Most interactive technology is designed for the individual user pursuing either a work-oriented accomplishment of tasks or an experience-oriented aesthetic/pleasurable endeavor. In the project here presented that design paradigm is turned up-side-down focusing on social use and social context. I furthermore argue that this social user perspective can be applied in other design projects and I pr...

nowadays, new developments in the realm of criminological studies have considerably aroused social science criminal researcher’s attention toward the other involved side, which are the very victims of such crimes. considering this, researchers have attempted to investigate, through victim-oriented approaches, the ruling condition of crime creation so that they might take sufficient measures to ...

Using the sawtooth map as basis of a coupled lattice enables simple analytic results to be obtained for global Lyapunov spectra number standard networks. The presented can used enrich course on chaos or dynamical systems by providing tractable examples higher dimensional maps and links in matrices. A suggestions classroom use are given.

Abstract Nowadays, as accepted as the era of information or digital, time has changed and has invited all people to a new world in which everybody must define himself. Avoiding from getting benefit from this human progress is useless; Rather, we must know this great technology best and adapt ourselves with its consequences. In fact, in many countries and among many nations there had been peopl...

background: human toxocariasis is contained in the list of neglected diseases. the infection occurs after ingestion of embryonated eggs in contaminated soil. the present study was carried out to estimate the extent of soil contamination with toxocara spp. eggs in the public places. methods: soil samples were collected randomly from 41 public places in various parts in and around of ardabil, ira...

Multimodal mobile interfaces require users to adopt new and possibly strange behaviors in public places. It is important to design these interfaces to account for the social restrictions of public settings. However, past research in multimodal interaction has primarily focused on issues of sensing and recognition rather than the investigation of user opinions and social factors that influence t...

Purpose – The purpose of this Design/methodology/approach – The article analyzes the role of the fiction known as the some of its conspicuous exemplars, and how its adaptation might affect attitudes and even prejudices about how to view life. Findings – Present and future are not always what one thought they could become. ‘‘What if?’’ also gives rise to endeavours in ‘‘science’’ fiction and str...

since, in the same vein as public spaces, urban green spaces play a significant role in establishing social interactions in the iranian cities, security concerns need to be taken more seriously in such places than other social environments, the insufficiency of which could diminish their functional capacity. this could in turn lead to a source of subsequent difficulties in urban spaces. therefo...

New wave public health places an emphasis on exhorting individuals to engage in healthy behaviour with good health being a signifier of virtuous moral standing, whereas poor health is often associated with personal moral failings. In effect, the medical is increasingly being collapsed into the moral. This approach is consistent with other aspects of contemporary neolibe...