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Voices from the Margins: Discursive Nonviolence [PDF]

open access: yesحقوق بشر, 2020
Violence generally monopolizes the discourse of social change. An alternative voice is that of marginalized people who confront nonviolently the danger of forfeited basic rights and need to secure rights.
Rachel Spory
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Perceptual Relevance of Haptic Feedback during Virtual Plucking, Bowing and Rubbing of Physically-Based Musical Resonators

open access: yesArts, 2023
The physics-based design and realization of a digital musical interface asks for the modeling and implementation of the contact-point interaction with the performer. Musical instruments always include a resonator that converts the input energy into sound,
Marius George Onofrei   +2 more
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Changing the landscape of mental health among college students: a community case study of a course on learning sustainable well-being

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2023
Our society is facing an unprecedented mental health crisis, with nearly one in two people being affected by mental health issues over their lifespan. This trend is especially noticeable among college students, who undergo significant shifts in social ...
Karen Dobkins   +3 more
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Heterogeneity in making: Findings, approaches, and reflections on inclusivity in making and makerspaces

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Dynamics, 2023
Making, that is, the hobbyist and technologically based creation of things, has been associated with many benefits. It is considered to contribute to the development of skills and to enable participation in innovation, and even democracy.
Verena Fuchsberger   +7 more
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Wellbeing at Work—Emotional Impact on Workers Using a Worker Guidance System Designed for Positive User Experience

open access: yesMultimodal Technologies and Interaction, 2022
Wellbeing at work can be achieved through different strategies; designing for a positive user experience (UX) is one way. However, the relationship between wellbeing and professionally used technology is rather unexplored, especially in work areas that ...
Magdalena Laib   +7 more
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Exploring Teens as Robot Operators, Users and Witnesses in the Wild

open access: yesFrontiers in Robotics and AI, 2020
As social robots continue to show promise as assistive technologies, the exploration of appropriate and impactful robot behaviors is key to their eventual success.
Elin A. Björling   +3 more
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The crisis of liberal democracies and the need for a new “social contract” in the post-Covid 19 era

open access: yesComparative Cultural Studies, 2020
This article analyses the crisis of liberal democracies, coming before the Covid 19 era but worsened with this virus emergency. The main argument of the article is that this public health threat amplified problems that Western liberal democracies already
Maurizio Geri
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FaiR-IoT: Fairness-aware Human-in-the-Loop Reinforcement Learning for Harnessing Human Variability in Personalized IoT [PDF]

open access: yesIoTDI 2021: Proceedings of the International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation, 2021
Thanks to the rapid growth in wearable technologies, monitoring complex human context becomes feasible, paving the way to develop human-in-the-loop IoT systems that naturally evolve to adapt to the human and environment state autonomously. Nevertheless, a central challenge in designing such personalized IoT applications arises from human variability ...
arxiv   +1 more source

Preliminary study on the effects of treatment for breast cancer: immunological markers as they relate to quality of life and neuropsychological performance

open access: yesBMC Women's Health, 2020
Background Immunological biomarkers were related to quality of life and neuropsychological performance in women recently diagnosed with breast cancer through the first six months of treatment.
Michael J. Boivin   +3 more
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Event-Related Potentials as Markers of Efficacy for Combined Working Memory Training and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Regimens: A Proof-of-Concept Study

open access: yesFrontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2022
Our brains are often under pressure to process a continuous flow of information in a short time, therefore facing a constantly increasing demand for cognitive resources.
Sara Assecondi   +5 more
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