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Children use Internet in a daily activity both at home and school. Despite the benefits that Internet might has for children, there are risks surrounded children that we must recognise and be careful of it. Internet use has serious risks including child sexual harassment and child pornography. Unfortunately, cyber criminals take advantages of technological advancement and exposed young people as they...
The feasibility of thermographic imaging to diagnose pediatric fractures has been studied in the last years. The advantages lie in being a cost-effective, non-harmful, non-contact and non-invasive technique, since ionizing radiations are not used to get the image. Once the pictures of the affected limb are taken, the processing becomes necessary. In order to reduce the waiting time, a software tool...
A child version of mental accounting tasks has been administrated on 180 3- to 5-year-olds to tentatively investigate the development of young children's mental accounting. The results show that the development of young children's mental accounting varies along with age in the three ways in which the non-fungibility effect of mental accounting takes effect. In the expenditure loss task (ELT), mental...
In order to increase the safety for children, with help of a higher degree of control and routine during school transport, an EU-project, SAFEWAY2SCHOOL1, started in 2010. This project aims to take the previous study, made in 2008 in Kristianstad, a step further and highlight and enhance the technological aspects of different subsystems in order to achieve a system even more useful. Within the project...
Even though protecting the children — one of the most vulnerable transport system's users — is of great importance for all societies, bus transport to school is a highly under investigated area in many EU-countries. School transport by bus is not just about going by the school bus. It should be considered from a door-to-door perspective. A system that supports all involved stakeholders and take into...
Bus Stops for school busses incorporate a special risk to school children. Most accidents on the way to school occur at or close to the school bus stops. Modern ITS telecommunication technology can be applied to make bus stops safer and inform car drivers about dangerous bus stops on their route. In order to raise the acceptance of speed limits at bus stops it can help to reliably inform the drivers...
This essay investigates the situation of young researchers in the HRI community. I argue that we need to have a more child friendly environment to encourage young staff members to create children.
Playing computer games is widely popular among children and teenagers as an entertainment activity; meanwhile, playing computer games also provides a learning opportunity. For example, the rules of the game have to be learned by the player in order to improve his/her performance. Based on that principle, the City eHealth Research Centre (CeRC) developed a web game for 13-15 year olds, whereby the...
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