intuitive? The action research discussed in this article was the final stage of the application of grounded theory to user data that provided survey categories (criteria) for system acceptance. A theoretical rationale from the discipline of human–computer interaction was proposed to provide a consistent and repeatable interpretation of the users’ responses to the survey and directly align the responses to software design considerations. To put this work into context, I discuss in this article a case study on the use of the survey to monitor the user experience during the upgrade of an ent…
Application of the trans-contextual model to predict change in leisure time physical activity
2021
Objective: This study tested effects of changes in the psychological constructs of the trans-contextual model (TCM) on changes in adolescents' outside of school moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (PA) measured using self-report and accelerometer-based device. Design: A three-wave longitudinal design was used. High school students (N = 331) completed measures of all the TCM constructs at Time1 and at Time2, five weeks apart. Self-reported PA behaviour was measured also at Time3, five weeks after Time2. PA was measured using accelerometer-based devices for seven days following Time1 and Time3 for a census week. Results: A structural equation model using residual change scores revealed tha…
Džeza kultūras izpausmes telpiskajā vidē
2017
Diplomdarbā “Džeza kultūras izpausmes telpiskajā vidē”, analizējot pieejamo literatūru, tiek pētīts jēdziens džezs, tam raksturīgās iezīmes, vēsture un džeza mūzikas telpa. Empīriskajā daļā tiek pētīti džeza telpu interjeri Ņujorkā, Jaunorleānā, Čikāgā, Johanesburgā, Parīzē, Madridē, Kopenhāgenā un Rīgā, kā arī tiek intervēts bijušā kabarē/bāra ‘Artelis Gandrīz teātris’ īpašnieks. Radošajā daļā tiek izstrādāts interjera dizaina projekts džeza kafejnīcai. Darbs sastāv no četrām nodaļām: pirmajā nodaļā tiek aplūkots jēdziens džezs, ieskats džeza vēsturē, otrajā nodaļā tiek pētīta telpa, kurā tika atskaņota džeza mūzika, raksturīgās iezīmēs telpas izveidē džeza laikmetā, skatuves veidi un apda…