From Contact to Enact: Reducing Prejudice Toward Physical Disability Using Engagement Strategies

The contact hypothesis has dominated work on prejudice reduction and is often described as one of the most successful theories within social psychology. The hypothesis has nevertheless been criticized for not being applicable in real life situations due to unobtainable conditions for direct contact. Several indirect contact suggestions have been developed to solve this “application challenge.” Here, we suggest a hybrid strategy of both direct and indirect contact. Based on the second-person method developed in social psychology and cognition, we suggest working with an engagement strategy as a hybrid hypothesis. We expand on this suggestion through an engagement-based intervention, where we implement the strategy in a theater performance and investigate the effects on prejudicial attitudes toward people with physical disabilities. Based on the results we reformulate our initial engagement strategy into the Enact (Engagement, Nuancing, and Attitude formation) hypothesis. To deal with the application challenge, this hybrid hypothesis posits two necessary conditions for prejudice reduction. Interventions should: (1) work with engagement to reduce prejudice, and (2) focus on the second-order level of attitudes formation. Here the aim of the prejudice reduction is not attitude correction, but instead the nuancing of attitudes.

Designing a Mouse for Disabilities Using the MPU-6050 Sensor with the Kalman Filter Method as a Noise Reducer

Problems that are often faced by people with physical disabilities are those who have limited hands, one of which is when they will use the computer. His inability to grip and use the mouse is often a barrier in using the computer. The purpose of the design of the tool is to provide facilities for people with disabilities to be able to use a mouse that will be moved based on head movements without noise interference caused by the MPU-6050 sensor. The results of the tests carried out show that designing a mouse with the MPU-6050 sensor has been successfully carried out, the MPU-6050 sensor by implementing a kalman filter as a noise reducer on the X axis has an accuracy value with an average error percentage of 0.09% and at Y angle is 0.12%. Data transmission from the mouse to the computer is done wirelessly using bluetooth HC-05 can receive data well as far as 12.5 meters with an error percentage of 0%. The button on the mouse that functions to perform the left click function when the button is bitten 1x, right click when the button is bitten 2x and click and hold to do a left click 2x or double click can run according to the command, has a 100% success rate.

Authors' Responses to Peer Review of “Telerehabilitation for People With Physical Disabilities and Movement Impairment: A Survey of United Kingdom Practitioners” (Preprint)

UNSTRUCTURED These are authors' responses to peer review of ms#30516.

Peer Review of “Telerehabilitation for People With Physical Disabilities and Movement Impairment: A Survey of United Kingdom Practitioners” (Preprint)

UNSTRUCTURED This is peer review of ms#30516.

Peer Review of “Telerehabilitation for People With Physical Disabilities and Movement Impairment: A Survey of United Kingdom Practitioners” (Preprint)

UNSTRUCTURED Peer review of ms#30516.