Cambodian refugee women frequently face the cumulative trauma of war experiences and cultural adaptation to the American inner-city environment. This qualitative study investigated cultural beliefs, coping strategies, and management of family stress among Cambodian refugee women living in the inner-city environment. Focused and open-ended interviews were conducted in the informants' homes using...

Department of Preventive Environment and Nutrition, Institute of Health Biosciences, 3-18-15, Kuramoto-cho, Tokushima city, Tokushima 770-8503, Japan Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Institute of Socio Techno Sciences, 2-1, Miname Jyosanjima-cho, Tokushima city, 770-8506, Japan The University of Tokushima Graduate School Corresponding author: Akira Takahashi, M.D., Ph.D., De...

The ability of spatial memory to adapt to changes in an environment was investigated in an experiment, where participants navigated in a virtual reality reconstruction of a city they were familiar with. In the learning phase, participants used a special bike to pedal through a reconstruction of the inner city of Tübingen, Germany. Their task was to memorize the locations of the buildings in the...

emerging of the industrial revolution caused the dominance of machine in man`s life. at the beginning, man was fascinated by machine; by its order, automation, and its efficiency. then he tried to adapt this mechanistic order to his life and create a completely ordered, clean and predictable environment. thus modern urbanism appeared. in comparison with dark, airless and contaminated industrial...

The Distributed Legible City (DLC) is an interactive multi-media art installation enabling a number of ‘cyclists’ to participate in a shared virtual environment and to tour together around three city representations. In this paper we describe the evolution of the DLC guided by ethnographic study. In particular we consider the implications and problems associated with designing a virtual environ...