Research on Accessible Design of Macau Museum for Disabled Groups

Background: Developing the knowledge base on the impact of aphasia on people's social lives has become increasingly important in recent times to further our understanding of the broad consequences of communication disability and thus provide appropriate services. Past research clearly indicates that relationships and social activities with family members and others undergo change with the onset of aphasia in an individual, however more evidence of a quantitative nature would be beneficial. Aims: The current research furthers our knowledge by quantifying chronically aphasic older people's regular social contacts and social activities, and places them in context by comparing them with healthy older people of similar age and education. Methods & Procedures: A total of 30 aphasic participants aged 57 to 88 years, and 71 non‐aphasic controls aged 62 to 98 years were interviewed by a speech and language therapist using self‐report measures of Social Network Analysis (Antonucci & Akiyama, 1987) and Social Activities Checklist (Cruice, 2001, in Worrall & Hickson, 2003). Demographic information was also collected. Descriptive statistics are presented and independent samples t tests were used to examine differences between the groups. Outcomes & Results: Participants with primarily mild to moderate aphasic impairment reported a considerable range of social contacts (5–51) and social activities (8–18). Many significant differences were evident between the two groups' social contacts and activities. On average, aphasic participants had nine fewer social contacts (mainly “friend” relationships) and three fewer social activities (mainly “leisure” activities) than their non‐aphasic peers. The majority of controls were satisfied with their social activities, whereas the majority of aphasic participants were not and wanted to be doing more. There were some general similarities between the groups, in terms of range of social contacts, overall pattern of social relationships, and core social activities. Conclusions: Older people with chronic aphasia had significantly fewer social contacts and social activities than their peers. People with aphasia expressed a desire to increase the social activity of their lives. Given the importance of leisure activity and relationships with friends as well as family for positive well‐being, speech and language therapists may direct their rehabilitation efforts towards two areas: (1) conversational partner programmes training friends to maintain these relationships; and (2) encouraging and supporting aphasic clients in leisure activities of their choice.

Mekânlar kullanıcılar ile iletişim kurarken yaratıcılık, özgünlük ve estetik gibi kavramları içinde barındırması gerekmektedir. Bu noktada tasarımcılar; kullanıcı-mekân arasındaki iletişimi sağlarken yaşam biçimlerini ve kullanıcının zihninde oluşan görüntüyü anlayarak tasarım çözümleri getirmektedir. İnsan bilincinin bir eylemi olarak ifade edilebilen tasarım kavramının maddi ve ruhsal dünya üzerindeki gereksinimleri kapsadığı ve bu çerçevede şekillendiği söylenebilir. Maddi dünya olarak nitelendirilen kavram mekân tasarımının somut örneği şeklinde ifade edilirken, ruhsal dünya ise sosyokültürel yapının yaşamsal felsefelerini ve bunun tasarıma olan yansımalarını kapsamaktadır. Antik bir Çin Felsefesi olan Yin-Yang Uzak Doğu coğrafyasında kültürel bir düşünce ve felsefe olarak yer almaktadır. Bu felsefe insanların sosyal yaşamlarını ve aynı zamanda yaşam biçimlerini de şekillendirmektedir. Bu çalışmada, Yin-Yang felsefesinin mekân tasarımı üzerindeki yeri ve öneminin araştırmak için literatür çalışması yapılmış, görsel tekniklerinden faydalanılmıştır. Elde edilen görsel verilerin analizi sonucu Yin-Yang felsefesinin bir maneviyat ya da yaşam biçimi olmasının yanı sıra mekân tasarımına etkisinin de olduğu görülmüştür.

The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on people's social, economic, and cultural lives have been dramatic. Social isolation, information overload from news consumption, the absence of sports activities, and other phenomena contributed to a significant rise in the volume of online gaming during the pandemic. The study reported in this chapter explores the meaning of sports games in this period, on the basis of in-depth interviews with amateur and professional eSports players. For amateur gamers, video games provided genuine comfort in times of social, emotional, and sports deficits, and helped many players pass the time when cultural and leisure events were significantly restricted. Games sustained players' social lives and, of equal importance, helped many escape the barrage of news reports and information on the spread of the virus. In contrast, professional players felt that they regressed during the pandemic and that the pandemic eroded their professional status.

In recent decades, the economies of many countries have produced increasingly unequal outcomes for the rich and poor. This economic trend has attracted interest from members of the media, public and political classes as well as researchers who are interested in its societal implications. While this research has traditionally been the purview of economists and sociologists, there has been a burgeoning growth in research that has sought to understand the psychology of economic inequality. In this review, we summarize this work, focusing on two major themes: (1) how people perceive the scale of economic inequality and appraise its significance, and (2) how living in an economically unequal environment shapes people's social lives. Together, this work affirms claims that economic inequality is 'the defining issue of our time' (Obama, 2013) with a great deal of destructive potential. We identify important questions that await further research attention.

