Impressive functionality and comfort

Effects of Functionality on Perceived Comfort of Wearables

This paper presents results from a study examining the link between the functionality and the comfort of wearable computers. We gave participants two different devices to wear and varied our descriptions of device functionality. Significant differences in desirability and comfort ratings were found between functional conditions, indicating that functionality is a factor of comfort. Differences ...

An impressive ceiling.

When Small Effects Are Impressive

Effect size is becoming an increasingly popular measure of the importance of an effect, both in individual studies and in meta-analyses. However, a large effect size is not the only way to demonstrate that an effect is important. This article describes 2 alternative methodological strategies, in which importance is a function of how minimal a manipulation of the independent variable or how diff...

The Impressive Power of Stopwatches

In this paper we define and study the class of stopwatch automata which are timed automata augmented with stopwatches and unobservable behaviour. In particular, we investigate the expressive power of this class of automata, and show as a main result that any finite or infinite timed language accepted by a linear hybrid automaton is also acceptable by a stopwatch automaton. The consequences of t...

Molecular epidemiology; New but impressive

    Molecular epidemiology is a subdivision of medical science and epidemiology that emphases on the involvement of potential environmental and genetic risk factors, recognized at the molecular level, to the etiology and avoidance of sickness through populations. This arena has developed from the combination of molecular biology and traditional epidemiological research. Molecular...