Experiential Feedback Research Articles

Exploration of Virtual Reality Technology Enabling Diversified Teaching Models of Civics and Politics

Abstract The wide application of virtual reality technology has brought opportunities for teaching ideology and politics, breaking traditional education’s time and space limitations. This paper proposes an automatic three-dimensional modeling technology model, combined with computer vision camera imaging principles, to optimize the amount of data and improve optimization efficiency. And on this basis, it further proposes the Civics virtual scene construction technology, combined with the improved QEM grid simplification algorithm of edge segmentation, to optimize the virtual scene by simplifying the complex three-dimensional grid model. The experimental group’s students have shown good acceptance of this teaching method when teaching Civics in VR venues. In the cognitive and knowledge level of Civics learning, there is a significant difference between the experimental group and the control group in the dimensions of value identity and knowledge retention (P<0.05), and the mean value in the dimension of value identity is as high as 4.55, which is a very significant difference from the control class (P<0.01). And in the experiential feedback of Civics learning, the students in the experimental group have a greater sense of scene realism than the students in the control group (P<0.01), a stronger sense of realism of the interactive experience in learning (P<0.05), a higher degree of concentration in learning (P<0.01), and a more minor degree of interference by the external environment (P<0.01).

Research on Evaluation Index System of Teacher Satisfaction for Chinese Digital Educational Platforms

In recent years, China's digital educational platforms have experienced rapid growth, becoming crucial tools in teaching. However, their success doesn't solely rely on their technology and features; it crucially hinges on the level of acceptance and satisfaction among teachers. Despite significant attention in this field, in-depth research into teacher satisfaction with Chinese digital educational platforms remains insufficient. This study aims to comprehensively investigate and analyze the factors influencing teacher satisfaction towards these platforms, exploring teachers' attitudes, usage patterns, and experiential feedback across different platforms. The survey covers five key indicators: personalized support, resource quality, user experience, functionality, and teaching effectiveness. Through the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and consistency checks, an evaluation system for teacher satisfaction with digital educational platforms was established, offering guidance and recommendations for platform optimization and improved teaching quality. Weight judgment for various indicators highlights the importance of resource practicality, user emotional experience, student engagement, and teaching quality as critical factors.

Development and Feasibility of a Group Tele-Exercise Program for Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury.

More than 50% of individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) report no regular exercise due to numerous barriers to participation. Tele-exercise services offer viable solutions to reduce barriers. However, limited evidence for SCI-specific tele-exercise programs is available. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of a synchronous group tele-exercise program designed for individuals with SCI. Explanatory sequential mixed-methods design assessed feasibility of a synchronous 2-month biweekly group tele-exercise program for individuals with SCI. Numeric measures of feasibility were first collected (recruitment rate, sample features, retention, attendance), followed by postprogram interviews with participants. Thematic analysis of experiential feedback elaborated on numeric findings. Eleven volunteers (ages = 49.5 ± 16.7 years) with SCI (range: 2.7-33.0 years) enrolled within 2 weeks of recruitment initiation. Retention was 100% retention at program completion. Median number of live classes attended per participant was 10 (62.5%). Participants described that attendance and satisfaction were facilitated by program-specific features including coinstruction by instructors with SCI-specific knowledge and lived experience, as well as group structure. Participants reported increased exercise knowledge, confidence, and motivation. This study demonstrated feasibility of a synchronous group tele-exercise class for individuals with SCI. Key features facilitating participation include class length, frequency, coleadership by individuals familiar with SCI and exercise instruction, and group motivation. These findings begin to examine a viable tele-service strategy that could be employed as a bridge among rehabilitation specialists, community fitness instructors, and clients with SCI to increase physical activity access and behavior.Video Abstract available for more insights from the authors (see the Video, Supplemental Digital Content 1 available at: http://links.lww.com/JNPT/A442).

To Zoom or not: Diverging responses to privacy and security risks

During the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lock-down, digital platforms like Zoom became essential for remote work. Yet at the same time, substantial security and privacy risks made the headlines. Using the lenses of Naturalistic Decision-making and the Theory of Multilevel Information Privacy, we find diverging responses to well-documented security risks of Zoom use in educational environments. We identify-three distinct response patterns, which we name the ‘Agnostic’, the ‘Pragmatic’ and the ‘Sceptic’, and show how the interplay of the salient social identity, personal privacy norms, and the privacy calculus guides the dynamic of privacy decision-making in light of experiential feedback, and the developing public discourse about security risks. We provide empirical evidence for multilevel decision-making and highlight the contextual and social nature of privacy decision-making about platform mode of use for remote work.

