We are developing a system for self-reflection and mood monitoring ultimately focused on the treatment and clinical management of depression. We plan to analyze movement sensor data to infer internal, mood states from individuals’ externally-observable behavior, and then present this as feedback to help individuals develop a greater awareness of their moods throughout the day. Coupled with in s...

Two years ago, the School of Social Work embarked upon a new and challenging initiative to create sustainable structural changes that enrich gerontological learning experiences for all our BSW and MSW students, faculty, fieldwork instructors and community practitioners. We envisioned that participation in this initiative would enable us to expand and embed geriatric content in the undergraduate...

Book with the program. The NES2012 Proceedings has a separate ISBN number stated in a separate ISBN document. The NES conferences have a long tradition of serving as a meeting place for researchers and practitioners. The papers included in the proceedings are peerreviewed scientific and practitioners’ papers, reflecting the variety of ergonomics. The scientific papers from the research context,...

The acquisition and growth of technological knowledge is fundamental to competitive advantage in the emerging knowledge economy. This article explores the notion of technological learning as a means of developing the capabilities that underpin long term sustainable innovation. The research project was designed to identify new ways of understanding learning in the context of technology-driven SM...

The article presents critical analysis of the state of the art in contemporary studies in social organization as factor affecting rural economic growth. We outline two major theoretical and methodological challenges that researchers have to face in order to progress further in understanding of the driving forces and obstacles to sustainable rural economic growth in developing societies. First, ...

The importance of culture and cultural heritage for the achievement sustainable development is widely stressed in official documents. Nevertheless, role Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Agenda 2030 limited practical terms, as explicit references to it only appear Target 11.4. Focusing on built heritage, article tries throw light its potential with regard all 17 SDGs by reflecting environmen...

I am of an age now that the first section of the newspaper I turn to in the morning is the obituaries. On October 1, I read with great sadness of the death of Ian McWhinney on September 28. I only met Dr McWhinney twice, although his writing has been a touchstone for me in my career as a family doctor. The first time I met him was about a decade ago when he gave a talk to a group of colleagues ...

This paper introduces the idea of using real mirrors in combination with rear-projection systems for the purpose of interacting with and navigating through the displayed information. Subsequently a derived application is described. For this, we use a hand-held planar mirror and address two fundamental problems of applying head tracking with rear-projection planes: the limited viewing volume of ...