OBJECTIVES Personal lifestyle, including diet, exercise, and sleep, might have an impact on work engagement, though previous studies have not focused on these relationships. The aim of this study was to examine whether dietary intake of fish, regular exercise, sufficient sleep, abstinence from alcohol, and abstinence from tobacco were positively associated with work engagement. METHODS We rec...

Potentialities of skills in design are intriguing. Skills open up new perceptions of the world, transform human understanding and engagement with the world itself. Our explorations suggest that leveraging existing designer's skills and training for new skills might remarkably contribute in designing for richness of meaning. We developed several skills-based techniques and validated them through...

This paper presents an approach to interactive narrative design that utilizes the programming capabilities of Macromedia Flash to create web-based “storytelling edit systems” that allow the user to select and construct a narrative experience from a set of provided data ingredients. In creating such an interactive system, designers must delineate audience engagement in traditional narrative, whe...

This paper reports on an action research project involving a complete re-design of a module in Educational Studies undertaken by students in the first year of a B.Ed degree in a university in Scotland. Innovative use of a personal learning environment (PLE), the PebblePad E-Portfolio System, resulted in radical changes in teaching, learning and assessment and produced significant gains in learn...

Direct to consumer genetic testing has become substantially more accessible to the average person in the last decade, providing those who seek it with a tremendous amount of important and very personal information. Genetic data is a compelling vein of personal informatics for HCI research because, unlike other varieties that sample data at regular intervals, genomic data is only collected once ...

BACKGROUND There are high rates of treatment non-completion for personality disorder and those who do not complete treatment have poorer outcomes. A goal-based motivational interview may increase service users' readiness to engage with therapy and so enhance treatment retention. We conducted a feasibility study to inform the design of a randomized controlled trial. The aims were to test the fea...