Social NUI: Social perspectives in natural user interfaces

Natural User Interfaces (NUI) offer rich ways for interacting with the digital world that make innovative use of existing human capabilities. They include and often combine different input modalities such as voice, gesture, eye gaze, body interactions, touch and touchless interactions. However much of the focus of NUI research and development has been on enhancing the experience of individuals interacting with technology. Effective NUIs must also acknowledge our innately social characteristics, and support how we communicate with each other, play together, learn together and collaboratively work together. This workshop concerns the social aspects of NUI. The workshop seeks to better understand the social uses and applications of these new NUI technologies -- how we design these technologies for new social practices and how we understand the use of these technologies in key social contexts.

Kinect e openNI a supporto delle NUI (Natural User Interface) applications.

Descrizione delle Natural User Interface e del framework OpenNI 2.0 compreso di caso applicativo.

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Change-induced stressors and effective coping strategies in nursing

This study seeks to examine the causality of non-nursing and nursing stressors on the job satisfaction of nurses and how coping strategies have a mediating influence on this relationship in the context of sector-wide reform. To conceptualize the relationships, a mediation path model was developed. Data were collected at two time points using a self-completed online survey over a six monthly interval. During time 1, 306 Australian nurses completed the online survey. In the first wave (time 1), 306 Australian nurses completed the survey. In the second wave (time 2), matched survey data were collected from 119 nurses. The analysis showed a significant causal relationship between time 1 administrative and role stressors and an increase in nursing stress in time 2. A significant relationship was also identified between job specific context stressors and the adoption of effective coping strategies to deal with increased level of change-induced stress and strain and the likelihood of reporting higher level of job satisfaction in time 2. This study contributes by providing an integrated theoretical perspective on how stress affects retention that has so far been elusive. This is useful to researchers wanting to examine this phenomenon further and practitioners responsible for implementing change programs.

滇东南老君山变质核杂岩地球化学和年代学初步研究

本文通过对滇东南老君山变质核杂岩各组成单元的地质特征、地球化学、热年代学等详细而系统的研究，得到了如下结论： （1）老君山地区存在古元古代结晶基底和中、新元古代岩浆活动，其中新元古代岩浆活动与华南（超级）地幔柱侵入、罗德里亚大陆裂解有关。 （2）南捞片麻岩与南温河花岗岩同属加里东期扬子板块与华夏板块同碰撞造山环境产物，两者同属变质泥岩、砂岩及中基性岩上壳岩部分熔融的S型花岗岩。 （3）老君山变质核杂岩基本形成时限在印支期260-160Ma，之后经历了不断隆升并在第三纪末出露剥蚀的过程。 （4）在老君山变质核杂岩韧-脆性基底拆离断层系和韧性核部剥离断层系各存在一次大规模的成矿作用，前者形成了南秧田、新寨等大型矿床，后者形成了都龙超大型矿床。时代分别为晚印支期的220-200Ma左右和晚燕山期80Ma左右。 （5）越北古陆的构造属性属于扬子和华夏板块拼贴前的华夏板块，即属于华南板块构造单元而非印支板块构造单元；Song Ma和Day Nui Con Voi剪切带之间的部分是从扬子板块西缘走滑剪切600km的杂岩体，亦非印支板块构造单元。 （6）较为详细论证了老君山地区的构造演化过程，并对滇东南泥盆纪-三叠纪末的构造演化提出了新的模式，即Song Ma古缝合线是印支板块与华南板块陆陆碰撞的残留形迹，八布蛇绿岩是大陆边缘前陆盆地局部海盆化的产物，其构造位置在俯冲期位于弧后盆地位置，在陆陆碰撞其位于前陆褶皱冲断带位置。 此外，本文还对利用都龙锡锌多金属矿床矿石中的锡石TIMS U-Pb定年方法进行了探索，确定了行之有效的锡石溶解的实验流程及方法，并首次获得都龙锡锌多金属矿床矿石中锡石TIMS U-Pb年龄为79.1±1.6Ma，证实了锡矿化主要与燕山晚期岩浆热液活动有关。

ENVIRON 2011: 21st Irish Environmental Researchers Colloquium

The theme of this year’s colloquium is “Towards 2020: Environmental challenges and opportunities for the next decade” which reflects the many environmental targets that have been set for the year 2020 in areas of climate change, renewable energy, water protection and biodiversity. In relation to the latter, we are delighted to have Professor Michael Depledge (Former Chairman of UK Science Advisory Committee on the Environment & Climate Change) at ENVIRON 2011 to deliver the colloquium keynote address on “Health and the Value of Nature”. The colloquium plenary session has a number of high profile speakers who will address the colloquium theme of environmental challenges and opportunities for the next decade including Professor John Sweeney (NUI Maynooth), Ms Laura Burke (Director of EPA’s Office of Climate, Licensing Research and Resource Use) and Mr John Mullins (CEO of Bord Gais). The research programme has 95 oral presentations and 60 poster presentations in the themes of water quality, energy and climate change, marine and coastal research, environmental management, environmental technologies, environment and health, and biodiversity and ecosystems. In addition, for the first year, poster presenters have the opportunity to make a 1 minute oral presentation on their poster during the oral sessions in the relevant theme. The 2011 colloquium also sees an increase the number of workshops and seminars accompanying the programme with an emphasis on training and development for postgraduates in the environmental area. We are particularly pleased to have a link with the Environment Graduate Programme in the “Ocean Studies Workshop” which illustrates how the ENVIRON colloquium can support and benefit from the various graduate programmes currently being developed within Universities. Finally ENVIRON 2011 and the UCC 2011 Law and the Environment symposium have been deliberately scheduled together at the same time and location to allow delegates from both conferences to benefit from each other’s programmes.