An Empirical Study of Gamification Frameworks

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Buckley ◽  
Seamus Noonan ◽  
Conor Geary ◽  
Thomas Mackessy ◽  
Eoghan Nagle
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Individual Behaviour ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Contextual Sensitivity ◽  
Personal Productivity ◽  
Novel Concept ◽  
The Individual

Gamification is a relatively novel concept which is attracting interest from academics and practitioners as a method of mediating individual behaviour. It is increasingly being used in a wide range of social and business contexts across a range of diverse activities such as education, health care and personal productivity. In this article, the components used to implement gamification are catalogued. Using a standardised rubric, a sample of gamified activities is studied to measure the prevalence of the various components used to implement gamification. This research provides an empirically validated catalogue of specific components used to implement gamification, which can serve to guide the work of academics and practitioners. It demonstrates variance in the use of the different types of component, indicating that the utility of gamification components may differ. Finally, by contrasting the utilization of components in the individual and group contexts, this research identifies the contextual sensitivity of gamification.

scholarly journals Application of Visagism Concept to Assess the Co-Relation between the Temperament and Smile Esthetics: A Clinical Study

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Poorvi Jain ◽  
Surekha Godbole ◽  
Seema Sathe Kambala ◽  
Chetan Mahatme
Keyword(s):  
Digital Camera ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Maximum Score ◽  
Validated Questionnaire ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Novel Concept ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Smile Esthetics

Background: Ability of a person to express a wide range of emotions with the movement of teeth and lips is called as a smile. Dentogenic concept considers gender, personality, age in harmonizing shapes of teeth with the face. Personality is unique for an individual. Unveiling personality traits, desires of the individual, translating them into natural tooth shapes to maintain the psychodentofacial harmony poses a major challenge to the clinician in designing a smile. Visagism is a novel concept that helps the dentists in providing restorations that involve esthetics psychological and social features of the created image, which influences the individual’s emotions. It involves the customization of an image. Aim and Objectives: To assess the co-relation between the smile esthetics and mental temperaments or personalities through the application of the concept of visagism. Methodology: A Digital camera (DSLR) for capturing the photographs and smile designing software will be used. Each subject will be instructed to occlude the teeth while capturing photographs. A validated questionnaire study will be conducted that will help to discover temperament of the subject. The answers will be evaluated and maximum score of the responses out of the list will be dominant temperament in that individual. Expected Outcome: Co-relation between this study might help clinicians to accurately assess the correlation between the temperament and the smile esthetics and eventually develop proper customisation of a smile with respect to the personality of the patient. Conclusion: If computer-assisted smile design and application of visagism concept would be accurate and reproducible, this might help and improve the planning of smile designing, the oral rehabilitations.

scholarly journals Formation of the Creative Imagination of Children and Adolescents by the Means of Artistic Pedagogy

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-147
Author(s):  
Alexey P. Efremenko ◽  
◽  
Tatyana A. Lomakina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Psychological Characteristics ◽  
Creative Imagination ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Younger Generation ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Art Pedagogy

The article deals with the main pedagogical conditions and the essence of the creative imagination of children in the artistic and pedagogical process. The author analyzes the pedagogical possibilities of involving children and adolescents in various forms of activation of this activity; the characteristics of different types of creative imagination are given, taking into account the individual psychological characteristics of children. The corresponding method of studying the peculiarities of imagination and its pedagogical potential in the process of introducing the younger generation to the achievements of literature and art is proposed. Further prospects for the development of creative imagination with the use of promising strategies and technologies of art pedagogy are outlined. The article may be of interest to a wide range of specialists in the field of art pedagogy.

The Health System’s Role in Community Health Improvement: The Work of Three Insurance Providers

2019 ◽  
pp. 283-290
Author(s):  
Brian C. Castrucci ◽  
Elizabeth Corcoran ◽  
Loel S. Solomon ◽  
Caraline Coats ◽  
Alyse B. Sabina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Health Improvement ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Kaiser Permanente ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
American Health Care ◽  
Effective Community ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Community Health Improvement

This chapter argues that to improve the health of populations and reduce health care costs, American health care needs to transform beyond a focus on the individual patient and recognize that the health of the patient and the health of the community are indelibly linked. This change will not come easily, the chapter states. It will take leadership like that demonstrated by the three insurers highlighted in this chapter: Kaiser Permanente, Humana Inc., and the Aetna Foundation. Each is engaging in interventions targeted in the communities they serve, beyond their specific members. These healthcare leaders are moving beyond the clinic to tap into a wide range of skills, relationships, resources, and even policy, which results in more robust and effective community health improvement.

