scholarly journals An International Survey of Parental Attitudes to Technology Use by Their Autistic Children at Home

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 1517-1530 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Holmes Laurie ◽  
Petra Warreyn ◽  
Blanca Villamía Uriarte ◽  
Charlotte Boonen ◽  
Sue Fletcher-Watson
Keyword(s):  
Technology Use ◽  
Parental Attitudes ◽  
International Survey ◽  
Autistic Children ◽  
At Home

Body and Technology

Janus Head ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-38
Author(s):  
Amy E. Taylor ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Technology Use ◽  
Humanistic Psychology ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Practical Effect ◽  
At Home

Technology critique, as taken up by humanistic psychology, has remained grounded in late Heidegger. This critique has had little practical effect on the development of technology and everyday technology use. I postulate reasons for this, which include that this critique regards technology in general rather than specific technologies, overlooking the multistability of any particular technology. I then discuss a different humanistic, phenomenological ground for technology critique from the position that human beings are at home with technology, meaning that technology does not threaten disembodiment or disengagement with any other important components of humanity. I draw inspiration primarily from Don Ihde’s and Marshall McLuhan’s phenomenological, descriptive works on the ways human beings are shaped and extended by technology. I end with a discussion of embodied experience in cyberspace which serves as a model for new humanistic, phenomenological techno-critiques.

scholarly journals Usability, usefulness, and acceptance of mRehab: A novel, portable rehabilitation system using smartphone and 3D print technology (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sutanuka Bhattacharjya ◽  
Lora Anne Cavuoto ◽  
Brandon Reilly ◽  
Wenyao Xu ◽  
Heamchand Subryan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Home Exercise ◽  
3D Print ◽  
System Usability Scale ◽  
Rehabilitation System ◽  
At Home

BACKGROUND Smart technology use in rehabilitation is growing and can be used remotely to assist clients in self-monitoring their performance. With written home exercise programs being the commonly prescribed form of rehabilitation after discharge, mHealth technology coupled with task-oriented programs can enhance self-management of upper extremity training. In the current study, a functional rehabilitation system, namely mRehab, was designed which included a smartphone app and 3D printed household items such as mug, bowl, key, and doorknob embedded with a smartphone The app's user interface allowed the participant to select rehabilitation activities and receive feedback on the number of activity repetitions completed, time to complete each activity and quality of movement. OBJECTIVE To assess the usability, perceived usefulness, and acceptance of the mRehab system by individuals with stroke and identify the challenges experienced by them when using the system remotely in a home-based setting. METHODS A mixed-methods approach was used with 11 individuals with chronic stroke. Following training, individuals with stroke used the mRehab system for six weeks at home. Each participant completed surveys and engaged in a semi-structured interview. Participants’ qualitative reports regarding the usability of mRehab were integrated with their survey reports and quantitative performance data. RESULTS Ten of the eleven participants rated the mRehab system between 67.5 to 97.5 percentile on the System Usability Scale, indicating their satisfaction with the usability of the system. Participants also provided high ratings of perceived usefulness (median=6), and perceived ease of use (median=5.75), on a 7-point scale based on the Technology Acceptance Model. Common themes reported by participants showed a positive response to mRehab with some suggestions for improvements. Participants reported an interest in activities they perceived to be of ‘just right challenge’. Some participants indicated a need for customizing the feedback to be more interpretable. Overall, most participants indicated that they would like to continue using the mRehab system at home. CONCLUSIONS Assessing usability in the lived environment over a prolonged duration of time is essential to identify match between the system and users’ needs and preferences. While mRehab was well accepted, further customization is desired for a better fit with the end users. CLINICALTRIAL NCT04363944

scholarly journals Preservice teachers’ beliefs about young children’s technology use at home

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chuanmei Dong ◽  
Pekka Mertala
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Parenting Practices ◽  
Early Childhood Teachers ◽  
Technology Competence ◽  
Teachers Beliefs ◽  
Children's Home ◽  
Home Technology ◽  
At Home

