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Generations that are currently receiving their education and those yet to come should get prepared for everyday interaction with information and communication technology. European Parliament and the Council of the European Union included digital competence in key competencies which each person needs to possess in order to adapt to the rapidly changing world. Their definition of digital competence,...
The Andalusian Patient Safety Observatory (Spain) has developed a serious game to promote hand hygiene among health care professionals and citizens. We have used this new methodology, based on simulation and interaction, to create a non-risk environment, where users have to decide when and how must perform hand hygiene, with no adverse effect from their actions. Prior to the ludic part, there is a...
Practice is an important element in the child-care training in the sense that child minders can experience various events they should learn. They have to infer the causal relations of those events, and obtain awareness. Without experiencing those processes, they cannot have effective childcare practice. We developed a child-care training system for child minders to improve the quality of child-care...
This paper outlines the experiences in developing, administrating and conducting a web-based Master of Engineering program at the University of Waterloo. The program is geared towards power industry professionals. The attractive features of the program are that (a) it provides multi-track options for the participants, and (b) courses are delivered on-line through the internet using multi-media communication...
Quantitative analysis of wood damages, which influence the reliability and safety of wood structure, was studied by artificial neural networks. It was proved by experiment that three different degree damages of wood can be recognized by neural network in acoustic emission (AE) testing when reasonable neural network was chosen, efficient training case was constructed, reasonable parameter and training...
Being aware of the work situation around you is necessary to efficiently and safely perform any work, but it is especially crucial when there is potential for serious injury, as with electrical work. This paper will outline a two-fold approach to improving the overall situational awareness of employees performing electrical work by: 1) supervision's preparatory engagement of employees in work planning...
The construction industry has been facing a paradigm shift to (i) increase; productivity, efficiency, infrastructure value, quality and sustainability, (ii) reduce; lifecycle costs, lead times and duplications, via effective collaboration and communication of stakeholders in construction projects. Digital construction is a political initiative to address low productivity in the sector. This seeks...
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