abstract background: in recent years, there has been a rise in the number of premature births. mothers of these newborns experience a high degree of stress over time. since a more comprehensive understanding of this phenomenon can help the healthcare teams in detecting the deficiencies and needs of such newborns’ mothers for a better and more effective intervention, the present study was carrie...

background: over the years, the concept technology has modified, especially from the viewpoint of the development of scientific knowledge as well as the philosophical and artistic aspects. however, the concept of technology in nursing are still poorly understood. only small qualitative studies, especially in iran, have investigated this phenomenon and they just are about information technology....

objectives: the aim of this study was to explain the various style of leisure activity and recreation of elderly people in tehran. methods & materials: to achieve this purpose, 17 older participants within the age range of 65-86 years who were selected through purposeful sampling undertook semi structured interviews. a conventional qualitative content analysis was used for analyzing the data. r...

Video shots provide the most basic meaningful segments for video analysis and understanding. In this paper, we present a detection and classification framework for the video shot segmentation in a coarse-to-fine fashion. The initial transitions are detected from a sub-sampled video space. These coarse segments are later refined in the original video space with the technique of illumination arti...

Seniors with dementia living in residential nursing homes are often lack of meaningful engagement and keeping them engaged in meaningful activities can help reduce boredom and improve their well-being. This paper presents an Interactive Table Design (ITD) for providing seniors with dementia meaningful engagements. An observational engagement assessment method, Video Coding – Incorporating Obser...

In this article, we provide an overview of the emerging research area on Analytics and Video-Based Learning. Although there are many and diverse ways of designing learning videos, there is limited understanding of the efficacy and usefulness of each method. Therefore, we survey the state-of-the-art in the design, development and evaluation of open and video-based courses. The main objective is ...

In this paper we describe a model of the process by which people solve problems using information visualization systems. The model was based on video analysis of forty dyads who performed information visualization tasks in an experiment. We examined the following variables: focused questions vs. free data discovery, remote vs. collocated collaboration, and systems judged to have high and low tr...

Organizational culture represents a key success factor in highly competitive environments, such as, the IT sector. Thus, IT companies need to understand what makes up a culture that fosters employee performance. While existing research typically uses self-report questionnaires to study the relation of culture and the success of companies, the validity of this approach is often discussed and res...