Response to mental health treatment varies highly among refugee patients. Research has not established which factors relate to differences in outcome. This study is a follow-up of Opaas and Hartmann's (2013) Rorschach Inkblot Method (RIM; Exner, 2003) pretreatment study of traumatized refugees, where 2 RIM principal components, Trauma Response and Reality Testing, were found descriptive of part...

Today’s Small and Medium-sized Enterprises are confronted with the IT-reality, the resource-reality and document-reality. Introduction of software systems and thus performing software testing have long become an indispensible necessity for a firm’s survival. A number of suggestions relevant to the practice are advanced by this paper, targeting at conducting successful software testing. A minima...

This paper presents an overview of a study of 24 people who used an augmented reality game called TimeWarp. The paper initially discusses the game and evaluation methods chosen, it then explores emerging issues from the evaluation which are applicable to other augmented reality games and how existing user testing methods require further improvements in order to capture data relevant to the issues.

This paper describes the implementation of an automatically generated virtual storyteller from fairy tale texts which were previously annotated for emotion. In order to gain insight into the effectiveness of our virtual storyteller we recorded face, body and voice of an amateur actor and created an actor animation video of one of the fairy tales. We also got the actor’s annotation of the fairy ...

During the last few years, virtual reality (VR) has been increasingly implemented in the neurosurgical practice. The scope of this paper is to briefly outline the educational role of this novel technology in training surgeons. At the same time, the ability of VR workstations such as the Dextroscope® to consistently simulate the surgical trajectory to the lesion-target is highlighted. The author...

This paper investigates the use of virtual reality (VR) technologies to facilitate the analysis of plant biological data in distinctive steps in the application pipeline. Reconstructed three-dimensional biological models (primary polygonal models) transferred to a virtual environment support scientists’ collaborative exploration of biological datasets so that they obtain Digital Peer Publishing...

Social groups capable of functioning in an agent-like way are capable of constructing new social things (such as social institutions) by performative acceptance. As groups can function only via their members, we can say that it in the last analysis is the members’ collective acceptance qua members of a group that creates new items into the social world and maintains previously constructed items...

Parental influence on children’s development is commonly accepted as essential, while the way how parents affect preschool students’ information and communication technology (ICT) use at school needs a further exploration. This exploratory study is aimed to contribute to a better understanding of parental influence on children’s Augmented Reality (AR) use at preschool education by analyzing int...