scholarly journals Not Just a Slice: Animal Crossing and a Life Ongoing

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2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (22) ◽  
pp. 72-88
Author(s):  
Gracie Lu Straznickas
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Pain Management ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
It Impacts ◽  
Game World ◽  
The World ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Insight Into

This paper defines and examines a genre of videogames I call slice of life and reflects upon the use and appeal of the genre for different audiences. I develop an account of the slice of life genre by defining three critical traits: the mundane activities comprising most of the game time, the normativity of social interactions within the world, and the ongoingness of the game world in the absence of the player. Utilizing a journal and experience-based methodology, I present my own experience with chronic pain and pain management to assess how Animal Crossing: New Leaf, a game that falls into this slice of life category, was useful to me as a disabled player. My analysis not only reveals a connection between my experience in Animal Crossing: New Leaf and pain management, but also offers insight into how the slice of life genre involves different metagames for different audiences. Future work may address more case studies in further development of the slice of life genre as well as how it impacts different audiences.

scholarly journals The Effectiveness of Multi-Label Classification and Multi-Output Regression in Social Trait Recognition

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (12) ◽  
pp. 4127
Author(s):  
Will Farlessyost ◽  
Kelsey-Ryan Grant ◽  
Sara R. Davis ◽  
David Feil-Seifer ◽  
Emily M. Hand
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
First Impressions ◽  
Social Traits ◽  
Judicial Proceedings ◽  
Facial Attributes ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Automated Methods ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Social Trait ◽  
Better Than

First impressions make up an integral part of our interactions with other humans by providing an instantaneous judgment of the trustworthiness, dominance and attractiveness of an individual prior to engaging in any other form of interaction. Unfortunately, this can lead to unintentional bias in situations that have serious consequences, whether it be in judicial proceedings, career advancement, or politics. The ability to automatically recognize social traits presents a number of highly useful applications: from minimizing bias in social interactions to providing insight into how our own facial attributes are interpreted by others. However, while first impressions are well-studied in the field of psychology, automated methods for predicting social traits are largely non-existent. In this work, we demonstrate the feasibility of two automated approaches—multi-label classification (MLC) and multi-output regression (MOR)—for first impression recognition from faces. We demonstrate that both approaches are able to predict social traits with better than chance accuracy, but there is still significant room for improvement. We evaluate ethical concerns and detail application areas for future work in this direction.

Pain in Europe

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Eccleston ◽  
Bart Morlion ◽  
Christopher Wells
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Palliative Care ◽  
Pain Management ◽  
Cancer Pain ◽  
Final Section ◽  
International Association ◽  
Main Section ◽  
Cancer Pain Management ◽  
The World

There are over 740 million people living in the 37 countries who are members of the European Pain Federation of chapters of the International Association for the Study of Pain. The editors introduce the field of pain management, in particular the work of over 20,000 people in acute (largely injury related) pain, chronic pain including cancer pain management, and palliative care. We then describe how the book European Pain Management is structured. There are three sections: an introduction to the world of pain and the epidemiology of pain. The main section, which is 37 chapters long, reports describing the practice of pain management in each country, the challenges and innovations. And a final section looks at specific issues that cut across all nations, and ends with a concluding analysis of the statue of European Pain Management.

Pymatuning earthquake in Pennsylvania and Late Minoan Crisis on Crete

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 245-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Gorokhovich ◽  
G. Fleeger
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Water Loss ◽  
Numerous Case ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
Insight Into

One of the previously published hypotheses on Late Minoan Crisis on Crete considers water loss in aquifers as a reason that forced late Minoan people to abandon their palaces and settlements. According to this hypothesis the water loss in aquifers is attributed to the activity of repeated earthquakes at that time. This hypothesis was supported by numerous case studies of the effects of earthquakes on aquifers in various geological regions around the world. Presented study concentrates on detailed description of the one of the most interesting cases, the aquifer in Pennsylvania (USA) damaged by the relatively moderate Pymatuning earthquake in 1998, and compares its geological settings with similar conditions on Crete, specifically near Phaistos and Knossos palaces. Pymatuning earthquake resulted in devastating effect on approximately 120 households that lost drinking water from wells. The lessons from Pymatuning earthquake provide a unique insight into similar situation that could occur 3,600 years BP on Crete.

