[Purpose] The aim of this study was to clarify essential abilities of novice physical and occupational therapists for independent execution of their duties and to develop a clinical competence assessment tool. [Subjects] Forty-five experienced therapists participated in this study. [Methods] A two-phase mixed-methods design was used. First, semi structured interviews were conducted on 15 experi...

This paper describes an intelligent learning environment for novice users of a GUI. The learning environment allows users to work in a protected way; it monitors their actions and reasons about them so that it can make hypotheses about what their real intentions have been and examine whether these have been met. In case the system believes that the user has made an error it informs him/her abou...

The aim of the present study was identify the most significant problems that Spanish novice physical education teachers encountered during their first teaching experiences. A mixed methodology (quantitative and qualitative) was utilized through questionnaires and interviews. The Inventory of Teaching Problems developed by Jordell (1985) was translated, revalidated to physical education and comp...

The Twiddler one–handed chording keyboard offers rapid mobile text entry on a keypad similar to that of a standard mobile telephone. Previously we found that novice users could be trained to type 47 words per minute (wpm) while one participant reached 67 wpm. Here, we present an evaluation designed to examine which combination of two typing aids helps novice Twiddler typists the most. Specifica...

Data Mining techniques plays a vital role like extraction of required knowledge, finding useful information to make strategic decision in a novel way which in term understandable by domain experts. Users like expert user, novice user and connoisseur user in which expert user can complete process on its own knowledge while compared to novice user and connoisseur user because of their less domain...

This paper presents a study focused on comparing driving behavior of expert and novice drivers in a mid-range driving simulator with the intention of evaluating the validity of driving simulators for driver training. For the investigation, measurements of performance, psychophysiological measurements, and self-reported user experience under different conditions of driving tracks and driving ses...

This paper addresses perspectives of creative teaching and learning strategies in the new learning context of mobile technology, particularly for novice learners. The discussion presented here is framed by two case studies and uses an ethnographical approach, informed by participant observation to consider the experiences of users of mobile devices who do not have prior experience with informat...

The purpose of the study was to investigate the challenges faced by the nurses during the first years of their nursing work. A total of 31 novice nurses were included in the sample that answered a questionnaire with open and closed questions. The data analysis was conducted by using the qualitative software called Atlas Ti. The novice nurses deal with some challenges related to: a) leadership t...

This article is an integrated review whose key objective is to give a summary of findings related to errors made by novice nurses when making clinical decisions. Some of the common error types that novice nurses commit include patient falls, delay in treatment, and medication errors. Hence, the three significant themes that the article focuses on are forms of errors, their causes, and finally, ...

This paper reports on a next step in a line o f research taking the perspective that modelling as an activity is a ‘constrained conversation’. We focus on concrete communication situations in context o f (enterprise) modelling sessions, with special attention to the involvement o f ‘novice modellers’. We present some theoretical notions that are helpful in understanding why modelling performed ...