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No full textThe purpose of the design project was to examine the methodologies involved in the development
of a design solution to a given problem. Students worked in teams of five and worked with a client to
consultatively identify a problem, develop a strategy to meet the client’s needs and compose a proposal
for a solution. The team created a project management plan in the form of a Gantt chart, which was kept
up to date as the project evolved, up until the final day. The team was encouraged to think creatively,
using their individual backgrounds to enhance the group’s creative capacity. This required each member
to respect the diverse disciplines at play and to understand the ever-evolving roles of each member of the
group. The goal was to present a final deliverable to the client in a timely and professional manner.
The client in this project was Kidspace, a multidisciplinary pediatric therapy clinic located in San
Francisco, Californa. Kidspace provides occupational therapy, speech therapy, physical therapy and
psychotherapy. Their clients seek treatment for a broad range of child development challenges including
sensory processing disorders, Austism Spectrum Disorders, ADD/ADHD and a few neurological
disorders. The teams worked closely with the therapists to understand their perspectives and concerns and to identify the problem that the design team would attempt to solve.
Many of the children at Kidspace are sensitive to sensory feedback and are easily overstimulated
by a variety of sensory inputs. During the busier times and transitions at Kidspace, the high levels of
sensory input can create a difficult environment to have a productive therapy session. The goal of the
project is to design an environment to reduce auditory and visual stimulation throughout the facility.
A very thorough, human-centered design approach was followed, guided by the policies with
which the design consultative firm, IDEO, has become so successful. This process included facility and
interaction observations, large group brainstorming sessions, rapid prototyping, proposal analysis and
selection, refinement and implementation.
To address the issue of sensory reduction in Kidspace, the team inevitable designed three final
products, which were formally presented to the client four weeks after the first meeting. The first
deliverable was a working prototype of a partition that would be used to close off the gap in the wall
between the waiting room and the main hallway to reduces the sound travel between the two areas. The
second design was a working model of a door made of several overlapping 6” PVC strips. which provided
a safe alternative to a solid door and also reduces sound travel between the gyms The final deliverable
was a sound sensor implemented into a structure that hangs on the wall and provides feedback in the form
of LED lights to indicate the noise level of the room.
After the presentation, the client was very pleased with the products delivered, and it is likely
many of these designs will come to fruition within the facility in the near future
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No full textA collection of poetry that explores the different moods of life, framed by five sections, each introduced by a stanza from a work describing life as a free verse poem written by God
Maybe Elephants Can Dance: Two Decades of Progress in Delivering Long-Term Services and Supports in Ohio
Get PDFThis longitudinal study, initiated by the General Assembly in 1993 and continuously funded by the Ohio Department of Aging, tracks how long-term services and supports utilization has changed over the past two decades in Ohio
Keep the Change: Clusters of Faculty Opinion on Open Access
Get PDFThe authors discovered faculty opinions about open access by employing Q methodology, a research method combining qualitative and quantitative methods to analyze subjects' attitudes about a given topic. Q methodology, using three main steps, identifies and isolates opinion types. The first step is the collection of subjective statements, largely from qualitative interviews. The next step, called the Q-sort, involves subjects sorting these statements along a continuum. Finally, Q-sort results are analyzed using a statistical technique called factor analysis. Using specialized software, factor analysis generates clusters of opinions. In this Q study, factor analysis revealed three distinct factors that outlined clusters of faculty opinions about open access. The authors described these factors as “Evangelists,” “Pragmatists,” and “Traditionalists.” Each of these factors represents a group of faculty on Miami University’s Oxford campus who hold specific attitudes and opinions regarding open access. Implications for future library initiatives implementing open access programs, services, and policies are discussed, as are directions for additional research
An Orthodox Social Gospel in Late-Imperial Russia
Get PDFOn Sunday morning, 9 January 1905, 150,000 workers and their families marched from
various parts of St. Petersburg and converged upon the Winter Palace to present a “Most
Loyal and Humble Address” to tsar Nicholas II asking him to improve the conditions of
the workers. The marchers sang hymns and carried icons and crosses, and were led by a
Russian Orthodox priest, Father Georgii Gapon, resembling a religious procession more
than a labor demonstration. The workers, led by Gapon, believed in the benevolence of
the Tsar, the batiushka (“little father”), and that he would listen to their troubles and help
them. The day before, however, the government had ordered the march be cancelled and
posted 12,000 troops in the city to prevent the marchers from reaching the palace, while
Nicholas II had left Petersburg to spend the weekend at the suburban palace in Tsarskoe
Selo. As the first group of marchers converged upon the Narva Gates, troops opened
fire upon the unarmed crowd, killing forty and wounding hundreds. In other parts of the
city soldiers also attacked the marchers, culminating in the attack on a large crowd that
approached the Winter Palace in the afternoon. In all, some 150 people, including
women and children, were killed. That infamous day, known as Bloody Sunday,
destroyed the popular myth of the benevolent tsar and initiated two years of chaos,
strikes, and violence known as the Revolution of 1905, which nearly brought the regime
to its knees and forced it grudgingly to make significant concessions, above all the move
toward establishing a constitutional monarchy with the October Manifesto and the
Duma
Common Sense for Caring Organizations: Results from a Study of High-Performing Home Care Agencies and Nursing Homes
Get PDFThis study reports on results of a qualitative study of 21 high-performing Ohio nursing homes and home care agencies. The study focused on best practices for managing their direct care workforce to achieve high performance. The report includes the most prevalent practice themes as well as tips and management strategies
Bridging the Aging Network and Medical Community Survey: Care Transitions from Hospital to home
Get PDFThis report describes findings from a survey of Area Agencies on Aging regarding activities between the aging network and the medical community. This report focuses on organizations engaged in care transitions of older adults from hospital to home
Tell Me About Your Mother/s: A Genealogy of Contemporary Organizing in South Africa
No full textThe presentation examined the political and social strategies and the ethical percepts, which the African women had to go through. They survived migration and intervened in the shape and structure of the forces of involuntary migration and the construction of rural and urban spaces
The “Crossing Borders” Program: Increasing Intercultural Competency Via Structured Social Interactions
Get PDFIncreasing diversity in American college classrooms and recent trends toward globalization require professors to teach more creatively in order to encourage students’ face-to-face intercultural interactions and resulting competencies. At a commuter campus with a heterogeneous student population, a series of large-group activities and small-group dialogues between American and international students resulted in satisfaction and growth for a majority of American participants. Areas of self-reported growth primarily involved intercultural competencies, including knowledge of, attitudes toward, and skills when interacting with others from different cultures
Revolution Remixxx 2011: Protest Song Marocaine
Get PDFIn late 2010, those of us interested in the Middle East were surprised by persistent protests in Tunisia.
My family and I were evacuated from Cairo on February 2, 2011. I returned to Egypt on February 13,
and a week later, a major day of rage started the revolution in Morocco, with large protests breaking out
in all major cities and even many minor ones. Like millions, I avidly watched the music videos and
music clips that supported and resulted from the protests in Tunis and Cairo. In particular, I checked the
Internet for news from Morocco. I was unsurprised to see Moroccans taking part in massive protests. I
was also not surprised to see them using songs and chants. What did surprise me was the presence of
one song