scholarly journals Psychological Analysis of Occupational Conditions in Extreme Environments and the Structure of Non-Standard Situations

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 132-148
Author(s):  
Oksana KHURTENKO ◽  
◽  
Kseniia BEREZIAK ◽  
Roman KHAVULA ◽  
Oksana VDOVICHENKO ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Behaviour Problem ◽  
Psychological Analysis ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Professional Coaching ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Human Psyche ◽  
The Individual

Professional coaching career is associated with a wide range of issues and problems which need to be solved and are directly or indirectly determined by creative activity. Therefore, an appropriate training process of students, in particular prospective coaches, is an essential scientific and practical problem. The article presents a thorough psychological analysis of the structure of decision-making in extreme situations and identifies different types of non-standard situations in a coaching job. Also, it clarifies such concepts as “situation”, “non-standard situation” and “extreme situation” in the activity of the individual. It describes different types of non-standard situations which can be manifested in professional coaching and their impact on the human psyche. It analyzes extreme conditions in the activities of athletes and coaches and the role of various mental functions and personality traits in problem-solving. Importantly, the article emphasizes the role of the coach’s reflection and self-regulation in solving non-standard tasks under non-standard conditions. It indicates that two theoretical views on the nature of the human psyche and thinking correspond to two approaches to studying this particular problem. According to the first one, that is an adaptive approach, creative thinking as a form of behaviour is the result of learning, and only some individuals have creative ability. To teach creativity, however, one needs to include the elements of creative behaviour (problem-solving) and heuristics in the educational material. Another approach assumes that thinking is a productive process emerging as a result of a certain problematic situation. Prerequisites for the creative process are cognitive abilities and research activities of the individual.

scholarly journals Perception of the Image of Their Body by Young Girls with Different Types of Eating Behavior

2020 ◽  
pp. 206-214
Author(s):  
Tetiana Pashko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Eating Behavior ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
Young Girls ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Behavior Types ◽  
The Relationship

The article presents the results of theoretical and empirical study of the peculiarities of the perceptions of the image of their own body by young girls with different types of eating behavior. A meaningful analysis of the concept of "body image", "body diagram", identified factors that determine the formation of these phenomena of human corporeality. The concepts of eating behavior, types of eating behavior and the relationship between the phenomena of corporeality and eating behavior of the individual are defined. The age-related, personal and social determinants of the formation of eating behavior and the factors of its disorders are described. The results of an empirical study of the peculiarities of the perception of own body image in girls with different types of eating behavior and the level of alexethymia are presented.

Emerging Cyber-Physical Systems : An Overview

2018 ◽  
pp. 306-316
Author(s):  
Okolie S.O. ◽  
Kuyoro S.O. ◽  
Ohwo O. B
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Economic Benefit ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Cyber Physical Systems ◽  
Cyber Physical System ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Strategic Research ◽  
Physical Systems ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Wide Range

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) will revolutionize how humans relate with the physical world around us. Many grand challenges await the economically vital domains of transportation, health-care, manufacturing, agriculture, energy, defence, aerospace and buildings. Exploration of these potentialities around space and time would create applications which would affect societal and economic benefit. This paper looks into the concept of emerging Cyber-Physical system, applications and security issues in sustaining development in various economic sectors; outlining a set of strategic Research and Development opportunities that should be accosted, so as to allow upgraded CPS to attain their potential and provide a wide range of societal advantages in the future.

The call to Hawaii: Holistic practitioners’ perspectives of their communicative practices of healing

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Geist-Martin ◽  
Catherine Becker ◽  
Summer Carnett ◽  
Katherine Slauta
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Healing Process ◽  
Holistic Health ◽  
Communicative Practices ◽  
Ethnographic Interviews ◽  
Health Care Practices ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Care Practices ◽  
Holistic Health Care ◽  
Mutual Action

The big island of Hawaii has been named the healing island – a place with varied interpretations of healing, health, and a wide range of holistic health care practices. This research explores the perspectives of holistic providers about the communicative practices they believe are central to their interactions with patients. Intensive ethnographic interviews with 20 individuals revealed that they perceive their communication with clients as centered on four practices, specifically: (a) reciprocity – a mutual action or exchange in which both the practitioner and patient are equal partners in the healing process; (b) responsibility – the idea that, ultimately, people must heal themselves; (c) forgiveness – the notion that healing cannot progress if a person holds the burden of anger and pain; and (d) balance – the idea that it is possible to bring like and unlike things together in unity and harmony. The narratives revealed providers’ ontological assumptions about mind-body systems and the rationalities they seek to resist in their conversations with patients.