scholarly journals Patients’ Needs and Requirements for eHealth Pain Management Interventions: Qualitative Study (Preprint)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid Konstanse Ledel Solem ◽  
Cecilie Varsi ◽  
Hilde Eide ◽  
Olöf Birna Kristjansdottir ◽  
Jelena Mirkovic ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Pain Management ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
User Preferences ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Management Intervention ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Ehealth Intervention ◽  
Insight Into

BACKGROUND A growing body of evidence supports the potential effectiveness of electronic health (eHealth) interventions in managing chronic pain. However, research on the needs and preferences of patients with chronic pain in relation to eHealth interventions is scarce. Eliciting user input in the development of eHealth interventions may be a crucial step toward developing meaningful interventions for patients for potentially improving treatment outcomes. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to explore the experiences of patients with chronic pain with regard to information and communication technology, understand how an eHealth intervention can support the everyday needs and challenges of patients with chronic pain, and identify possible facilitators and barriers for patients’ use of an eHealth pain management intervention. METHODS Twenty patients living with chronic pain and five spouses participated in individual interviews. Semistructured interview guides were used to explore participants’ needs, experiences, and challenges in daily life as well as their information and communication technology experiences and preferences for eHealth support interventions. Spouses were recruited and interviewed to gain additional insight into the patients’ needs. The study used qualitative thematic analysis. RESULTS The participants were generally experienced technology users and reported using apps regularly. They were mainly in favor of using an eHealth self-management intervention for chronic pain and considered it a potentially acceptable way of gathering knowledge and support for pain management. The participants expressed the need for obtaining more information and knowledge, establishing a better balance in everyday life, and receiving support for improving communication and social participation. They provided suggestions for the eHealth intervention content and functionality to address these needs. Accessibility, personalization, and usability were emphasized as important elements for an eHealth support tool. The participants described an ideal eHealth intervention as one that could be used for support and distraction from pain, at any time or in any situation, regardless of varying pain intensity and concentration capacity. CONCLUSIONS This study provides insight into user preferences for eHealth interventions aiming to address self-management for chronic pain. Participants highlighted important factors to be considered when designing and developing eHealth interventions for self-management of chronic pain, illustrating the importance and benefit of including users in the development of eHealth interventions. CLINICALTRIAL ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03705104; https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03705104.

The Multiple Voices of American Klezmer

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 367-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
ABIGAIL WOOD
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
World Music ◽  
Old World ◽  
Jewish Music ◽  
Jewish Heritage ◽  
Multiple Voices ◽  
The World ◽  
European Jewish ◽  
Radical Transformation ◽  
Insight Into

Since the 1970s, klezmer has undergone a revival and radical transformation. Originally a European Jewish music, klezmer is now a staple of the world music scene. Although the fusion of instrumental and vocal genres under a single musical umbrella is a significant marker of change between the Old World and revived klezmer repertories, the extension of the boundaries of the klezmer repertory to encompass vocal material has largely been overlooked by practitioners and scholars. This article reinstates song in the narrative of the klezmer revival, exploring how and why it has assumed its prominent position. In case studies of three ensembles, song gives insight into the sensibilities of individual musicians and offers a prism through which to consider contemporary klezmer as both an American Jewish heritage music and a world music genre.

scholarly journals Women’s Empowerment: an Insight into History and the Present Day

SIASAT ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 161-167
Author(s):  
Oksana Koshulko
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
The World ◽  
Insight Into

The article presents the results of research concerning the empowerment of women from the 17th to 21st century in various countries, including Mexico, the U.K., the U.S.A., Ukraine and France among others. Fourteen cases of women's empowerment in their areas of activity are explored, using case studies collected from primary and secondary data. Twelve of the cases are described and explored using secondary data and two cases using primary data, collected in 2019 in Kyiv, Ukraine. The cases are encrypted as Case 1 - C_ 1 through to Case 14 - C_ 14. The article is an important insight into women's empowerment through history to the present, showing how at times women have sacrificed themselves to achieve their aims and how these sacrifices are important for women of today. However, despite the achievements throughout the centuries, women must continue their struggle to obtain full rights and freedom for all women around the world.

