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Informatics, Volume 7, Issue 4

2020 December - 20 articles

Cover Story: Fire in the operating room (OR) while implementing anesthesia is a high-risk, low-frequency event that can have untoward patient outcomes. Mixed reality simulation gives healthcare professionals an opportunity to prepare themselves through a replicable simulated environment. This study evaluated technical and non-technical skills of student registered nurse anesthetists who participated in a mixed reality simulation of OR fires using Magic Leap OneTM headsets. Participants demonstrated a strong performance of technical and non-technical skills in the management of a simulated OR fire. Additional research testing applications of mixed reality in health professions education is warranted. View this paper.
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Articles (20)

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,531 Views
21 Pages

Using Mobiles to Monitor Respiratory Diseases

  • Fatma Zubaydi,
  • Assim Sagahyroon,
  • Fadi Aloul,
  • Hasan Mir and
  • Bassam Mahboub

In this work, a mobile application is developed to assist patients suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or Asthma that will reduce the dependency on hospital and clinic based tests and enable users to better manage their diseas...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
10,052 Views
23 Pages

A Review of Hyperscanning and Its Use in Virtual Environments

  • Amit Barde,
  • Ihshan Gumilar,
  • Ashkan F. Hayati,
  • Arindam Dey,
  • Gun Lee and
  • Mark Billinghurst

Hyperscanning is a technique which simultaneously records the neural activity of two or more people. This is done using one of several neuroimaging methods, such as electroencephalography (EEG), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and funct...

  • Review
  • Open Access
93 Citations
13,339 Views
18 Pages

The Rural Digital Divide in the Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Europe—Recommendations from a Scoping Review

  • Miguel-Ángel Esteban-Navarro,
  • Miguel-Ángel García-Madurga,
  • Tamara Morte-Nadal and
  • Antonia-Isabel Nogales-Bocio

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the digital vulnerability of many citizens of the rural world. This article identifies and analyzes the proposals made by academic literature to overcome the digital divide in the European rural world for the five-y...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,206 Views
19 Pages

The use of data visualization is increasing; however, there is little empirical explanation for how it supports users. Our goal in this paper is to deepen our understanding of the role of interactive visualizations in a particular context of decision...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
6,895 Views
22 Pages

Twitter enables millions of active users to send and read concise messages on the internet every day. Yet some people use Twitter to propagate violent and threatening messages resulting in cyberbullying. Previous research has focused on whether cyber...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,420 Views
16 Pages

Digital Educational Support Groups Administered through WhatsApp Messenger Improve Health-Related Knowledge and Health Behaviors of New Adolescent Mothers in the Dominican Republic: A Multi-Method Study

  • Samantha Stonbraker,
  • Elizabeth Haight,
  • Alana Lopez,
  • Linda Guijosa,
  • Eliza Davison,
  • Diane Bushley,
  • Kari Aquino Peguero,
  • Vivian Araujo,
  • Luz Messina and
  • Mina Halpern

(1) Background: In limited-resource settings such as the Dominican Republic, many factors contribute to poor health outcomes experienced by adolescent mothers, including insufficient support and/or health knowledge. In response, we designed a digital...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,449 Views
24 Pages

Investigation of Combining Logitboost(M5P) under Active Learning Classification Tasks

  • Vangjel Kazllarof,
  • Stamatis Karlos and
  • Sotiris Kotsiantis

Active learning is the category of partially supervised algorithms that is differentiated by its strategy to combine both the predictive ability of a base learner and the human knowledge so as to exploit adequately the existence of unlabeled data. It...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,364 Views
18 Pages

Deep Learning Model for Industrial Leakage Detection Using Acoustic Emission Signal

  • Masoumeh Rahimi,
  • Alireza Alghassi,
  • Mominul Ahsan and
  • Julfikar Haider

Intelligent fault diagnosis methods have replaced time consuming and unreliable human analysis, increasing anomaly detection efficiency. Deep learning models are clear cut techniques for this purpose. This paper’s fundamental purpose is to auto...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,451 Views
23 Pages

An Affective and Cognitive Toy to Support Mood Disorders

  • Esperanza Johnson,
  • Iván González,
  • Tania Mondéjar,
  • Luis Cabañero-Gómez,
  • Jesús Fontecha and
  • Ramón Hervás

