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Healthful Technology: February 2011
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Monday, February 14, 2011. The Center for Disease control and Prevention offers the following guidelines. For people age 18-64: to engage in moderate activities for at least 2:30 a week, or vigorous activities for at least 1:15 a week, as well as muscle strengthening activities. Moderate activities include brisk walking and ballroom dancing, and vigorous activities include running and playing tennis. Physical activity yields benefits. And Sony’s Playstation Move. In addition to creating venues for physic...
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Healthful Technology: Aphasia
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011. My practicum project involved developing communication tools for an older adult with aphasia. I believe that researching literature on aphasia will give me a deeper understanding of my interactions with this older adult. I also hope that sharing this information will be useful for others. Aphasia is an acquired (meaning people are not born with it) language disorder that affects an individual’s ability to process and produce speech. WHY does aphasia happen? As aphasia is a comm...
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Healthful Technology: Sex (Female)
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Wednesday, February 9, 2011. According to the most recent report by the NSF. Women and technology have always had a complicated relationship. Vannevar Bush, one of the biggest names behind modern computing, viewed digital technology as a replacement for the women causing distractions in the workplace. We have certainly come a long way, but as the statistics above show, there is an enormous amount of gender inequality in engineering education. SWE) and Women in Science and Engineering (WISE). Simple templ...
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Healthful Technology: January 2011
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Monday, January 24, 2011. Langdon Winner writes in Mythinformation that increased use of computer technology will not lead automatically to societal benefits. While he seems to advocate some sort of organization to decide how technology should and should not be used, people have done some very great things with technology without any of Winner’s large scale rethinking. From an Australian Research University. Another study looked at the benefits of an online discussion group [2]. As for targeting ...Will ...
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Healthful Technology: Depression
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Monday, January 24, 2011. Langdon Winner writes in Mythinformation that increased use of computer technology will not lead automatically to societal benefits. While he seems to advocate some sort of organization to decide how technology should and should not be used, people have done some very great things with technology without any of Winner’s large scale rethinking. From an Australian Research University. Another study looked at the benefits of an online discussion group [2]. As for targeting ...Will ...
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Healthful Technology: Sedentary Lifestyle
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Monday, February 14, 2011. The Center for Disease control and Prevention offers the following guidelines. For people age 18-64: to engage in moderate activities for at least 2:30 a week, or vigorous activities for at least 1:15 a week, as well as muscle strengthening activities. Moderate activities include brisk walking and ballroom dancing, and vigorous activities include running and playing tennis. Physical activity yields benefits. And Sony’s Playstation Move. In addition to creating venues for physic...
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Healthful Technology: Autism
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011. Autism is a development disorder that most noticeably affects an individual's ability to socialize and communicate with others. According to the NIH. Symptoms typically seen in children with autism include repeated movements, slow language development, and apparent lack of empathy. Takes some of the work load off therapists by using computers to adjust therapy based on client progress [1]. The second direction involves using technology in a way that lets people with autism expr...
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