Visitor Intervention Research Articles

Automated Visitor Record System

As normally practiced, the information of visitor is recorded manually by either the visitor or the guard when the visitor arrives at the guard house. This manual process takes large amount of time and involves tedious works. Furthermore, it is prone to fraudulent information provided by visitors and occasionally interferes with guard’s actual job in securing the area. This paper aims to provide an automated solution to these aforementioned problems. We address these problems by replacing the existing manual way of recording visitor information by an automated and fully computerized system. The solution proposed uses Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID), smart card information retrieval as well as computer vision and image processing to record and manage visitors’ data. To evaluate the similarity between face images from camera and National Registration Identification Card (NRIC), we propose a method to find dissimilarity index between the faces. We found that the system minimizes the need for human interventions, improves the time required during recording of visitors’ information as well as efficiently manages and analyses visitors’ records. Additionally, our proposed method for finding face similarity yields a promising result of TPR = 0.914 and FPR = 0.140 when tested using publicly available face dataset called AR Dataset. The system is able to minimize the need for guard and visitor interventions, improves the time required during recording of visitors’ information especially for recurring visits and also capable of securely and efficiently manages and analyses visitors’ records.

Early childhood home visiting programme: factors contributing to success

This paper reports a study of the factors that public health nurses, home visitors and parents consider important for the success of an early childhood home visiting programme. The primary aim of early child home visiting programmes is to promote healthy and safe growth and development of infants and children in at-risk families. Few studies have focused on actual programme components which foster this outcome. The research was a descriptive, qualitative evaluation. Success of the programme was defined as positive changes in families which were seen as directly related to participation. The 58 participants were 24 public health nurses, 14 home visitors and 20 parents. One in-depth semistructured audio-taped interview was conducted with each participant between October 2003 and February 2004. All interviews were transcribed and analysed using open coding; themes and categories were developed and reviewed for congruence of coding. Participants discussed several factors that they considered important for the success of the programme: its particular characteristics, the programme activities and the healthcare providers. Components contributing to the success of early childhood home visiting programmes include a strength-based philosophy, voluntary enrollment of parents, regularly scheduled home visits, a curriculum to structure the home visitor's interventions, and careful attention to the selection, training, and supervision of home visitors.

Emotional abuse treatment and prevention, a specialist health visitor's intervention

Child Abuse ReviewVolume 7, Issue 1 p. 58-62 Case Study Emotional abuse treatment and prevention, a specialist health visitor's intervention Patricia Hancock, Corresponding Author Patricia Hancock Child Protection, Kidderminster Health Care TrustChild Protection, Kidderminster Health Centre, Bromsgrove Street, Kidderminster, Worcs DY10 1PG, UKSearch for more papers by this author Patricia Hancock, Corresponding Author Patricia Hancock Child Protection, Kidderminster Health Care TrustChild Protection, Kidderminster Health Centre, Bromsgrove Street, Kidderminster, Worcs DY10 1PG, UKSearch for more papers by this author First published: 04 December 1998 https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-0852(199801/02)7:1<58::AID-CAR359>3.0.CO;2-EAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume7, Issue1January/February 1998Pages 58-62 RelatedInformation