Affective computing is a branch of artificial intelligence that aims at processing and interpreting emotions. In this study, we implemented sensors/actuators into a stuffed toy mammoth, which allows the toy to have an affective and cognitive basis to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,957 Views
15 Pages

Does SEO Matter for Startups? Identifying Insights from UGC Twitter Communities

  • José Ramón Saura,
  • Ana Reyes-Menendez and
  • Chris Van Nostrand

In the present study, we analyzed User Generated Content (UGC) to measure the importance of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for startups. For this purpose, we used several clustering algorithms to identify user communities on Twitter. The dataset co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,985 Views
13 Pages

Mapping International Civic Technologies Platforms

  • Aelita Skaržauskienė and
  • Monika Mačiulienė

The new communication paradigm supported by Information and Communication Technology (ICT) puts end-users at the center of innovation processes, thereby shifting the emphasis from technology to people. Citizen centric approaches such as New Public Go...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,473 Views
31 Pages

Toward Evaluation of the Subjective Experience of a General Class of User-Controlled, Robot-Mediated Rehabilitation Technologies for Children with Neuromotor Disability

  • Manon Maitland Schladen,
  • Kevin Cleary,
  • Yiannis Koumpouros,
  • Reza Monfaredi,
  • Tyler Salvador,
  • Hadi Fooladi Talari,
  • Jacob Slagle,
  • Catherine Coley,
  • Staci Kovelman and
  • Sarah Helen Evans
  • + 1 author

Technological advances in game-mediated robotics provide an opportunity to engage children with cerebral palsy (CP) and other neuromotor disabilities in more frequent and intensive therapy by making personalized, programmed interventions available 24...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,728 Views
25 Pages

Traditional philological methods in Roman legal scholarship such as close reading and strict juristic reasoning have analysed law in extraordinary detail. Such methods, however, have paid less attention to the empirical characteristics of legal texts...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
9,025 Views
29 Pages

The concept of edge caching provision in emerging 5G and beyond mobile networks is a promising method to deal both with the traffic congestion problem in the core network, as well as reducing latency to access popular content. In that respect, end us...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,228 Views
27 Pages

Drug interactions are an important source of medical error and a topic of particular interest to patient audiences. Patients must be informed to be able to participate in decision-making affecting their health. This paper explores the availability of...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,800 Views
10 Pages

Towards a New Paradigm of Federated Electronic Health Records in Palestine

  • Carol El Jabari,
  • Mario Macedo and
  • Mohanad O. Al-jabari

While efforts are underway to create a sound system of electronic health records in Palestinian health institutions, there remain obstacles and challenges. Given modern day demands on health systems, we propose a federated electronic health system ba...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,531 Views
13 Pages

Fire in the Operating Room: Use of Mixed Reality Simulation with Nurse Anesthesia Students

  • Linda Wunder,
  • Nicole A. Gonzaga Gomez,
  • Juan E. Gonzalez,
  • Greta Mitzova-Vladinov,
  • Max Cacchione,
  • Jampierre Mato,
  • Cynthia L. Foronda and
  • Jeffrey A. Groom

Background: The occurrence of a fire when implementing anesthesia is a high-risk, low-frequency event. The operating room is a high-stakes environment that has no room for error. Mixed reality simulation may be a solution to better prepare healthcare...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,500 Views
10 Pages

This research work employs theoretical and empirical expert knowledge in constructing an agglomerative parallel processing algorithm that performs spatio-temporal clustering upon seismic data. This is made possible by exploiting the spatial and tempo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,404 Views
12 Pages

Tree-Based Algorithm for Stable and Efficient Data Clustering

  • Hasan Aljabbouli,
  • Abdullah Albizri and
  • Antoine Harfouche

The K-means algorithm is a well-known and widely used clustering algorithm due to its simplicity and convergence properties. However, one of the drawbacks of the algorithm is its instability. This paper presents improvements to the K-means algorithm...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
13,960 Views
35 Pages

Modern Scientific Visualizations on the Web

  • Loraine Franke and
  • Daniel Haehn

Modern scientific visualization is web-based and uses emerging technology such as WebGL (Web Graphics Library) and WebGPU for three-dimensional computer graphics and WebXR for augmented and virtual reality devices. These technologies, paired with the...

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