A Smart Chair Alert System for Social Distance Implementation for COVID-19

Considering the current health situation and the need for population health safety, this work presents the development of a prototype of an intelligent face mask for facial protection that contributes to the fight against the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the education and health sector; so it is visualized as an important opportunity for the development of technological tools that allow to contribute to solve a problem and generate a social impact. Due to the problems detected, the following actions are carried out for the implementation of a prototype capable of constantly monitoring body temperature and recommended social distance using an alert system, which is developed in three different stages where design and printing, electronics, programming and assembly are considered. During the research process it is determined that such devices will be required and present a promising future in this area of application, although it is known that there are alternatives but that require a greater process before their implementation.

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Seeing Similarity or Distance?

Social Psychology ◽

10.1027/1864-9335/a000168 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 45 (2) ◽

pp. 127-134 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Leigh Wilton ◽

Diana T. Sanchez ◽

Lisa Giamo

Keyword(s):

Social Distance ◽

Mixed Race ◽

Racial Groups ◽

Perceived Similarity ◽

The Social ◽

Intergroup Perception ◽

Intergroup Perceptions ◽

Racially Ambiguous ◽

Ambiguous Faces

Biracial individuals threaten the distinctiveness of racial groups because they have mixed-race ancestry, but recent findings suggest that exposure to biracial-labeled, racially ambiguous faces may positively influence intergroup perception by reducing essentialist thinking among Whites ( Young, Sanchez, & Wilton, 2013 ). However, biracial exposure may not lead to positive intergroup perceptions for Whites who are highly racially identified and thus motivated to preserve the social distance between racial groups. We exposed Whites to racially ambiguous Asian/White biracial faces and measured the perceived similarity between Asians and Whites. We found that exposure to racially ambiguous, biracial-labeled targets may improve perceptions of intergroup similarity, but only for Whites who are less racially identified. Results are discussed in terms of motivated intergroup perception.

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Replication of Experiments Evaluating Impact of Psychological Distance on Moral Judgment

Social Psychology ◽

10.1027/1864-9335/a000188 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 45 (3) ◽

pp. 223-231 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Iris L. Žeželj ◽

Biljana R. Jokić

Keyword(s):

Moral Judgment ◽

Social Distance ◽

Psychological Distance ◽

Temporal Distance ◽

Construal Level ◽

Systematic Effect ◽

Replication Studies ◽

Opposite Conclusion ◽

Moral Transgressions ◽

Replication Of Experiments

Eyal, Liberman, and Trope (2008) established that people judged moral transgressions more harshly and virtuous acts more positively when the acts were psychologically distant than close. In a series of conceptual and direct replications, Gong and Medin (2012) came to the opposite conclusion. Attempting to resolve these inconsistencies, we conducted four high-powered replication studies in which we varied temporal distance (Studies 1 and 3), social distance (Study 2) or construal level (Study 4), and registered their impact on moral judgment. We found no systematic effect of temporal distance, the effect of social distance consistent with Eyal et al., and the reversed effect of direct construal level manipulation, consistent with Gong and Medin. Possible explanations for the incompatible results are discussed.

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