Teachers’ beliefs about young children’s technology use at home are intertwined with their beliefs about parents and parenting practices. This paper reports a qualitative study of eight purposefully selected Chinese preservice early childhood teachers’ beliefs about children’s home technology use and associated representations of parents and teachers. The participants possessed inflated positive beliefs about young children’s natural technology competence but were worried that parents would expose children to contents for prolonged periods. Teachers' role was seen as responsible guides for children and educational authorities over parents. Implications for research and teacher education are discussed.

scholarly journals Understanding parents’ conflicting beliefs about children’s digital book reading

2020 ◽  
pp. 146879842093036
Author(s):  
Natalia Kucirkova ◽  
Rosie Flewitt
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Parental Attitudes ◽  
Book Reading ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Social Perceptions ◽  
Digital Reading ◽  
Digital Books ◽  
Digital Book

In light of growing evidence that many parents are deeply concerned about their young children’s increasing technology use, in this paper we report on aspects of a study funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council, where we sought to understand parents’ views on children’s digital book reading. We introduced seven families to four award-winning digital books (story apps and e-books), observed how the mothers mediated their children’s digital book reading over a period of several weeks and subsequently interviewed the mothers about their shared reading experiences with the digital books. Focusing on the interview data and drawing on the theoretical framework of socio-materiality, this paper reports on how parents’ views about digital book features were entangled with their social perceptions of the value of digital reading. Analysis of parents’ accounts show three conflicted themes of trust/mistrust, agency/dependency and nostalgia/realism in parental attitudes towards their children’s reading on screens. The paper concludes with a discussion of how these findings regarding the unresolved dichotomies inherent in parental views about their children’s digital reading are highly relevant for future research on parental mediation of their children’s learning with digital media.

ATTITUDE TOWARDS A CHILD AND THE FAMILY ROLE OF MOTHERS OF CHILDREN WITH AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDERS AND CHILDREN WITH SPEECH DISORDERS

2021 ◽  
pp. 39-45
Author(s):  
E. A. Bragina ◽  
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L. A. Belozerova ◽  
M. V. Prokofyeva ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Parental Attitudes ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Speech Disorders ◽  
Family Role ◽  
Autistic Children ◽  
Emotional Distance ◽  
Study Results ◽  
The Family ◽  
Reliable Correlation

The paper presents the results of a comparative study of the attitude towards a child and the family role of mothers of autistic children and children with speech disorders, obtained by the parental attitude (ORO) and parental attitudes (PARI) diagnostics. The study identified that mothers of children with disabilities had common features distinguishing them from mothers of neurotypical children: a more negative attitude towards the family role, the desire to limit extrafamilial influences, excessive emotional concentration on a child, emotional distance, and predominance of desire to accelerate child development over the desire to develop the activity of a child. Correlation analysis showed the reliable correlation between the indicators of ORO and PARI methods: between child acceptance and the optimal emotional contact, between the symbiosis and the attitude to the family role. Within the group of autistic children's mothers, the symbiosis indicator reliably correlated with signs of protecting a child and accelerating the development of a child. The study revealed a reliable correlation between the cooperation indicator and the optimal emotional contact only for groups of mothers of children with speech disorders and children with neurotypical development. In the group of autistic children mothers, the authors identified a negative correlation between the cooperation indicator and the indicators of emotional distance, emotional concentration, and attitude to the family role. In the same group, the tendency towards hypersocialization turned out to be the most profound correlation with the sign of mother’s dependency, the tendency to infantilize a child reliably positively correlated with the signs of will suppression, dependence on the family and reliably negatively correlated with the sign of equalizing relations. The study results became an important argument in favor of the need for specific correctional, and in many cases, psychotherapeutic help to mothers of autistic children and mothers of children with speech disorders. They confirm the facts available in the scientific literature and the new ones that revealed the specifics of their attitude towards the family role and a child.

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