What Did You Try Last Semester? How Did It Work?

"How did you sleep last night? Have you eaten today?".

Correspondence and reprints: Maya Harel-Sterling, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec. E-mail [email protected] Accepted for publication June 24, 2013 Stepping into a stranger’s home on a medical visit was a new and humbling experience. During a recent medical school elective in social paediatrics, I had the opportunity to make several such home visits. It was challenging and e...

[Short Paper] Who Did You Call Last?

Providing a secure and usable user authentication scheme for mobile phones is a major challenge. Though there are many proposals for user authentication, PIN or passwords only are popularly used for mobile phones, which are inherently weak since users tend to choose PINs or passwords that are easy to remember and reuse, making it also easy for attackers to guess and compromise them. We introudu...

How long did it last? You would better ask a human

In the future, human-like robots will live among people to provide company and help carrying out tasks in cooperation with humans. These interactions require that robots understand not only human actions, but also the way in which we perceive the world. Human perception heavily relies on the time dimension, especially when it comes to processing visual motion. Critically, human time perception ...

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One Semester of Occupational Therapy Passed Virtually: What Experiences Did We Learn from Covid-19?

One Semester of Occupational Therapy Passed Virtually: What Experiences Did We Learn from Covid-19?  Masoud Gharib 1, Seyed Ali Hosseini 2     1 Assistant Professor, Department of Occupational, Orthopedic Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran 2 Professor, Department of Occupational Therapy, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran...