Everyday Experience and System Theory

Abduction, Experience, and Goals: a Model of Everyday Abductive Explanation* Abduction, Experience, and Goals: a Model of Everyday Abductive Explanation

Many abductive understanding systems generate explanations by a backwards chaining process that is neutral both to the explainer's previous experience in similar situations and to why the explainer is attempting to explain. This article examines the relationship of such models to an approach that uses case-based reasoning to generate explanations. In this case-based model, the generation of abd...

Hyper-Reality: Amplifying Everyday Sensory Experience

Ubiquitous computing is making it possible to increase the sensory feedback from everyday spaces to attract attention to often-neglected tasks, make them safer and easier and potentially motivate new behavior. HyperReality describes distributed computing interfaces that weave existing environments with immersive sound and images to expand sensory feedback from everyday activities. This paper di...

Investigating how everyday people experience security

The Youth and Experience of Traffic Accidents (Grounded Theory)

Background: Traffic accidents are among major causes of death all over the world. In Iran, it has become a social problem, with lots of people involved in; and the youth include the most victims of traffic accidents. Objectives: The main objective of this research is to review the experience of the youth (18–24 years old in Tehran, Iran) with traffic accidents, and to develop a model t...

How school nurses experience and understand everyday pain among adolescents

BACKGROUND Pain problems are a rapidly growing health problem found among both children and adolescent, and about 15-30% have reported chronic pain problems. School nurses in Norway meet adolescents with various ailments, including pain. Yet research on how school nurses perceive the pain experienced by adolescents is limited. The aim of the present study was to explore how school nurses explai...