This descriptive study was carried out in order to identify and analysing the knowledge that the patients with pulmonary tuberculosis have about the disease and the experiences which they have passed through; to identify some aspects related to their sexuality's changing after acquiring the pulmonary tuberculosis and characterizing the living experiences toward their family, the friends'/relatives' reactions and the emerging feelings. Fifty sexually active patients were interviewed. The results showed that 15 (30.0%) patients with pulmonary tuberculosis did not have any knowledge about the disease and 32 (64.0%) did not know how to prevent it. Among the fifty patients interviewed, 29 (58.0%) have realized negative reactions. The pulmonary tuberculosis do not interferes directly only in these sexual and social people's lives, but also in their partners social lives. This fact has been contributing in order to decrease their sexual relations often.

In challenging social contexts of technology design, such as those involving fighting the violence against children and adolescents, the consideration of human values is critical, as they influence people's social and cultural lives. Considering values when understanding a social problem is not a trivial activity due to the difficulty of working with abstract concepts, the complexity of people's lives, and the lack of artifacts and recommendations to support designers in this task. Drawing on the Socially Aware Design approach, this paper describes the use of value-oriented artifacts to understand the problem and to identify requirements for the design of a computational solution in this context. As a result, the problem of violence against children is characterized in a socially-aware manner: 58 stakeholders were identified in the problem domain, which led to an analysis of 60 challenges of the violence impact and of 31 proposals of solutions were mapped to face these challenges. Stakeholder’s values in the fight against violence context were identified, which enabled the identification of 43 value-oriented requirements for potential technological solutions for the context.

To Evaluate the impact of mild-to-moderate orofacial tardive dyskinesia (TD) symptoms on the people and social lives of people with TD. TD, a movement disorder affecting the face and extremities, may arise in patients taking antipsychotics. The impact of stigma on the professional and social lives of people with moderate-to-severe TD was previously examined, but has not been investigated in those with mild-to-moderate TD. This study is an experimental, randomized digital survey of a general population sample. Three component surveys corresponding to employment, dating, and friendship domains were adopted from a prior study. For each domain, participants were randomized 1:1 into either a test group (who viewed a video of a scripted interview with an actor depicting mild-to-moderate TD movements) or a control group (who viewed the same actor but without TD movements) and asked about their impressions of the video subject. Actor simulations of the TD symptoms were validated by physicians familiar with TD and rehearsed to simulate orofacial movements with a total Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (AIMS) score of 3-6. Statistical comparison was made using Wilcoxon signed-rank or chi-squared tests for continuous and categorical variables. A total of 800 respondents completed each survey. In all domains, respondents had more negative perceptions of actors portraying mild-to-moderate TD movements than of the same actors without movements. For employment, 41% fewer respondents in the test group versus the control group agreed that the actor would be suitable for client-facing jobs (P<0.001). For dating, the proportions of respondents who agreed that they would like to continue talking to the actor and who would be interested in meeting them for a coffee/drink were 23.2% and 26.0% lower, respectively, in the test group than in the control group (P<0.001). For friendship, the proportions of respondents who rated the actor as interesting and who would be interested in friendship with them were 13.0% and 12.2% lower in the test group than in the control group (P<0.001). This study addresses the stigma faced by those with mild-to-moderate TD in professional and social situations. Consistent with previous results for moderate-to-severe TD, actors simulating mild-to-moderate orofacial TD movements were perceived to be less likely to move forward in a job interview, be considered as a potential romantic partner, or be a new friend. This study was funded by Teva Pharmaceuticals, Petach Tikva, Israel.

With the development of information technology, online social networks grow dramatically. They now play a significant role in people's social life, especially for the younger generation. While huge amount of information is available in online social networks, privacy concerns arise. Among various privacy protection proposals, the notions of privacy as control and information boundary have been introduced. Commercial social networking sites have adopted the concept to implement mechanisms such as Google circles and Facebook custom lists. However, the functions are not widely accepted by the users, partly because it is tedious and labor-intensive to manually assign friends into circles.

Recent years, social network has attracted many attentions from research communities in data mining, social science and mobile etc, since users can create different types of information due to different actions and the information gives us the opportunities to better understand the insights of people's social lives. Co-clustering is an important technique to detect patterns and phenomena of two types of closely related objects. For example, in a location based social network, places can be clustered with regards to location and category, respectively and users can be clustered w.r.t. their location and interests, respectively. Therefore, there are usually some latent goals behind a co-clustering application. However, traditionally, co-clustering methods are not specifically designed to handle multiple goals. That leaves certain drawbacks, i.e., it cannot guarantee that objects satisfying each individual goal would be clustered into the same cluster. However, in many cases, clusters of objects meeting the same goal is required, e.g., a user may want to search places within one category but in different locations. In this paper, we propose a goal-oriented co-clustering model, which could generate co-clusterings with regards to different goals simultaneously. By this method, we could get co-clusterings containing objects with desired aspects of information from the original data source. Seed features sets are pre-selected to represent goals of co-clusterings. By generating expanded feature sets from seed feature sets, the proposed model concurrently co-clustering objects and assigning other features to different feature clusters.