Contamination of planktonic food webs in the Mediterranean Sea: Setting the frame for the MERITE-HIPPOCAMPE oceanographic cruise (spring 2019)

This paper looks at experiential feedback and the technical and scientific challenges tied to the MERITE-HIPPOCAMPE cruise that took place in the Mediterranean Sea in spring 2019. This cruise proposes an innovative approach to investigate the accumulation and transfer of inorganic and organic contaminants within the planktonic food webs. We present detailed information on how the cruise worked, including 1) the cruise track and sampling stations, 2) the overall strategy, based mainly on the collection of plankton, suspended particles and water at the deep chlorophyll maximum, and the separation of these particles and planktonic organisms into various size fractions, as well as the collection of atmospheric deposition, 3) the operations performed and material used at each station, and 4) the sequence of operations and main parameters analysed. The paper also provides the main environmental conditions that were prevailing during the campaign. Lastly, we present the types of articles produced based on work completed by the cruise that are part of this special issue.

Experience-driven recalibration of learning from surprising events

Different environments favor different patterns of adaptive learning. A surprising event that in one context would accelerate belief updating might, in another context, be downweighted as a meaningless outlier. Here, we investigated whether people would spontaneously regulate the influence of surprise on learning in response to event-by-event experiential feedback. Across two experiments, we examined whether participants performing a perceptual judgment task under spatial uncertainty (n = 29, n = 63) adapted their patterns of predictive gaze according to the informativeness or uninformativeness of surprising events in their current environment. Uninstructed predictive eye movements exhibited a form of metalearning in which surprise came to modulate event-by-event learning rates in opposite directions across contexts. Participants later appropriately readjusted their patterns of adaptive learning when the statistics of the environment underwent an unsignaled reversal. Although significant adjustments occurred in both directions, performance was consistently superior in environments in which surprising events reflected meaningful change, potentially reflecting a bias towards interpreting surprise as informative and/or difficulty ignoring salient outliers. Our results provide evidence for spontaneous, context-appropriate recalibration of the role of surprise in adaptive learning.

Military Medical Provider Perspectives During the New York COVID-19 Response.

The response to the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic in New York City (NYC) included unprecedented support from the DoD-a response limited primarily to medical and public health response on domestic soil with intact infrastructure. This study seeks to identify the common perspectives, experiences, and challenges of DoD personnel participating in this historic response. This is a phenomenological qualitative study of 16 military health care providers who deployed to NYC in March 2020. This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board at the USU (No. DBS.2020.123). All participants served on either the United States Naval Ship Comfort or at the Javits Center. We conducted semi-structured interviews exploring the participants' experiences while deployed to NYC. These interview scripts were then independently coded by five research team members. We identified four common themes and 12 subthemes from the participants' responses. The themes (subthemes) were lack of preparation (unfamiliar mission and inadequate resources); confusion about integration with civilian health care (widespread, dynamic situation, and NYC overwhelmed), communication challenges (overall, misunderstanding and miscommunication resulting in tension, and patient handoffs); and adaptation and success (general, military-civilian liaison service, positive experience, and military support necessity). This study provides unique insight into the DoD's initial response to the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic in NYC. Using this experiential feedback from the DoD's pandemic responders could aid planners in improving the rapidity, effectiveness, and safety of military and civilian health care system integrations that may arise in the future.

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Improving self-awareness of prospective memory function after TBI using experiential feedback on a board game activity: An observational study

ABSTRACT This study investigated whether experiential and video feedback on performance of prospective memory (PM) tasks embedded within a board game activity improved self-awareness of PM function in adults with moderate-severe traumatic brain injury. An observational pre–post study design with 26 participants from a larger trial of a 6-session PM rehabilitation programme. Sessions 3 and 4 included a board game activity with embedded time-, event-, and activity-based PM tasks. Verbal feedback was provided by therapists during the game and video feedback afterwards. Self-ratings of performance were used to divide the sample into under-estimators (n = 7), accurate estimators (n = 9) and over-estimators (n = 10) of actual PM performance. The discrepancy between self- and therapist ratings of PM performance was measured before and after the game, and following video feedback, and compared between timepoints using non-parametric statistics. Post-task self-evaluations were more accurate than pre-task self-evaluations for the under- and over-estimator groups. Under-estimators showed significant improvement in accuracy of ratings for activity-based PM. Over-estimators showed improvement for event-based PM. Further improvements after video feedback were not significant. The board game activity provided a vehicle for experiential feedback and a means of engaging both those with impaired self-awareness and heightened self-awareness of PM in cognitive rehabilitation.

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Integrating Citizen Experiences in Cultural Heritage Archives: Requirements, State of the Art, and Challenges

Digital archives of memory institutions are typically concerned with the cataloguing of artefacts of artistic, historical, and cultural value. Recently, new forms of citizen participation in cultural heritage have emerged, producing a wealth of material spanning from visitors’ experiential feedback on exhibitions and cultural artefacts to digitally mediated interactions like the ones happening on social media platforms. Citizen curation is proposed in the context of the European project SPICE (Social Participation, Cohesion, and Inclusion through Cultural Engagement) as a methodology for producing, collecting, interpreting, and archiving people’s responses to cultural objects, with the aim of favouring the emergence of multiple, sometimes conflicting, viewpoints and motivating users and memory institutions to reflect upon them. We argue that citizen curation urges to rethink the nature of computational infrastructures supporting data management of memory institutions, bringing novel challenges that include issues of distribution, authoritativeness, interdependence, privacy, and rights management. To approach these issues, we survey relevant literature toward a distributed, Linked Data infrastructure, with a focus on identifying the roles and requirements involved in such an infrastructure. We show how existing research can contribute significantly in facing the challenges raised by citizen curation and discuss challenges and opportunities from the socio-technical standpoint.

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Experience in a Climate Simulator: Influence of Probability Function and Feedback on Decisions Against Climate Change

Research indicates that people continue to exhibit “wait-and-see” preferences toward climate change, despite constant attempts to raise awareness about its cataclysmic effects. Experiencing climatic catastrophes via simulation tools has been found to affect the perception of people regarding climate change and promote pro-environmental behaviors. However, not much is known about how experiential feedback and the probability of climate change in a simulation influence the decisions of people. We developed a web-based tool called Interactive Climate Change Simulator (ICCS) to study the impact of different probabilities of climate change and the availability of feedback on the monetary actions (adaptation or mitigation) taken by individuals. A total of 160 participants from India voluntarily played ICCS across four between-subject conditions (N = 40 in each condition). The conditions differed based on the probability of climate change (low or high) and availability of feedback (absent or present). Participants made mitigation and adaptation decisions in ICCS over multiple years and faced monetary consequences of their decisions. There was a significant increase in mitigation actions against climate change when the feedback was present compared to when it was absent. The mitigation and adaptation investments against climate change were not significantly affected by the probability of climate change. The interaction between probability of climate consequences and availability of feedback was significant: In the presence of feedback, the high probability of climate change resulted in higher mitigation and adaptation investments against climate change. Overall, the experience gained in the ICCS tool helped alleviate peoples' “wait-and-see” preferences and increased the monetary investments to counter climate change. Simulation tools like ICCS have the potential to increase people's understanding of climatic disasters and can act as a useful aid for educationalists and policymakers.

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Implementation of a Mental Health Screening Tool at an Adult Homeless Shelter Student-Run Free Clinic in Arizona

Background: Mental health conditions are prevalent in people experiencing homelessness. This population may seek care in student-run free clinics (SRFCs), but screening for mental health conditions may not be consistent in this setting. The primary objective of our study was to implement a screening tool and determine the gap in identifying mental health conditions between History and Physical (H&P) examinations and the new screening tool. Secondary objectives were to assess its impact on patient volume and workflow.
 Methods: Adult patients at a homeless shelter-based SRFC completed a mental health screening survey, separate from acute-care visits, aimed at identifying “high-risk” mental health conditions using validated questionnaires for identifying domestic violence, alcohol use, depression, anxiety, and mood disorders. Chart review was conducted to identify concordance between patients who screened positive for a high-risk condition using the survey and those with a high-risk condition documented in the acute-care H&P. Visit volume was tabulated and compared between the pre- and post-intervention periods using a t-test. A survey for volunteers was used to gather experiential feedback.
 Results: Of 354 patients treated at Central Arizona Shelter Services, 123 (34.7%) were evaluated by the research team. Sixty (48.8%) of screened patients were identified as high-risk for at least one mental health condition through the screening tool, and 26 (43.3%) charts were reviewed. Of the patients that were screened as high-risk and reviewed, 15 (57.7%) were not documented as high-risk in the acute-care visit H&P. The clinic volume averaged 11 patients, regardless of whether screening occurred during clinic (p = 0.95). Of clinic volunteers, 191 (97.4%) reported no noticeable impact on clinic operations.
 Conclusions: The screening survey identified more cases of mental health conditions than the previous standard medical interview. There were no adverse effects on the clinic workflow.

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Making the Trade in the National Basketball Association (NBA): A Research Case Exploring Like-Kind Exchange Treatment Post Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

ABSTRACTThe primary aim of this activity is to explore tax issues related to an exchange of non-financial assets. Students are presented with a case that involves a fictional trade of players between two teams in the NBA. Using a trade date of January 1, 2018, students are presented with the opportunity to explore the treatment of a non-financial asset like-kind exchange post the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. In addition, students are challenged to determine the definition of fair market value and how its calculation could have a substantial impact on the finances of a professional basketball team. Data gathered from pre- and post-questionnaires, including both objective measures and student experiential feedback, support the usage of this activity. Results show that this case increased students' ability to understand and summarize relevant information from a complex set of facts, while also growing their tax knowledge and tax research skills.