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A Crisis Management Serious Game for Responding Extreme Weather Event
2017
Managing crisis with limited resources through a serious game is deemed as one of the ways of training and can be regarded as an alternative to the table-top exercise. This paper presents the so-called “Operasjon Tyrsdal” serious game, inspired by a real case of extreme weather that hit the west coast of Norway. This reference case is used to add realism to the game. The game is designed for a single player, while the mechanics are framed in such way that the player should deal with limited resources, and elevated event pressure over time to manage. Beside applying an iterative Scrum method with seven Sprint cycles, we combined the development work with desk research and involvement of test…
The Role of Parental Communication and Emotional Intelligence in Child-to-Parent Violence
2019
In recent years, cases of child-to-parent violence (CPV) have increased significantly, prompting greater scientific interest in clarifying its causes. The aim of this research was to study the relationship between styles of family communication (open, offensive and avoidant), emotional intelligence or EI (attention, repair and perceived emotional clarity) and CPV, taking into account the gender of the aggressors. The participants of the study were 1200 adolescents (46.86% boys) between the ages of 12 and 18 enrolled at secondary schools in the Autonomous Communities of Andalusia and Valencia (M = 13.88, SD = 1.32). A Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA, 3 ×
Accessibility of the Italian institutional web pages: a survey on the compliance of the Italian public administration web pages to the Stanca Act and…
2014
Accessibility of the Italian public administration web pages is ruled by the Stanca Act and in particular the Decree of the Minister issued on July 8, 2005. In this paper, an objective test is performed on the official web pages of the Italian province and region chief towns to check their compliance to the 22 technical requirements defined by the Stanca Act. A sample of 976 web pages belonging to the websites of the Italian chief towns have been downloaded in the period October---December 2012. Such a data collection has been submitted to Achecker, the worldwide recognized syntax and accessibility validation service. Several accessibility and syntax errors have been found following the aut…
Accessibility of Public Web Services: A Distant Dream?
2013
Part 1: Long and Short Papers; International audience; Today, many public services are available online through Web sites. The accessibility of the sites, also to people with disabilities, is important because the accessibility concerns equality of citizens, a cornerstone of democracy. In the current study we carried out a meta-analysis of 17 studies concerning the accessibility of the Web sites of public administration. Furthermore, we assessed the accessibility of Web pages of 12 ministries of the Finnish government. The assessments were based on the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). The results showed that in terms of the WCAG guidelines, the average accessibility of public We…
Work at home and time use in Finland
2011
This study examines the relationship between home-based work (HBW) and time use by comparing unpaid (overtime) home workers, paid (agreed) home workers and non-home workers. Especially, unpaid HBW was linked to the stretching of working hours and the reduction of free time.
User-oriented evaluation of mechanical single-channel axial pipettes.
2013
Hand tools should be designed so that they are comfortable to use, fit the hand and are user-oriented. Six different manual, single-channel axial pipettes were evaluated for such objective outcomes as muscular activity, wrist postures and efficiency, as well as for subjective outcomes concerning self-assessed features of pipette usability and musculoskeletal strain. Ten experienced laboratory employees volunteered for the study. The results showed that light and short pipettes with better tool comfort resulted in reduced muscular activity and perceived musculoskeletal strain when they were compared with a long and heavy pipette. There were no differences in the efficiency between the differ…
Evaluation of interaction metaphors for collaborative work distant immersive sites
2009
The design of the virtual environment (VE) has to take into account several factors including the input and output devices, the design of the interaction metaphor or the application domain. In addition to these considerations, the design of a collaborative virtual environment (CVE) needs to take into account the collaborative aspect of the interaction metaphor. In one hand, the interaction metaphor has to be designed for the best possible task performance. In the other hand, the influence of the interaction metaphor on the user's experience (in terms of psychological and social aspects) constitutes an important research question. To address this research question, two experimental studies h…
Psychologie clinique et psychopathologie
2016
National audience; [No abstract]
Identifier les conceptions de l'enseignement et de l'apprentissage pour accompagner le développement professionnel des enseignants débutants à l'univ…
2010
International audience; Les conceptions individuelles agissent comme des filtres dans la compréhension du monde environnant et, de fait, dans le développement individuel. Les enseignants universitaires ne font pas exception à la règle et leurs conceptions à propos de l'enseignement, de l'apprentissage, de ce qui aide les étudiants à apprendre ou encore des qualités associées à un bon enseignant, influencent leurs pratiques professionnelles. Cet article présente les conceptions de l'enseignement et de l'apprentissage observées chez de jeunes enseignants débutants : la diversité des conceptions et la mise en évidence que les différents profils peu-vent être associés au projet professionnel de…
Enseigner l’activité « écriture collaborative »
2019
Although certain education policies emphasize “the ability to collaborate” as a key element of educational reform, education for digital collaboration is poorly supported by public schools. To build the conditions of a sustainable education, we have developed a training model focused on learner autonomy. We present the results of an experiment conducted with students, our pedagogical model and its implementation, as well as our observation and analysis of this experiment. We analyzed discussions in instant messaging between students and teachers, and their productions. All results show the influence of our training. Thus, education and digital collaboration can be built from a triple analyt…