This study was conducted to analyze the representation of resistance by women in the horror film "Perempuan Tanah Jahanam". Apart from being a form of mass communication media that describes people's social life, film is also a cultural creation that brings important values to the audience, for example regarding issues about women. This study uses a qualitative descriptive approach with analysis of Roland Barthes semiotic model. The focus of this research is to look for markers, markers and signs in 5 scenes that show resistance. Data collection techniques used are documentation, literature study, and observation. The result of this research is that women's resistance is shown as a phenomenon that refers to social situations. The aggrieved parties in the social structure of society fight against those who harm them. The ideology contained in the film is the ideology of Postmodern Feminism. Feminism of this school avoids terms that imply the existence of a unity that limits differences. Postmodern feminism opposes characteristics in an effort to resolve women's oppression. The film "Perempuan Tanah Jahanam" is a form of women's rebellion against social reality. This school of thought clarifies itself as postmodern feminists who try to avoid any action that will restore male construction.

This study is entitled "Perception of the Community Against Modern Markets" This study presents two formulations of the problem, namely whether the influence of modern markets on the social life of the community and how the public perception of the modern market in Kamal, Bangkalan Regency. Based on the formulation of the problem, this study has a purpose to see people's perception of the existence of a modern market in Kamal, Bangkalan Regency. To find out the influence of the modern market on people's social life in Kamal, Bangkalan Regency. To know the development of capitalism in Indonesia by connecting capitalism and the development of modern markets. This type of research is qualitative descriptive, using several informants to conduct interviews and observations. The source of the data used is the primary source, namely information that comes from direct observation to the research location by means of observation and interviews. While secondary sources are data obtained from documentation or library studies to complete primary data. Data collection is carried out through field research through observation, interviews, and documentation.

Mobile computer technologies are increasingly being appropriated and used to facilitate people's social life outside the work domain. Addressing this emerging domain of use, we present the design of a context-aware mobile information system prototype facilitating sociality in public places: Just-for-Us. The design of the prototype system was informed by two empirical studies: an architectural analysis of a recently built public space in Melbourne, Australia and a field study of small groups socialising there. We describe these two studies and illustrate how findings informed our prototype design. Finally, we outline an ongoing field study of the use of the Just-for-Us prototype.

Nowadays, Electronic Medical Records (EHRs) are closely linked to people's social lives. In order to ensure the convenience of medical services, many related organizations need to share EHRs across organizations to exchange information. The existing private EHR shareable schemes still contain some security issues, e.g., unreliability of cloud service provider, complex key calculation and unreliable backward security. In this paper, we propose an attribute-based access control scheme based on the smart contract (ABAC-SC). By virtue of the blockchain technique, ABAC-SC can be directly embedded into the existing private EHRs shareable system to solve existing unsafe problems. Considering the storage constraints of the blockchain, a data processing solution is designed to reduce the storage requirements of the pre-data upload process. We simulate our ABAC-SC scheme in Ethereum's test network Rinkeby, and the experimental results show the feasibility of our solution.

Social media use has become an integral part of children's and adolescents' lives. It has become a novel way of interaction among people and influences people's social lives and public opinion as well as people's purchasing decisions and businesses. Any website or platform that allows social interaction is considered to be a social media site. Social media use among children in 25 European countries has been reported to be 38% among 9-12year olds and 77% among those aged 13-16years. All these children report having their own profile on at least one social network site. While social networking provides children and adolescents with many opportunities and benefits, it also carries many risks. Among the benefits are socialization and communication enhancement, improving learning skills, positive impact on education and getting health information. Potential risks of social media use include falsifying age and identity, cyberbullying, sexting, Facebook depression, gamification, glamourization, cyberostracism and sleep disturbances.Conclusion: Paediatricians play a vital role in promoting the physical, mental and social welfare of all children. There is a critical need for paediatricians to play an active role, guiding children and families appropriately through the impact of social networking, in order to become a real driver of children's development.

High-speed development of unmanned aerial vehicles extends the applications of robots from the ground to the sky, which has brought great changes to people's social life. However, most commercially available UAVs are not equipped with robotic arms. The UAV with robotic arm has the ability to manipulate surrounding objects, which will greatly expand the working scope of the UAVs. In our research, we designed and completed a practical UAV autonomous grasping system in this experiment. UAV autonomous grasping system consists of five sub-systems, including flight control system, motion capture system, wireless communication system, ground station control system and Single-DOF Gripper System. The main difficulty lies in the coupling of the dynamics between the four-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle and the manipulator on it, mathematical modeling and etc. In addition, the four-rotor UAVs need to generate the appropriate flight path according to the actual pose of the target object in order to ensure the efficiency of the task. Based on this system, we have carried on the preliminary research on flight control and trajectory planning of the UAV system equipped with the manipulator. The results of the research will be helpful to implement and improve the system in the future.