scholarly journals Children’s digitally mediated perezhivanie/enchantment in backyard excursions to “nature”

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Renshaw ◽  
Kirsty Jackson ◽  
Harriet Mortlock ◽  
Ron Tooth
Keyword(s):  
Sociocultural Theory ◽  
Ethic Of Care ◽  
Digital Device ◽  
Unit Of Analysis ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
Children’S Accounts

We examine children’s digitally mediated excursions to “nature” in their backyards when Covid-19 prevented environmental excursions. The data consists of young children’s accounts of their backyard excursions recorded on digital devices and posted online to Seesaw. We use sociocultural theory to analyse the co-agency of child and the digital device, the unit of analysis being “a child-using-a-digital-device”. To theorise experience, we deploy Vygotsky’s concept of perezhivanie and Bennett’s notion of enchantment. The analysis of posts to Seesaw revealed children’s experience of vivid, emotionally engaging moments with “nature”, and evidence of an ethic of care. We conclude that emotionally engaging pedagogies based on perezhivanie/enchantment are important in addressing current environmental crises.

Effect of Technostress on academic productivity- E-engagement through persuasive communication

2022 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Persuasive Communication ◽  
Academic Productivity ◽  
Digital Device ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
Team Projects ◽  
Device Use ◽  
Management Students

The focus of most of the existing studies on technostress is with regard to working professionals. In spite of the explosion of digital device use in education, not many studies have identified its effects on students. This study examines the presence of technostress among management students aged 22-29 years. Using a sample of 300+ students of a management college of India, this study validates the technostress instrument. With the pandemic, education has seen a paradigm shift. Sessions including classes, interactions, discussions, team projects, assignments, examinations, have gone online and this has ushered the compulsion of spending more time with technology and digital devices (laptops, mobile phones, desktop etc). It examines the effect of technostress on academic productivity of students. The study further explores the students’ expectations from the college to control their technostress, thereby indicating the need of enhancing e-engagement through persuasive communication.

scholarly journals Temporal digital control: Theorizing the use of digital technologies to provide a temporal autonomous space

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 794-812
Author(s):  
Nicola F Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Digital Control ◽  
Screen Time ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Temporal Control ◽  
Digital Device ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
Smartphone Use

Screen time once referred to television. Nowadays, it includes various screen sizes that are internet-enabled devices, and the pervasive smartphone. Regardless of what kind of screen is used, screen time comprises much of life itself. Being online and offline is now fairly blurred because of the ubiquitousness of technologies, Wi-Fi and screens. This paper puts forth the notion of ‘temporal digital control’ to explain the choice of when and why smartphones and other portable digital devices are used in today’s cultural milieu, and it theorizes the ‘why’ of contemporary smartphone use is so prominent suggesting it enables temporal digital control in an autonomous space. Coupled with the engrossment of such use, the article elaborates how gazing at a digital device comprises a temporal connection, alongside a disconnection from real life, and a possible inauthenticity that could affect well-being. Recently published literature on ‘waiting’ is included to help theorize why actors choose to use digital technologies while waiting. Being preoccupied, or busy, or doing something with one’s smartphone while waiting creates a sense of alleged status, importance or connection in the form of digital temporal control. An array of vignettes is provided to demonstrate agentic disengagement with the present in a preference for moving into a temporal autonomous space of ‘perceived’ digital control. When gazing at and using a digital device, users are arguably disengaging with the temporal present, disconnecting with others who may be beside them, in preference to the creation of temporal (and digital) autonomous spaces. Regardless of what the user is doing on their smartphone or device, the use of technologies can provide a temporal autonomous space of digital control.

scholarly journals Factors of the Readiness for Information Exchange in Pre-School Education Establishments

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 166
Author(s):  
Valentina Dolgova ◽  
Yulia Batenova ◽  
Irina Emelyanova ◽  
Irina Ivanova ◽  
Lyudmila Pikuleva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Exchange ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
Further Training ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Digital Device ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
Interactive Environment

