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Remote health monitoring for elderly through interactive television [PDF]

open access: yesBioMedical Engineering OnLine, 2012
Background Providing remote health monitoring to specific groups of patients represents an issue of great relevance for the national health systems, because of the costs related to moving health operators, the time spent to reach remote sites, and the ...
Spinsante Susanna, Gambi Ennio
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Netflix – The Curation of Taste and the Business of Diversification

open access: yesStudia Humanistyczne AGH, 2021
Netflix is considered as a global business invested in strategies of diversification, localisation and personalisation in light of several discourses about the streaming service.
Andrew Higson
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The Acoustic Environment of York Minster’s Chapter House

open access: yesAcoustics, 2020
York Minster is the largest medieval Gothic cathedral in Northern Europe, renowned for its magnificent architecture and its stained glass windows. Both acoustic measurements and simulation techniques have been used to analyse the acoustic environment of ...
Lidia Álvarez-Morales   +2 more
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Novel television-based cognitive training improves working memory and executive function. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2014
The main study objective was to investigate the effect of interactive television-based cognitive training on cognitive performance of 119 healthy older adults, aged 60-87 years.
Evelyn Shatil   +3 more
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The interactive nature of reality television

open access: yesCommunicare, 2022
This article explores the motivating factors for viewer participation in the reality television programme, Project Fame. It looks at the interactive component of reality television, arguing that viewers are active in their media consumption.
Heidi Penzhorn, Magriet Pitout
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Daily television exposure, parent conversation during shared television viewing and socioeconomic status: Associations with curiosity at kindergarten

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2021
Objective To examine the main and interactive effects of the amount of daily television exposure and frequency of parent conversation during shared television viewing on parent ratings of curiosity at kindergarten, and to test for moderation by ...
Prachi E. Shah   +7 more
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‘I blamed this all on moving to Texas’: Fostering Sense of Place through Locative Literature among US Latina Girls

open access: yesMatLit, 2018
This study explores how US Latina girls, in Central Texas, may develop a stronger sense of place and belonging through the grasping and crafting of locative literature.
Claudia Cristina da Silva   +2 more
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Bees, Extinction and Ambient Soundscapes: An Exploratory Environmental Communication Workshop

open access: yesHumanities, 2019
As a response to the challenges that visual communication, popularly used in environmental communications, poses for more embodied engagements with climate change, this article focuses upon the neglected role of sound within environmental and climate ...
Rosamund Portus, Claire McGinn
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A Lightweight, User-controlled System For The Home [PDF]

open access: yesHuman Technology, 2006
This paper explores how we designed, with input from some elderly persons, a multi-agent user-controlled network for the home. The system was designed to support the elderly in living longer at home with minimal support. We describe how our work attempts
Lynne Baillie, Raimund Schatz
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