Cultural Heritage and Mobile Robotics Technologies

This paper reviews current research works at the authors’ Institutions to illustrate how mobile robotics and related technologies can be used to enhance economical fruition, control, protection and social impact of the cultural heritage. Robots allow experiencing on-line, from remote locations, tours at museums, archaeological areas and monuments. These solutions avoid travelling costs, increase beyond actual limits the number of simultaneous visitors, and prevent possible damages that can arise by over-exploitation of fragile environments. The same tools can be used for exploration and monitoring of cultural artifacts located in difficult to reach or dangerous areas. Examples are provided by the use of underwater robots in the exploration of deeply submerged archaeological areas. Besides, technologies commonly employed in robotics can be used to help exploring, monitoring and preserving cultural artifacts. Examples are provided by the development of procedures for data acquisition and mapping and by object recognition and monitoring algorithms.

The effect of mobile technology as an active student response system on the acquisition of U.S. history content of secondary students with specific learning disabilities

Students with specific learning disabilities (SLD) typically learn less history content than their peers without disabilities and show fewer learning gains. Even when they are provided with the same instructional strategies, many students with SLD struggle to grasp complex historical concepts and content area vocabulary. Many strategies involving technology have been used in the past to enhance learning for students with SLD in history classrooms. However, very few studies have explored the effectiveness of emerging mobile technology in K-12 history classrooms. ^ This study investigated the effects of mobile devices (iPads) as an active student response (ASR) system on the acquisition of U.S. history content of middle school students with SLD. An alternating treatments single subject design was used to compare the effects of two interventions. There were two conditions and a series of pretest probesin this study. The conditions were: (a) direct instruction and studying from handwritten notes using the interactive notebook strategy and (b) direct instruction and studying using the Quizlet App on the iPad. There were three dependent variables in this study: (a) percent correct on tests, (b) rate of correct responses per minute, and (c) rate of errors per minute. ^ A comparative analysis suggested that both interventions (studying from interactive notes and studying using Quizlet on the iPad) had varying degrees of effectiveness in increasing the learning gains of students with SLD. In most cases, both interventions were equally effective. During both interventions, all of the participants increased their percentage correct and increased their rate of correct responses. Most of the participants decreased their rate of errors. ^ The results of this study suggest that teachers of students with SLD should consider a post lesson review in the form of mobile devices as an ASR system or studying from handwritten notes paired with existing evidence-based practices to facilitate students’ knowledge in U.S. history. Future research should focus on the use of other interactive applications on various mobile operating platforms, on other social studies subjects, and should explore various testing formats such as oral question-answer and multiple choice. ^

Disruptive Ambient Music: Mobile Phone Music Listening as Portable Urbanism

This article explores the use of mobile phones as portable remediated sound devices for mobile listening — from boom boxes to personal stereos and mp3 players. This mode of engaging the city through music playing and listening reveals a particular urban strategy and acoustic urban politics. It increases the sonic presence of mobile owners and plays a role in territorialisation dynamics, as well as in eliciting territorial controversies in public. These digital practices play a key role in the enactment of the urban mood and ambience, as well as in the modulation of people’s presence — producing forms of what Spanish architect Roberto González calls portable urbanism: an entanglement of the digital, the urban and the online that activates a map of a reality over the fabric of the city, apparently not so present, visible and audible

Understanding social media in everyday life: Ethnomethodological and conversation analytic perspectives

Over the last decade, social media has become a hot topic for researchers of collaborative technologies (e.g., CSCW). The pervasive use of social media in our everyday lives provides a ready source of naturalistic data for researchers to empirically examine the complexities of the social world. In this talk I outline a different perspective informed by ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (EMCA) - an orientation that has been influential within CSCW, yet has only rarely been applied to social media use. EMCA approaches can complement existing perspectives through articulating how social media is embedded in everyday life, and how its social organisation is achieved by users of social media. Outlining a possible programme of research, I draw on a corpus of screen and ambient audio recordings of mobile device use to show how EMCA research can be generative for understanding social media through concepts such as adjacency pairs, sequential context, turn allocation / speaker selection, and repair. In doing so, I also raise questions about existing studies of social media use and the way they characterise interactional phenomena.

