The NeoMuseum in Yoshino, Japan is a prototype for a chidrens media museum, an experiment in collaborative research with the goal of creating a multimedia-based learning environment for children. The name NeoMuseurn reflects the goal of exploring new roles for childrens museums made possible by new educatlonal technologies. The purpose of the NeoMuseum is to design and develop socially shared e...

Our fundamental notions of childhood are socially constructed and change over time as documented by Calvert in her book, “Children in the House” [8]. As a result, it can be very difficult for designers of interactive media for children to distinguish between a specific group of childusers and current cultural representations of children, their remembrances of childhood and their personal experi...

To develop a method for cooperative human gait training, we investigated whether interactive rhythmic cues could improve the gait performance of Parkinson's disease patients. The interactive rhythmic cues ware generated based on the mutual entrainment between the patient's gait rhythms and the cue rhythms input to the patient while the patient walked. Previously, we found that the dynamic chara...

the presented study aimed at investigating the effect of foliar application of amino acids and nano particles and chelated iron on photosynthetic pigments and yield of potato. to this end a factorial experiment was carried out in the form of randomized complete block design with three replications in 2013, in the research field of natural resources institute in damavand, iran. the first factor ...

one of the main components of the stress system is hypothalamus- pituitary-adrenal (hpa) axis. acute activation of µ-opioid receptors increases the activity of the hpa axis, leading to release of acth and corticosterone. glucocorticoids can change behaviors, depend on age but there were no evidences about the interaction between age, opioid system and glucocorticoids. in this experiment, effect...