In this commentary, we elaborate on the necessity to choose among a wider, higher-level conceptual approach and a more concrete, skills oriented one in HCI education, as a result of HCI enlarging scope and curriculum pressures. First, the role and usefulness of more abstract topics are discussed, and second, some reflections on how to cover them in HCI education are presented.

SsfPack is a set of procedures with a strong link to the object-oriented matrix programming language Ox. In this review I Þrst discuss installation issues and prerequisites for a productive use of SsfPack, namely statistical and econometric knowledge, programming skills and additional software. Next I discuss the documentation and sample programs. Before concluding I discuss extensions in the d...

Proponents of the object-oriented (OO) paradigm frequently claim that the OO paradigm is ‘more natural’ than the procedural paradigm because the world is filled with objects that have both attributes and behaviors. However students in higher education generally experience considerable difficulty in understanding OO concepts and acquiring the necessary skills in object-oriented analysis and desi...

Background The Mobility Opportunities Via Education (MOVE)TM curriculum includes movement-oriented activities for children with profound multiple disabilities (PMD) and fits in the current educational view in supporting these children. The developers of MOVE claim effects at anatomical and physiological structures and functions as essential for effects at functional skills. This study analysed ...

Universities are continually seeking effective responses to the challenges created by the increased demand for continuing professional education from a diverse client group responding to the pressures for lifelong learning. The growth in information and communications technologies has created new environments in which learning can occur. New technologies open up possibilities for bringing toget...

In this paper we study whether the progressive liberalization of the U.S. telecommunications industry has altered the psychology of firms’ behavior and led to performance changes. A detailed theoretical framework is developed, based on extension of the postulates of x-efficiency theory. Such an extension of x-efficiency theory enables us to make predictions regarding the direction of performanc...

Although mental health problems increase markedly during adolescent years, therapists often find it difficult to engage with adolescents. The majority of disturbed adolescents do not receive professional mental health care and of those who do fewer still will fully engage with the therapeutic process (Offer, Howard et al. 1991; US Department of Health and Human Services 1999). Personal Investig...