Affecting Young Children’s Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors for Ultraviolet Radiation Protection through the Internet of Things: A Quasi-Experimental Study

Theodosi, Sotiroula; Nicolaidou, Iolie

doi:10.3390/computers10110137

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“…Older students potentially have stronger views on events and venues represented in the digital tour, which are difficult to change as a result of a short interaction with the tool. In contrast, the literature supports that young children's attitudes can be positively affected even through relatively short term digital interventions at the primary education level [30], [31]. Therefore, there is support, both from the literature and from the present study's findings, for targeting young children in future, large-scale interventions attempting to resolve conflictual pasts and lead to social change through the use of virtual tours.…”

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Virtual Tours as Emerging Technologies to Engage Children and Youth with their Country’s Historical Conflicts

Nicolaidou

Zupančič²,

Fiedler³

et al. 2022

Int. J. Emerg. Technol. Learn.

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Virtual Reality (VR) is increasingly used for visiting historic places. Research on VR experiences in dark tourism (that focuses on mortality) focuses almost exclusively on adults. No studies were found that used virtual tours to engage children with their own country’s conflicts. The present study addresses this gap by designing and developing virtual tours in four cities of Europe with a troubled past. Virtual tours engage children and youth in historical conflicts using multi-perspective storytelling. The aim of this pre-test post-test comparative case study is to examine the change on students’ perceptions of their country’s troubled past after their interaction with a virtual tour of their capital. A secondary aim is to document students’ evaluation of the virtual tour. A questionnaire examining students’ perceptions was completed before and after students’ individual interaction with a virtual tour. Participants included 360 students (212 from Cyprus, 42 from Germany, 63 from Bosnia-Herzegovina, and 44 from Kosovo). Findings indicate a statistically significant positive change in perceptions of troubled pasts for primary/secondary students from Cyprus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Germany. Preliminary results are promising and indicate the effectiveness of virtual tours as tools that can have an effect on students’ perceptions of troubled pasts, particularly for children rather than young adults. Students’ evaluation of the virtual tours was positive, irrespectively of participants’ age, indicating high acceptability.

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Virtual Tours as Emerging Technologies to Engage Children and Youth with their Country’s Historical Conflicts

Nicolaidou

Zupančič²,

Fiedler³

et al. 2022

Int. J. Emerg. Technol. Learn.

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“…Data sources included questionnaires on UV knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors administered pre-and post-intervention. Preliminary results of this first pre-test post-test control group study with 31 participants were promising, as statistically significant learning gains, and positive behavioral changes were found only for the experimental group (Theodosi & Nicolaidou, 2021).…”

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“…For the study's second aim, a critical comparison was performed between activities included in Study 1 (Theodosi & Nicolaidou, 2021) and enhanced activities that will be included in its re-enactment in Study 2, in which a commercial e-learning platform (Nearpod) will be used so students can access their learning materials online and work at their own pace.…”

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An E-Learning Environment for Influencing Children's Attitudes Toward Ultraviolet Protection

2022

Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on E-Learning (EL 2022)

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This paper describes a work in progress to design and evaluate an e-learning intervention that utilizes the Internet of Things (IoT) to increase awareness of the dangers of ultraviolet (UV) radiation exposure and promote sun protection practices early in life. The authors' previous work in a pre-test post-test control group study (Study 1) involved children in using IoT devices to collect and analyze real-time UV radiation data. Preliminary data were promising in this small-scale study, but the latter did not use a validated instrument to measure children's UV knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors. This second study has a dual aim. First, it reports on the results of a systematic literature review that aimed to identify validated questionnaires that a) measure attitudes toward UV light protection, b) are appropriate for primary school, and c) are suitable for evaluating e-learning prevention interventions if they are used as a pre-test and post-test. Second, it describes how the intervention of Study 1 will be re-enacted through an e-learning platform that allows for deepening student understanding and engagement through gamification and allows for visualizing students' understanding in real-time.

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“…As we all know, the new network media has won widespread attention from the beginning of its birth, and has continuously developed into one of the key research objects. Literature through the research on the development of information technology after the 20th century, it is found that with the continuous development of informatization, the radiation effect of the Internet has gradually mapped to the global scope [1]. Literature regards the Internet as the main representative of the new media, analyzes and summarizes the decentralization influence of the Internet, and draws a series of conclusions [2].…”

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Art Design and Production Based on Artificial Intelligence and Improved Neural Network

Liao

2023

Preprint

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The times are developing and society is progressing. In recent years, the level of random science and technology has been continuously improved, and the application of artificial intelligence technology has become more and more common in people's lives. The further combination of artificial intelligence and art design has also largely optimized the methods and expressions of art design. This article takes the decentralization of art design in the era of artificial intelligence as the main research object, and conducts an in-depth discussion and analysis of the performance and causes of art design, aiming to study the influence of artificial intelligence technology on the development of human art design in the future. This article first takes the causes of the decentralization phenomenon produced by art design as the research object, and conducts a specific analysis of the development of art design, including the extension of art design related to artificial intelligence technology, and the aesthetics of neural network technology to the public And how popular culture promotes the decentralized change of art design. Secondly, we analyzed the function and role of neural network technology in art design, and found that it not only provides a basis for the decentralization of art design, but also plays an important role in many different aspects of art design. The influence of centralization and spatial decentralization. Then, we also analyzed the specific impact of neural network intelligent technology on customer groups and customer thinking, as well as its specific embodiment in the content of art design. In the end, we came to the conclusion that although the communication method of artificial intelligence is conducive to the personalized development of art design in many aspects, it is influenced by the mass media and the specific mode of communication in the process of use, resulting in artificial intelligence technology in art. There is great innovation ability in design. Therefore, for professional art designers, they should not only complete their own commercial art design tasks, but also make contributions and efforts for the prosperity of art on this basis.

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Affecting Young Children’s Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors for Ultraviolet Radiation Protection through the Internet of Things: A Quasi-Experimental Study

Cited by 9 publications

References 43 publications

Virtual Tours as Emerging Technologies to Engage Children and Youth with their Country’s Historical Conflicts

Virtual Tours as Emerging Technologies to Engage Children and Youth with their Country’s Historical Conflicts

An E-Learning Environment for Influencing Children's Attitudes Toward Ultraviolet Protection

Art Design and Production Based on Artificial Intelligence and Improved Neural Network

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