Analisi sperimentale di un sistema di localizzazione UWB per applicazioni robotiche

Data la pervasività dell’elettronica nella vita moderna, sempre più interesse è stato posto nelle applicazioni di localizzazione. In ambienti indoor e outdoor, dove sono richieste precisioni dell’ordine delle decine di centimetri, i classici servizi GNSS non sono applicabili. Una tecnologia promettente è quella a banda ultra-larga (UWB), affermata recentemente sul mercato. Un’alternativa potrebbe essere l’utilizzo di sensori ottici con marker di riferimento, però la presenza di fumo e idrometeore presenti nell’ambiente potrebbero andare ad oscurare i marker, rendendo impossibile la localizzazione. Lo scopo della tesi è volto a studiare un sistema di localizzazione UWB, progettato dall’Università di Bologna, ora sviluppato e commercializzato, in un’applicazione robotica. In particolare, l’idea è quella di porre il sistema di localizzazione sopra un elemento mobile, per esempio nella parte terminale di un braccio meccanico, al fine di localizzare un oggetto dotato di nodo UWB, ricavando dinamicamente la posizione relativa tra il braccio e l’oggetto. La tesi si concentra inizialmente a livello teorico sulle caratteristiche delle principali tecnologie coinvolte, in particolare i sistemi UWB e il filtraggio Bayesiano, per poi trattare i limiti teorici della localizzazione, nei concetti di Cramér-Rao lower bound (CRLB) e geometric dilution of precision (GDOP). Da questi, si motiva l’utilizzo della tecnica two-way ranging (TWR) come principio di raccolta delle misure per la localizzazione, per poi ricavare le curve teoriche dell’errore di localizzazione, tenendo conto dei limiti geometrici imposti, utilizzate come riferimento per l’analisi dell’errore ottenuto con il sistema reale. La tecnologia viene testata in tre campagne di misura. Nelle prime due si osserva la presenza di un piano metallico parallelo alla direzione di propagazione, per esaminare gli effetti delle riflessioni sulla localizzazione, mentre nella terza campagna si considera la presenza di acqua dolce.

Aumentare la consapevolezza sul benessere digitale: Data Visualization e Sonification in un’applicazione mobile

La tecnologia gioca un ruolo importante nella vita della maggior parte delle persone, ma come possiamo assicurarci che migliori effettivamente la vita piuttosto che distrarci da essa? Con gli smartphone di oggi, i social media e i flussi infiniti di contenuti, molte persone sono pronte a condannare la tecnologia sulla base della loro convinzione che questi prodotti siano dannosi per la salute mentale e il benessere. Ma concentrarsi solo su questi effetti potenzialmente dannosi non ci aiuta a raccogliere tutti i vantaggi che questi strumenti hanno da offrire, gestendo anche i loro rischi. Da qui nasce il digital wellbeing: un termine utilizzato per descrivere l’impatto delle tecnologie e dei servizi digitali sulla salute mentale, fisica, sociale ed emotiva delle persone. Lo scopo di questa tesi è quello di aumentare la consapevolezza sul reale utilizzo dei dispositivi e sulle proprie abitudini salutari attraverso la sonificazione, un processo di traduzione dei dati in suono, a volte in un contesto musicale utilizzato come metodo per superare le barriere della comunicazione scientifica. Questo metodo è particolarmente vantaggioso per la sua capacità di rappresentare i dati scientifici per le persone con disabilità visive, che spesso non sono in grado di interagire con le tradizionali visualizzazioni dei dati. Per raggiungere l'obiettivo della tesi viene preso in esame una solo tipologia di dispositivi, gli iPhone, per la quale verrà creata un'applicazione che riesca ad ottenere i dati sulla salute, sulla forma fisica e di utilizzo dello smartphone.

Localizzazione e internazionalizzazione dei servizi di incrocio domanda/offerta di lavoro di Jopla S.r.l SB: tra traduzione umana e traduzione automatica

This thesis has been written as a result of the Language Toolkit project, organised by the Department of Interpreting and Translation of Forlì in collaboration with the Chamber of Commerce of Romagna. The aim of the project is to facilitate the internationalisation of small and medium enterprises in Romagna by making available to them the skills acquired by the students of the Faculty of Specialized Translation, who in turn are given the opportunity to approach an authentic professional context. Specifically, this thesis is the outcome of the 300-hour internship envisaged by the project, 75 of which were carried out at Jopla S.r.l. SB. The task assigned to the student was the translation into French of the Jopla For You web app and the Jopla PRO mobile app. This thesis consists of five chapters. The first chapter provides a general description of the Language Toolkit project and it focuses on the concept of translation into a non-native language. The second chapter outlines the theoretical context in which translation is set. Subsequently, the focus shifts to the topics of text, discourse, genre and textual typology, alongside a reflection on the applicability of these notions to web texts, and an analysis of the source text following Nord's model. The fourth chapter is dedicated to a description of the resources used in the preparation and translation phases. The fifth chapter describes the macro and micro strategies employed to carry out the translation. Furthermore, a comparative analysis between the human translation and the one provided by Google Translator is delivered. This analysis involves two methods: the first one follows the linguistic norms of the target language, while the second one relies on the error categorisation of the MQM model. Finally, the performance of Google Translate is investigated through the comparison of the results obtained from the MQM evaluation conducted in this thesis with the results obtained by Martellini (2021) in her analysis.

