My experiencewithNon-linearMultimediaEducation, including national and international universities ans training centers (See the list below) will resultin the very nearfuture inmy nextinvestigation, probablya commercial bookand who knowsapost-doctoralbut for now, I will publishdata in AHFE 2015http://www.ahfe2015.org/ in 3rd Internacional Conference on Ergonomics In Design (Areas of interest — Educational Design).
This is my YouTube public playlist with a collection of what I consider important for understanding the interaction design issues. You can find interest information for you cultural background about the digital era, from 1920 until now. The criteria of my choose, is related with the discipline that I teach, Interaction Design. Multimedia Design https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFtnFvkshA0_t_aN4GH6fS28c9Sdj8e9P
"The competition is open to anyone in Europe aged 18 or above opening on the 1 September 2014 and closing on the 6 October 2014. Judges include senior Facebook executives and finals will be at Facebook’s new London HQ." For more information https://worthcapitallondon.com/competitions/the-big-app/
For me, this is an area of interest - Integrated in technology, user experience and interaction design. Obviously, writing as Crohn's Disease patient since 2002, my ph.d and research work are focus on innovation solutions to improve my and your health.
CUE - Tracking Your Health Information
We can call to these Cue makers a “deep health tracker". Actually it is a tracking of users health on a molecular level (It is similar to the diabetes measuring), rather than more remotely monitoring signals like blood pressure or heart rate.
(Image source: CUE)
The idea for this system came after the founders understand that to much people were flooding the healthcare system wanting to know only whether they had a flu or not, which I considered as an important situation but not an emergency. “All these people were seeking this one piece of information, and we thought that there had to be a much simpler way for people to find out the information without having to stand in a huge emergency room line or wait for a doctor’s appointment”.
In partnership with INESC-ID (Universidade Técnica de Lisboa) and LaSIGE (Departamento de Informática da Universidade de Lisboa), seven researchers were involved with the development of a system that combines chord input with a series of vibrations that
notify a blind user of what the system is registering. The HoliBraille case can be
attached to a Samsung Android phone and feeds information to the user in the
form of vibrations felt through the fingers before the chord is committed and an
error has been made, through an Arduino. To talk to the phone case via Bluetooth an open
source micro-controller is used. The case then
passes the information by activating an individual vibro-tactile motors next to
the fingers that make up the chords.
(Image source: TechCrunch)
"Augmenting
Braille Input through Multitouch Feedback" (2013)
H. Nicolau, K.
Montague, J. Guerreiro, D. Marques, T. Guerreiro, C. Stewart, V. L. Hanson
Abstract
" Current touch interfaces lack the rich
tactile feedback that allows blind users to detect and correct errors.
This is especially relevant for multitouch interactions, such as Braille
input. We propose HoliBraille, a system that combines touch input and
multi-point vibrotactile output on mobile devices. We believe this
technology can offer several benefits to blind users; namely, convey
feedback for complex multitouch gestures, improve input
performance, and support inconspicuous interactions. In this paper,
we present the design of our unique prototype, which allows users to
receive multitouch localized vibrotactile feedback. Preliminary results on
perceptual discrimination show an average of 100% and 82% accuracy for
single-point and chord discrimination, respectively. Finally, we discuss a
text-entry application with rich tactile feedback."
The project aims to improve opthalmic health in underdeveloped countries by adapting smartphones with a clip-on hardware and an app. Created by a team of
ophthalmologists, developers and engineers, PEEK is a combination of different technologies that can be used by a non-expert with short training to carry out a range of eye-health checks and help prevent and
diagnose blindness.
(Image source: Dezeen Magazine)
"By harnessing mobile phone apps,
hardware and rigorous scientific testing, we have created an easy to use,
affordable and portable system for testing eyes anywhere in the world - from
surgeries to patients’ homes".
Between 19th and 25th of July I presented my 2nd scientific paper as a member of UNIDCOM (http://www.iade.pt/unidcom/) in Kraków on Jagiellonian University. The title is Human-Social Interaction model for e-health Interfaces and it is related with my Ph.D research. If you are a researcher international ou not, please flow me on the Research Gate (The network dedicated to science and research): https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Claudia_Pernencar?ev=hdr_xprf AHFE 2014 was wonderful. I met internacional researchers and I have done good contacts. Almost 482 people was there from 50 countries integrated in 12 distinguished international boards. The conference was sponsored by IBM and Elsevier. For me, It was important to better understand about the impact factor of cientific publishing with Taylor & Francis Group. For more information about the conference: http://www.ahfe2014.org. Next year, will be in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA 26-30 July. The 6th international Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics.
The City of Kraków
Kraków with almost 853,000 inhabitants, is a city located on Poland south, in the margins of the river Vistula with attractive places to see. It was founded around by the year 700. This city was devastated by Mongols in 1241,1259 and 1287. It has been integrated in Austria and acquired the name of Krakow in 1914. The historical center was inscribed by UNESCO in 1978 Patrimony of the World list. It is a safety city, so we can use public transport even at night. Walking around it is another solution, in my opinion, one of the best to understand the local culture and the details.
Kraków details
The Jewish quarter
One of my interests since a few years ago, has been the Jewish culture. I started to see the Jewish Museum in Berlim last year and in Poland, another Jewish Museum. Both are different but complement themselves. Jewish Museum Berlin http://www.jmberlin.de The permanent exhibition “Two Millennia of German Jewish History“ presents Germany through the eyes of the Jewish minority.This based on the people who have directed with the development of the museum as well as personalities of public life who are dedicated to intercultural understanding and have been honored with the Jewish Museum's Prize for Understanding and Tolerance. In three buildings we can found two millennia of German-Jewish history are on display in the permanent exhibition as well as in various changing exhibitions. Jewish Museum Polandhttp://www.en.galiciajewishmuseum.org This is more a contemporary look at the Jewish past in Poland. It is to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and to celebrate the Jewish culture of Polish Galicia, presenting the Jewish history from a different perspective.
Rural Kraków
On the way to Auschwitz I had the opportunity to contact the more rural side of the country. Almost all the houses I passed were well estimated, with large gardens and animals in the wild to get along with others from dogs, chickens, jumper, ducks, among others.
Auschwitz
"In the years 1940-1945, the Nazis deported at least 1300.000 people to Auschwitz: 1100.000 Jews; 150.000 Poles; 23.000 Gypsies; 15.000 Soviet prisoners of war; 25.000 Prisoners from other ethnic groups." The visit worth by the experience and the local hypothesis of realising the horrors passed there, reliving the memory of so many films that create the atmosphere of the dorms, prisons and the outside dry. In my opinion, the museum does not make the justice to the memory of the victims, I think due to some conservatism in transforming the business in a historical product.
Kraków flavors Poland is a country at the crossroads of European trade routes where the melting pot of cultures, religions and traditions are embeded. I read in Trip Advisor that was one of the best country in Europe for bread, bigos, white and red Żurek barszcz, Pierogi, Baltic herring and highland sheep's cheese but our choise was Ukrainian Food. The most famous main course is a table of the Ukrainian is the Red Borscht soup (3th picture). It is served with garlic bread and a glass of horilka. Horilka is Ukrainian vodka but we ordered beer (2nd Picture). I think we eat Salo with potatos (4th Picture) but I'm not shure. Salo is a product made of pork, a side of him is with skin.
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