The scientific and industrial community related to the videogame (VG) research and business is ever more concerned about the need for proper evaluation and assessment of games. This paper proposes an assessment methodology based on the Personal Construct Theory (PCT). The PCT allows identifying constructs can be processed to define a space where domainrelevant items – VGs, in our case can be po...

Groups and their members can be seen as experiencing a ‘life cycle’, characterised by a sequence of developmental stages. Life cycle models typically present these stages as phenomena of group experience. This paper experiments with the application of Personal Construct Psychology to phases of group development, describing these as processes of construing and elaboration made more vivid by the ...

objective: having a good quality of life has always been desirable for humans, and the concept of a good life and the ways of achieving it have become important over the years. personal wellbeing is the mental component of quality of life. thus, the current study was conducted to assess the reliability and validity of the ‘‘personal well-being index- cognitive disability’’ on mentally retarded ...

Molecular diagnostics based on the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) offer rapid and sensitive means for detecting infectious disease, but prohibitive costs have impeded their use in resource-limited settings where such diseases are endemic. In this work, we report an innovative method for transforming a desktop computer and a mobile camera phone--devices that have become readily accessible in de...

Personal construct theory and repertory grid technique provides a suitable framework for exploring Registered Nursing students' perceptions of their psychiatric practicum. This descriptive research was designed to understand students' own ways of constructing knowledge during their mental health clinical experience. A constructivist conceptual perspective and George Kelly's personal construct p...

Personal Learning Environments have emerged as a complementary, even challenging, paradigm to Adaptive Learning Systems. One can argue that Pervasive Learning Environments aim at replacing the physical learning environment while Adaptive Learning Systems focus on replacing the instructor. We believe that amalgamation of these two approaches in a complementary manner, i.e. through setting an app...