The Rise and Fall of RSI: Competing Models of Causation and the Current Debate

2005 ◽  
Vol 10 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 87-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meirion Grimshaw
Keyword(s):  
Repetitive Strain Injury ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Current Thinking ◽  
Competing Models ◽  
Repetitive Strain

The existence of repetitive strain injury (RSI) as a diagnosis has been historically controversial. Its nature has been explained through competing models of causation generated by different professions. By exploring medical, ergonomic, psycho-social and legal explanations, this paper seeks to inform hand therapists on the basic aspects of this debate and the current thinking on RSI.

scholarly journals Negative UX-Based Approach for Deriving Sustainability Requirements

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nelly Condori-Fernandez ◽  
Marcela Quispe-Cruz ◽  
Alejandro Catala ◽  
Joao Araujo ◽  
Patricia Lago
Keyword(s):  
System Design ◽  
User Experience ◽  
User Study ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Repetitive Strain Injury ◽  
Economic Sustainability ◽  
Working Environments ◽  
Repetitive Strain

In this chapter, a Negative User Experience (NUX)-based method for deriving sustainability requirements of persuasive software systems is proposed. The method relies on the analysis of NUX assessment, and the exploitation of relationships between the SQ model and the PSD model, which are well-known models for sustainability-quality in software systems and persuasive system design respectively. To illustrate the method, a user study has been conducted involving people in their real working environments while using specific software intended to change their behavior for preventing or reducing repetitive strain injury (RSI). The method allowed us to discover thirteen requirements that contribute to social, technical and economic sustainability dimensions.

scholarly journals Looking back to the future: The current relevance of Maria Montessori’s ideas about the spiritual well-being of young children

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginia Anne Tregenza
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Spiritual Needs ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Spiritual Wellbeing ◽  
Maria Montessori ◽  
Current Thinking ◽  
Spiritual Well Being ◽  
Individual Consciousness ◽  
Educational Thinking

Maria Montessori (1870-1952) was an Italian educator whose ideas and principles have validity in informing, understanding and responding to the challenges faced by contemporary educators . Many of her foundational principles are at the forefront of current educational thinking but are unacknowledged or unknown in mainstream education. It is argued that her ideas and principles about the spiritual wellbeing of young children have validity in the current debate. Montessori saw spirituality as innate in young children, the primary force driving their development and central to their capacity for joyful and deep engagement with their environment. She saw children’s capacity and ability to concentrate deeply as a spiritual pathway to a new level of individual consciousness and connection to the environment. These principles can inform our current thinking, understanding and response to young children’s spirituality. The conditions to bring about, support and protect what Montessori calls ‘concentration’ should be considered in pedagogical responses to the spiritual needs of young children

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