Navigating the health care system: perceptions of patients with chronic pain

2009 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 162-168
Author(s):  
AL Dewar ◽  
K Gregg ◽  
MI White ◽  
J Lander
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Primary Care Physicians ◽  
Treatment Compliance ◽  
Care Utilization ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Care System

A new framework is needed for patients with chronic pain and their primary care physicians that acknowledges the individual’s experiences and provides evidence-informed education and better linkages to community-based resources. This study describes the experience of 19 chronic-pain sufferers who seek relief via the health care system. Their experiences were recorded through in-depth semistructured interviews and analyzed through qualitative methods. The participants reported early optimism, then disillusionment, and finally acceptance of living with chronic pain. Both individuals with chronic pain and their health care professionals need evidence-informed resources and information on best practices to assist them to manage pain. Empathetic communication between health care professionals and individuals with chronic pain is crucial because insensitive communication negatively affects the individual, reduces treatment compliance and increases health care utilization.

Optimization of the care model for elderly in Poland

Physiotherapy ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Felicja Lwow ◽  
Małgorzata Korzeniowska ◽  
Joanna Dadacz ◽  
Ewa Hladik ◽  
Agata Łukojko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Chronic Conditions ◽  
Institutional Care ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Social Aspect ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Optimal Health ◽  
Health Care Models ◽  
The Individual

AbstractThe demographic situation of Poland as well as other developed countries shows a growing number of people at retirement age. According to the data from GUS (Central Statistical Office), their number reached 6.5 mln in Poland in 2011, and the prognosis for shows 8,3 mln by the year 2035. The consequence of this fact is a necessity of including the specificity of this age group in the functioning of Polish health care as well as in preventive medicine and health promotion. Unifying the health needs of this age group would be disadvantageous due to the diversification of physical efficiency level in the psychosomatic and social aspect. Nevertheless, the key problem is to distinguish the optimal health care models which include not only chronic conditions and dysfunctions but also the quality of life and socially independent life style that guarantee the lack of isolation and social exclusion. Distinguishing the four action models, namely people considered as healthy by the system, autonomously functioning people with chronic conditions, and people who need other people or institutional care to function in a society, seems to cover the individual needs of this group. Concluding, the National Health Care needs to work out some proceeding algorithms for these models. The optimal program adjustment for the needs of the target group would most certainly improve the effectiveness of the Health Care.

THE VALUE OF LOVE IN THE SYSTEM OF FORMATION OF THE PROFESSIONAL MATURITY OF THE EDUCATOR

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (10(79)) ◽  
pp. 12-18
Author(s):  
G. Bubyreva
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
The State ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right

The existing legislation determines the education as "an integral and focused process of teaching and upbringing, which represents a socially important value and shall be implemented so as to meet the interests of the individual, the family, the society and the state". However, even in this part, the meaning of the notion ‘socially significant benefit is not specified and allows for a wide range of interpretation [2]. Yet the more inconcrete is the answer to the question – "who and how should determine the interests of the individual, the family and even the state?" The national doctrine of education in the Russian Federation, which determined the goals of teaching and upbringing, the ways to attain them by means of the state policy regulating the field of education, the target achievements of the development of the educational system for the period up to 2025, approved by the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of October 4, 2000 #751, was abrogated by the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of March 29, 2014 #245 [7]. The new doctrine has not been developed so far. The RAE Academician A.B. Khutorsky believes that the absence of the national doctrine of education presents a threat to national security and a violation of the right of citizens to quality education. Accordingly, the teacher has to solve the problem of achieving the harmony of interests of the individual, the family, the society and the government on their own, which, however, judging by the officially published results, is the task that exceeds the abilities of the participants of the educational process.  The particular concern about the results of the patriotic upbringing served as a basis for the legislative initiative of the RF President V. V. Putin, who introduced the project of an amendment to the Law of RF "About Education of the Russian Federation" to the State Duma in 2020, regarding the quality of patriotic upbringing [3]. Patriotism, considered by the President of RF V. V. Putin as the only possible idea to unite the nation is "THE FEELING OF LOVE OF THE MOTHERLAND" and the readiness for every sacrifice and heroic deed for the sake of the interests of your Motherland. However, the practicing educators experience shortfalls in efficient methodologies of patriotic upbringing, which should let them bring up citizens, loving their Motherland more than themselves. The article is dedicated to solution to this problem based on the Value-sense paradigm of upbringing educational dynasty of the Kurbatovs [15].

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