The development of an interactive environment that allows for a significant enhancement in interaction opportunities with information resources for a child is one of the primary tasks of the pre-school educational process organisation today. This study involved 50 establishments for children in Chelyabinsk (N = 1280: 230 children, 350 teachers, 700 parents). We used two techniques to collect data: a questionnaire for teachers on the use of Information Exchange in the educational process, their attitude towards ICTs, and the available resources (resources included technological aspects, such as infrastructure, equipment, and software, as well as educational aspects, such as further training and the availability of a qualified methodologist); and a conversation with children on their experience in using and operating digital devices for various tasks. The questions were divided into four groups that provided us with data on the following topics: the degree of inclusion of parents in the interaction (a triad of a child, a digital device, and a parent), the awareness of the child of the capacity and resources of ICTs, motivation and interests that can be realized through digital technologies, and self-reflection as the capacity of the child to predict and analyse their activities. The Hypothesis that the level of readiness for information exchange in subjects of the educational process can be increased through further training of pre-school teachers and the establishment of a single information space in a kindergarten group has been proven right. The findings the study proved such an influence and proposed directions for further studying.

scholarly journals Testing digital instruments and power systems devices

2020 ◽  
Vol 216 ◽  
pp. 01063
Author(s):  
Pavel Pavlov ◽  
Vladimir Fandeev ◽  
Valery Butakov ◽  
Dilyara Baymeeva ◽  
Venera Safiullina
Keyword(s):  
Power Systems ◽  
Reference Point ◽  
Test Methods ◽  
The Other ◽  
Electric Signal ◽  
State Monitoring ◽  
Digital Device ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
Healthy State ◽  
And Control

Discussed here is a technique for testing digital devices based on the calculation and control of two or more characteristics of a binary electric signal at a reference point. Signals coming from a healthy and failed digital device that are indistinguishable by the value of one of the characteristics may differ in value of the other characteristic. The combination of test methods can significantly reduce the potential of not detecting the failure of digital device. The technique is aimed at increasing the information content of the healthy state monitoring results and the possibility of localizing failures in digital instruments and devices of power systems.

scholarly journals Cognitive Function and Digital Device Use in Older Adults Attending a Memory Clinic

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 233372141984488 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ya-Huei Wu ◽  
Manon Lewis ◽  
Anne-Sophie Rigaud
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Cognitive Function ◽  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Memory Clinic ◽  
Digital Device ◽  
Significant Group ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
Device Use ◽  
Touchscreen Device

This study investigated cognitive function in relation to the use of a computer and a touchscreen device among older adults attending a memory clinic. The entire sample ( n = 323) was categorized into four profiles, according to the frequency of digital device use (either daily or non-daily usage). Results showed that on a daily basis, 26% of the sample used both a computer and a touchscreen device, 26.9% used only a computer, 7.1% used only a touchscreen device, and 39.9% used neither type of digital device. There were significant group differences on age, education, and clinical diagnosis ( p < .001). Non-daily users of digital devices had significantly lower performance, compared with daily users of both types of digital device, on measures of global cognitive function, processing speed, short-term memory, and several components of executive function ( p < .001). Falling behind with regard to the use of digital devices might reflect underlying poor cognitive capacities.

FEATURES OF THE SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE OF THE DIGITAL DEVICE DIAGNOSTICS SYSTEM

2021 ◽  
pp. 55-59
Author(s):  
М.М. Зозуля ◽  
О.Я. Кравец
Keyword(s):  
Software Architecture ◽  
Diagnostic System ◽  
Digital Device ◽  
Software Complex ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
Diagnostics System

В статье рассматриваются особенности архитектуры системы диагностики цифровых устройств на базе микроконтроллеров на примере разработанного аппаратно-программного комплекса. The article discusses the features of the architecture of the diagnostic system of digital devices based on microcontrollers on the example of the developed hardware and software complex.

Using Portable-Profile to Support Context-Aware Services in the UPnP Networks

2013 ◽  
Vol 684 ◽  
pp. 513-517
Author(s):  
Jyh Horng Lin ◽  
Chyi Ren Dow ◽  
Chia Che Lin
Keyword(s):  
Recommendation System ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Proxy Server ◽  
Plug And Play ◽  
Digital Device ◽  
Resource Access ◽  
Digital Home ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
Identification Time ◽  
Universal Plug And Play

The Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) network provides features for using digital devices easily without configuration. But, there are some issues such as cross network segment and security in the UPnP networks. To solve the problem, many works use an additional proxy server and a recommendation system to provide suitable services. However, the approach requires additional resources and cost and it is difficult to deploy in the digital home. In this work, we propose a new concept which the profile was portable and within user’s personal digital device. The digital device can use the profile and information such as identification, time, location, etc. to find suitable devices and simplify the operation for resource access and increase privacy. Finally, we implement the portable-profile on android phone to achieve the concept.