[the Teaching Of Social Sciences In Health: Between Practice And Theory].

The models of teaching social sciences and clinical practice are insufficient for the needs of practical-reflective teaching of social sciences applied to health. The scope of this article is to reflect on the challenges and perspectives of social science education for health professionals. In the 1950s the important movement bringing together social sciences and the field of health began, however weak credentials still prevail. This is due to the low professional status of social scientists in health and the ill-defined position of the social sciences professionals in the health field. It is also due to the scant importance attributed by students to the social sciences, the small number of professionals and the colonization of the social sciences by the biomedical culture in the health field. Thus, the professionals of social sciences applied to health are also faced with the need to build an identity, even after six decades of their presence in the field of health. This is because their ambivalent status has established them as a partial, incomplete and virtual presence, requiring a complex survival strategy in the nebulous area between social sciences and health.

[almost An Autobiography: A Study Of Social Scientists In Health Based On The Lattes Curriculum].

Among the various ways of adopting the biographical approach, we used the curriculum vitaes (CVs) of Brazilian researchers who work as social scientists in health as our research material. These CVs are part of the Lattes Platform of CNPq - the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, which includes Research and Institutional Directories. We analyzed 238 CVs for this study. The CVs contain, among other things, the following information: professional qualifications, activities and projects, academic production, participation in panels for the evaluation of theses and dissertations, research centers and laboratories and a summarized autobiography. In this work there is a brief review of the importance of autobiography for the social sciences, emphasizing the CV as a form of autobiographical practice. We highlight some results, such as it being a group consisting predominantly of women, graduates in social sciences, anthropology, sociology or political science, with postgraduate degrees. The highest concentration of social scientists is located in Brazil's southern and southeastern regions. In some institutions the main activities of social scientists are as teachers and researchers with great thematic diversity in research.

Juan César García: Social Medicine As Project And Endeavor.

This paper analyses some aspects of the trajectory of the Argentinian physician and sociologist Juan César García (1932-1984) in the field of Latin American Social Medicine. Three dimensions constituting his basic orientations are highlighted: the elaboration of systematic and reflective social thought; a critical attitude in questioning teaching and professional practices; a commitment to the institutionalization and dissemination of health knowledge.

Brazilian multicentre study of common mental disorders in primary care: rates and related social and demographic factors

Mental health problems are common in primary health care, particularly anxiety and depression. This study aims to estimate the prevalence of common mental disorders and their associations with socio-demographic characteristics in primary care in Brazil (Family Health Strategy). It involved a multicenter cross-sectional study with patients from Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Fortaleza (Ceará State) and Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul State), assessed using the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HAD). The rate of mental disorders in patients from Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Fortaleza and Porto Alegre were found to be, respectively, 51.9%, 53.3%, 64.3% and 57.7% with significant differences between Porto Alegre and Fortaleza compared to Rio de Janeiro after adjusting for confounders. Prevalence proportions of mental problems were especially common for females, the unemployed, those with less education and those with lower incomes. In the context of the Brazilian government's moves towards developing primary health care and reorganizing mental health policies it is relevant to consider common mental disorders as a priority alongside other chronic health conditions.

Identidade social e auto conceito do dançarino em cadeira de rodas

Universidade Estadual de Campinas . Faculdade de Educação Física

Procurando o lazer no Constituinte : sua inclusão como direito social na Constituição de 1988

Universidade Estadual de Campinas . Faculdade de Educação Física

Crescimento e desempenho motor em pre-escolares de Itapira SP : um enfoque bio-social-cultural

Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Faculdade de Educação Física

Etno Desporto indigena : contribuições da antropologia social a partir da experiencia entre os Kaingang

Universidade Estadual de Campinas . Faculdade de Educação Física