Grouping the Similar among the Disconnected Bloggers

2013 ◽  
pp. 54-71
Author(s):  
Nitin Agarwal ◽  
Debanjan Mahata
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Predictive Modeling ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Search Space ◽  
Link Analysis ◽  
Interaction Patterns ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
The World ◽  
Osama Bin Laden

Social interactions are an essential ingredient of our lives. People convene groups and share views, opinions, thoughts, and perspectives. Similar tendencies for social behavior are observed in the World Wide Web. This inspires us to study and understand social interactions evolving in online social media, especially in the blogosphere. In this chapter, the authors study and analyze various interaction patterns in community and individual blogs. This would lead to better understanding of the implicit ties between these blogs to foster collaboration, improve personalization, predictive modeling, and enable tracking and monitoring. Tapping interactions among bloggers via link analysis has its limitations due to the sparse nature of the links among the blogs and an exponentially large search space. The authors present two methodologies to observe interaction within the blogs via observed events addressing the challenges with link analysis-based approaches by studying the opinion and sentiments of the bloggers towards the events and the entities associated with the events. The authors present two case studies: (1) “Saddam Hussein’s Verdict” and (2) “The Death of Osama Bin Laden.” Through these case studies, they leverage their proposed models and report their findings and observations. Although the models offer promising opportunities, there are a few limitations. The authors discuss these challenges and envisage future directions to make the model more robust.

scholarly journals Navigating Through the Experienced Environment: Insights From Mobile Eye Tracking

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 286-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koraly Pérez-Edgar ◽  
Leigha A. MacNeill ◽  
Xiaoxue Fu
Keyword(s):  
Visual Field ◽  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Gaze Patterns ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Mobile Eye Tracking

Researchers are acutely interested in how people engage in social interactions and navigate their environment. However, in striving for experimental or laboratory control, we often instead present individuals with representations of social and environmental constructs and infer how they would behave in more dynamic and contingent interactions. Mobile eye tracking (MET) is one approach to connecting the laboratory to the experienced environment. MET superimposes gaze patterns captured through head- or eyeglass-mounted cameras pointed at the eyes onto a separate camera that captures the visual field. As a result, MET allows researchers to examine the world from the point of view of the individual in action. This review touches on the methods and questions that can be asked with this approach, illustrating how MET can provide new insight into social, behavioral, and cognitive processes from infancy through old age.

scholarly journals YOUNG PEOPLE AND VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES. NEW WAYS OF LEARNING AND OF SOCIAL PARTICIPATION IN THE DIGITAL SOCIETY

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo Rivera-Vargas ◽  
Raquel Miño-Puigcercós
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Participation ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Opportunities To Learn ◽  
The World

This paper is based on a research project developed in Spain, where we explored how and what young people learn in virtual communities. Although the term virtual community has been broadly used to approach online social interactions, it has generated several academic debates. Nevertheless, it is a useful term to define a social network made up mostly of young people who share an interest and choose to interact online with others to discuss, exchange, show their creations to the world, and promote certain values. As researchers on Sociology and Education, we find this phenomenon especially intriguing. We wonder why young people engage in virtual communities, why they should spend so much time interacting with others online and what benefits they consider they have. Our hypothesis is that it has to do with a shared sense of belonging to a community and the possibilities young people find to create opportunities to learn with and from each other. The results of this article are based on the analysis of seven case studies conducted in virtual communities, and they address two main questions: what leads young people to participate in virtual communities and how is learning and social participation promoted through virtual communities.

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