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    Virtual reality: Theoretical basis, practical applications

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    Virtual reality (VR) is a powerful multimedia visualization technique offering a range of mechanisms by which many new experiences can be made available. This paper deals with the basic nature of VR, the technologies needed to create it, and its potential, especially for helping disabled people. It also offers an overview of some examples of existing VR systems

    The Self Organised Learning Environment (SOLE) School Support Pack.

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    This document is designed to support the implementation of Sugata Mitraā€™s Self Organised Learning Environment (SOLE) into multiple school contexts. It contains ā€˜whole schoolā€™ related information for Head Teachers and senior staff in addition to teaching and learning support for teachers and support staff. A kindle version of Sugata Mitra's "Beyond the Hole in the Wall: Discover the Power of Self-Organized Learning" is available here http://goo.gl/iaL4B

    Childā€“parent interaction in relation to road safety education : Part 2 ā€“ main report

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    ā€¢ Children and young people are particularly vulnerable road users. ā€¢ Child pedestrian injury rates are poor compared with the rest of Europe. ā€¢ The factors that impact on childrenā€™s road safety and their capability in traffic are numerous, multi-faceted and complex. ā€¢ ā€¢ The systematic review conducted by Cattan et al. (2008) as the initial phase of this study shows that: ā€¢ parents see themselves as being responsible for developing their childrenā€™s road safety awareness and skills; ā€¢ holding hands is the most common road-crossing interaction between parents and children; ā€¢ adults rarely make use of road-crossing events to give oral instructions; ā€¢ few parents and children are consistent in their road-crossing behaviour; ā€¢ roadside training by volunteer parents for groups of children can lead to significant improvements in childrenā€™s road safety behaviour; ā€¢ belief in fate seems to influence the likelihood of parents using restraints, such as seat belts or car seats, with their children; and ā€¢ parentsā€™ understanding of the childā€™s perspective in carrying out road safety tasks and their motivation to actively involve their child in making decisions at the roadside can be improved through training. ā€¢ Social Cognitive Theory (Bandura, 1986) suggests that the modelling role of parents can make a significant contribution to childrenā€™s learning about road use and their development of traffic competence whether or not parents are aware of this. ā€¢ The main aim of this study was to explore the way parents influence children and young people aged 0ā€“16 years to be safer road users. ā€¢ This study included children and young people aged 5ā€“16 and parents of children aged 0ā€“16 years old

    Promoting Bicycle Commuter Safety, Research Report 11-08

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    We present an overview of the risks associated with cycling to emphasize the need for safety. We focus on the application of frameworks from social psychology to education, one of the 5 Esā€”engineering, education, enforcement, encouragement, and evaluation. We use the structure of the 5 Es to organize information with particular attention to engineering and education in the literature review. Engineering is essential because the infrastructure is vital to protecting cyclists. Education is emphasized since the central focus of the report is safety

    MIXED-USE SAFETY ON RURAL FACILITIES IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST: Consideration of Vehicular, Non-Traditional, and Non-Motorized Users

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    In the United States, one in 12 households do not own a personal automobile and approximately 13% of those who are old enough to drive do not. Trips by these individuals are being made in one of many other possible modes, creating the need to ā€œshare spaceā€ between many forms of travel. The goal of this project is to: improve safety and minimize the dangers for all transportation mode types while traveling in mixed-use environments on rural facilities through the development and use of engineering and education safety measures. To that end, this report documents three specific efforts by the project team. First, a comprehensive literature review of mixed-use safety issues with consideration of non-motorized and non-traditional forms of transportation. Second, a novel analysis of trauma registry data. Third, development, execution and analysis of the Pacific Northwest Transportation Survey geared toward understanding safety perceptions of mixed-use users. Most notably, findings indicate that ATVs (and similar non-traditional-type vehicles) are used on or near roads 24% of the time and snowmachines are used on or near roads 23% of the time. There are significantly more (twice as many) ATV-related on-road traumas in connected places than isolated places in Alaska and three times more traumas in highway connected places than in secondary road connected places. Comparably, bicycles had 449 on-road traumas between 2004 and 2011 whereas ATVs had 352 on-road traumas. Users of all modes who received formalized training felt safer in mixed-use environments than those who reported having no training at all

    The Emerging Internet of Things Marketplace From an Industrial Perspective: A Survey

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    The Internet of Things (IoT) is a dynamic global information network consisting of internet-connected objects, such as Radio-frequency identification (RFIDs), sensors, actuators, as well as other instruments and smart appliances that are becoming an integral component of the future internet. Over the last decade, we have seen a large number of the IoT solutions developed by start-ups, small and medium enterprises, large corporations, academic research institutes (such as universities), and private and public research organisations making their way into the market. In this paper, we survey over one hundred IoT smart solutions in the marketplace and examine them closely in order to identify the technologies used, functionalities, and applications. More importantly, we identify the trends, opportunities and open challenges in the industry-based the IoT solutions. Based on the application domain, we classify and discuss these solutions under five different categories: smart wearable, smart home, smart, city, smart environment, and smart enterprise. This survey is intended to serve as a guideline and conceptual framework for future research in the IoT and to motivate and inspire further developments. It also provides a systematic exploration of existing research and suggests a number of potentially significant research directions.Comment: IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing 201
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