Supervising Children During Parental Distractions

Supervising children during parental distractions.

OBJECTIVE To examine the effects of parenting distractions on supervising behaviors in relation to child risky behaviors. METHODS Forty preschool-aged children and their parents were randomly assigned to occupy a simulated home living room for 45 min with the parent involved in either (a) no planned distraction, (b) a telephone call distraction, (c) a TV show distraction, or (d) a computer as...

Distractions During Critical Phases of Anaesthesia in the Obstetric Theatre

Introduction Accidents in aviation have been attributed to distractions in flight crews at critical times. This led to the sterile cockpit rule and pilots refraining from all non-essential conversations and activity during critical phases of flight.1 Take off and landing can be considered analogous to the critical phases of anaesthesia and has been looked at in the general theatre setting. We ...

Parental Investments in Children during the Great Recession

Innovative approaches to reducing nurses' distractions during medication administration.

BACKGROUND Contributing factors to medication errors include distractions, lack of focus, and failure to follow standard operating procedures. The nursing unit is vulnerable to a multitude of interruptions and distractions that affect the working memory and the ability to focus during critical times. Methods that prevent these environmental effects on nurses can help avert medication errors. ...

Visual Attention and Eye Gaze During Multiparty Conversations with Distractions

Our objective is to develop a computational model to predict visual attention behavior for an embodied conversational agent. During interpersonal interaction, gaze provides signal feedback and directs conversation flow. Simultaneously, in a dynamic environment, gaze also directs attention to peripheral movements. An embodied conversational agent should therefore employ social gaze not only for ...