‘I have looked everywhere that can be looked’: Bloomsday 60

[Have you looked in the mirror lately?].

Every morning I have the same routine; I get out of bed and pray about the day. I then turn on the coffee pot and make my way into the bathroom. There, I look into the mirror and begin to make some much needed improvements. First, I deal with gooky eyes. No, I didn’t say goo goo eyes! I wash away the sleepy stuff that cakes in on the corner of my eyes. I put in my contacts; brush my teeth, tong...

Even if I showed you where you looked, remembering where you just looked is hard

People know surprisingly little about their own visual behavior, which can be problematic when learning or executing complex visual tasks such as search of medical images. We investigated whether providing observers with online information about their eye position during search would help them recall their own fixations immediately afterwards. Seventeen observers searched for various objects in...

Empowering looked after children

Children’s rights include the right to participation in decisions made about them. For looked after children, this right is enshrined in the Children Act, 1989. This article reports the results of a study of children’s views about their experience of being looked after and the degree of power they felt they had to influence decision making. Their main areas of criticism were frequent changes of...

Looked after children

Introduction There were 27 quality studies on looked after children as determined by the project categorisation. Studies included children who were placed with non-related foster parents as well as those in kinship care; these are currently the placements of choice in Anglophone jurisdictions (Ainsworth and Thoburn 2014). Surveys have compared children’s material resources in different forms of...

To be looked at as though air: civil attention matters.