scholarly journals Characteristics of digital device users of adolescents and their degree of awareness: خصائص مُستخدمي الأجهزة الرقمية من المراهقين ودرجة وعيهم بها

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (23) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abeer Jamil Al-Shammari
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Smart Phone ◽  
School Students ◽  
Digital Device ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
Personal Devices ◽  
Purposive Sample ◽  
Descriptive Method

The aim of this article is to know some characteristics of adolescents using digital devices and their awareness of them using، by using descriptive method and questionnaire on a purposive sample consisting of 699 from middle school students. The results showed that 70.8% of the students age 14-15 are the most popular users of digital devices and 52.4% use their personal devices three or more hours per day، and that 55.22% of the second of middle school students are the average most used for digital devices and 72.5% of students use the smart phone and 60.5% of students their parents are separate. In terms of the sample's awareness of the use of these devices، the results showed that the highest awareness of the use of digital devices is the students of third year of middle school with an (M 85.76 & SD 17.96) especially I-PAD Tablet. The highest ages 14-15 were aware of digital devices with an (M 86.66 & SD 19.71) using their personal devices for an hour only a day. The parents who refer to "parents living in the same house" were the highest with an (M87.68 & 19.57) The results also showed that females students more aware of the use of digital devices with an (89.43 SD 18.89) and this article concluded to some recommendations.

scholarly journals ASMD-FSMD Technique for Designing Digital Devices on FPGA

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valery Salauyou
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Approach ◽  
New Technique ◽  
Digital Device ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
Finite State ◽  
Field Programmable ◽  
A New Technique ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The One

Recently, there has been, on the one hand, an increase in the complexity of digital device designs and, on the other hand, an increase in the requirements for the development time and the reliability of the designs. One of the directions of solving this problem is developing new techniques for designing digital devices.This paper proposes a new technique for designing digital devices based on finite state machines with datapath (FSMD), when the functioning of the device is described in the form of an algorithm state machine with datapath (ASMD) charts. The new technique is called ASMD-FSMD. Different digital device design techniques are compared to each other using design examples of a synchronous multiplier on field programmable gate array (FPGA). The efficiency of the ASMD-FSMD technique compared to the traditional approach in terms of area and performance was investigated. The ASMD-FSMD technique, compared to the traditional one, reduces the area from 28.6% to 39.7% and increases the speed for some designs to 17.6%. In addition, using the ASMD-FSMD technique significantly reduces design time and increases design reliability. In conclusion, recommendations for using the ASMD-FSMD technique are made.

ASSESSMENT OF PREVALENCE OF DIGITAL EYE STRAIN AMONG DIGITAL SCREEN USERS IN SETTING OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC.

2021 ◽  
pp. 4-6
Author(s):  
Nidhi Nidhi ◽  
Ashish Kumar Sharma ◽  
Priya Priya ◽  
Prakash Kumar ◽  
Shambhu Suman
Keyword(s):  
Dry Eye ◽  
Sleep Disturbances ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Digital Device ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
Schirmer’S Test ◽  
Validated Questionnaire ◽  
Ocular Surface Health ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Total Usage

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: To assess the impact of the increased digital device usage and its ocular surface health implications along with circadian rhythm abnormalities related to digital eye strain during COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: A validated questionnaire was provided to all the participants and various symptoms people experienced were analyzed. Dry eye tests were performed in all the study subjects. RESULTS: A total of 256 participants were included of which 88.3% of subjects reported an increase in their screen time since the onset of pandemic. The average increase in digital device usage was calculated at about 4.4 ± 1.9 h per day. The total usage per day was found to be7.85 ± 3.63 hours. Sleep disturbances have been reported by 59.8% of participants. Typically, 93% of respondents had experienced at least one symptom related to digital device usage, and 66.4% said that the frequency and intensity of these symptoms increased since the pandemic started. Dry eye diagnosed clinically by Schirmer's test was present in 18.8 % of participants. CONCLUSION: The study highlights the increase in usage of digital devices after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic leading to increase in digital eye strain across all age groups.

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