Care Practices Supporting Older Adult Mobility in Institutional Long-Term Care: An Ethnographic Study. [PDF]
ABSTRACT Background Older adults living in institutional long‐term care (ILTC) generally have decreased mobility, and their mobility care is often insufficient. Residents spend much of their day being sedentary, even though sedentary behaviour and inactivity are known to have many negative effects on health and functional capacity.
Finskas J +3 more
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Preschool Children’s and Adults’ Expectations About Interpersonal Space
The regulation of interpersonal distance and social space plays a central role in social behavior, and intrusions into personal space often lead to irritations in social interactions.
Markus Paulus
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Les signes expressifs corporels de la conversation par vidéoconférence
This article examines online intercultural exchanges as a double-space framework composed of face-to-face and remote classrooms. Our research focuses on the way learners of French as a foreign language use group-based videoconferencing to coordinate ...
Christophe Bouyssi, Pascal Marquet
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Transformasi Teritori berdasarkan Kegiatan Pengunjung di Lapangan Gasibu
Personal space (proxemics) in public spaces should be considered essential to keeping the personal area separate from others. Meanwhile, privatization in public space will divide the area into small personal spaces due to the unclear form of territory in
Jasmine Chanifah U Bachtiar
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This work presents some ethnographic reflections from a research project focused on the insertion process when joining a guerrilla organization in Colombia as a ritual process.
Carlos Cárdenas +1 more
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Enhancing Description and Interpretation of Qualitative Interviews With People With Intellectual Disabilities Through Nonverbal and Paraverbal Data Collection and Analysis. [PDF]
ABSTRACT Background Qualitative research involving interviews typically includes transcribing verbal data. However, insights about meaning can also be ascertained from nonverbal and paraverbal communications. Transcribing nonverbal data allows researchers to include and analyze this additional data whilst ensuring participants' confidentiality ...
Harper L, Burton R, Walshe I, Ooms A.
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The study of ethnic attitudes during interactions with avatars in virtual environments [PDF]
Background. Modern technologies provide a wide range of opportunities for studying different types of social processes and phenomena. Currently many original social studies have been done with the use of virtual reality technologies. The effectiveness of
Galina Ya. Menshikova +2 more
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This paper presents a methodology for using geospatial tools to enact efficient tourism planning and management in streets and other public spaces in historic centres.
Patricio R. Orozco Carpio +3 more
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A probabilistic evaluation of human activity space for proactive approach behavior of a social robot
Intelligent robot companions contribute significantly to improve the living standards of people in the modern society. Therefore, humanlike decision-making skills are sought after during the design of such robots.
Sirithunge Chapa +3 more
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Differentiating video game expertise using the Model of Domain Learning
IntroductionExpertise in video games is commonly stratified using self-reported experience, which is prone to bias and measurement error. This study introduces a behavioral observation approach to provide a more objective and psychometrically sound ...
Sam A. Leif +4 more
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