Preferred Interaction, Don't Leave Home without It!

The age one dental visit-don't leave home without it.

I don’t know how the reader of this editorial is feeling, but I have become weary of the constant emphasis by the press, which includes television, concentrating on negatives in our society, whether it is the “War on Terrorism”, the War in Iraq, and yes, the recent November election. Recently, I had one of those “significant positive emotional events” that alleviated my perseveration on current...

Don't leave home without it.

Time 25 minutes Introduction Here is a fun card game to help students practice the modal verbs of possibility 'may' and 'might' and the demonstrative pronouns 'this' and 'these'. Procedure Divide the students into groups of four. Give each group a set of picture cards. Ask the students to shuffle the cards and place them face down in a pile on the desk. Tell the students that they are going to ...

Gone but not forgotten.

here did Mr. B. go? I've been watching him watch me for the last 4 hours and now that it's finally his turn to be seen he's gone. The least these people could do is tell someone before they leave. But I waited for 8 hours and you never came to see me. First of all — you only waited 7 hours. Don't exaggerate. Second — I was busy seeing other patients. I was saving lives! Yeah, right! I could see...

Being natural - on the use of multimodal interaction concepts in smart homes

Smart home or the home of the future: A notion which is often used when describing the connection of electronic home devices, the exchange of information between actors and sensors via home bus protocols. In her book "Computers As a Theatre", Brenda Laurel put forward the question: "Why don't all the great electronic and micro-processor-based gadgets we have or might have in our home talk to ea...

A spending spree as Chrétien prepares to leave? Don't count on it.