Out And About 7/31/2022

It was good to be out and about again today. I visited the gym then made some stops.

I found some interesting research on outdoor spaces:

Outdoor blue spaces, human health and well-being: A systematic review of quantitative studies
By: Mireia Gascon, Wilma Zijlema, Cristina Vert, Mathew P. White, Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1438463917302699

"A growing body of literature suggests that natural outdoor environments might help reduce stress, promote physical activity and social relationships and potentially improve human health and well-being."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Social Media and Mental Health Disorders

This is an interesting research question:

How could monitoring the language used by social media users help with early detection of mental disorders?

(It is from the paper: An emotion and cognitive based analysis of mental health disorders from social media data, By: Ana-Sabina Uban, Berta Chulvi, Paolo Rosso, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167739X21001825).

To research this question, the researcher needs some (maybe expert) knowledge of psychiatry. I do not have this knowledge. I think I need to partner with an expert to conduct this research. I have some ideas, but anyone interested?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lake

I was at the lake this morning (the lake that is close to my old Running Deer Way address & the lake used in my article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140819111220-6733373-inspiration-from-a-lake-in-maryland/).
I am a little tired these days but still trying to get things done.
I joined a gym to lose weight, but the energy to exercise is lacking. I need to lose a lot of weight though.

Pictures from the lake:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Papers On Cell Phone Data Collection

I looked for articles related to my study on cell phone data collection (I am still seeking funding). I found some good ones. Three examples are:

Your privacy for a discount? Exploring the willingness to share personal data for personalized offers
By: Frode Alfnes, Ole Christian Wasenden
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030859612200012X

A process-oriented approach to respecting privacy in the context of mobile phone tracking
By: Gabriella M Harari
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X19301642

Capturing location-privacy preferences: quantifying accuracy and user-burden tradeoffs
By: Michael Benisch, Patrick Gage Kelley, Norman Sadeh & Lorrie Faith Cranor
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00779-010-0346-0

I am thinking of writing a literature review for publishing.
This is related to decision-making, but is also privacy and mobile phones - additional topics.

Posts On Journal Articles

I found some interesting journal articles that informed me of issues and made me think of "possibilities." I wrote about them in LinkedIn. Here are the posts:

Post 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My issue today: automation. Just yesterday, I wrote that systems will be assisting with the creation of diagrams in software development (see post: https://fahmeenaodetta.blogspot.com/2022/07/change.html). In past jobs, I have been praised for diagrams I created. I understand why people would resist automation.

I did not realize that automation is an issue for hand hygiene. I found an article that argues: "Human observation is the gold standard for measuring compliance, but its utility is increasingly being questioned with calls for the use of video monitoring approaches" (see article here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0196655322001511). This seems like a valid argument.

Did you see my proposal for a study on hand hygiene compliance monitoring and its effects on performance and employee satisfaction? Two of the research questions are:

RQ1: Do technology solutions that monitor hand hygiene compliance result in improved employee performance in the short-term because employees develop the habit of cleaning/washing their hands (i.e. is there a steady increase in performance that peaks at a certain level – performance follows an asymptotic curve)?

RQ2: What is the longer-term performance impact of implementing a technology solution that monitors hand hygiene compliance, i.e. the performance impact after 1 year and beyond (after 3, 4, 5 years etc.)?

Read it here: https://w.taskstream.com/ts/moore783/SignatureAssignmentProposalMonitoring.html/acf5e6eq00akfcfkf7e8edfefl

#automation #handhygiene #videomonitoring #research #phdresearch #healthcare


Post 2

This journal article provides valuable information on the career decision-making process:

Journal article: Making better career decisions: From challenges to opportunities
By: Itamar Gatia, Viktória Kulcsár
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0001879121000178

#career #decisionmaking #jobs #jobsearch #psychology #technology

 
Post 3

Interesting paper on the effectiveness of a mandatory program for the unemployed in Denmark:

Journal article: How to help unemployed find jobs quickly: Experimental evidence from a mandatory activation program
By: Brian Krogh Graversen, Jan C. van Ours
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047272708000777

#unemployedtraining #unemployment #hr #job

Music

I looked up recorders for sale online and saw recorders similar to the one a friend gave me many, many years ago (the one that plays music). I still have that recorder. It is chipped but it still works. I will post a pic later. I still appreciate what she did.

Music is such as important part of my life. If you know anything about me, you know that I love music.

I played that recorder at the funerals of both grandmothers. 

Change

More practice today.

Today I am thinking of change. Prices change, people change, places change, and so on. Price increases, such as the increase in gas prices, are usually negative changes for the consumer; people don't like them very much. From economic theory, I know that consumers sometimes (maybe want to) find substitutes for goods when the price increases.

Consider diagramming. At one point, UML was the predominant language/notation used for creating diagrams. Then there was BPMN. Now, systems will assist with the creation of diagrams. I was an evaluator of a prototype to create class diagrams from requirements. I thought the diagrams created by the system were a good starting point for Analysts who need to create these diagrams. I created and submitted models/diagrams to show how the diagrams may differ when a person -the Analyst - creates it. The author Tiantian Tang actually thanked me in the acknowledgements. That was cool.

The paper:

From Natural Language to UML Class Models: An Automated Solution Using NLP to Assist Requirements Analysis
By Tiantian Tang
https://theses.liacs.nl/pdf/2020-2021-TangTiantian.pdf

I realize that I have knowledge of the "old" diagrams (DFDs and so on) as well as newer UML and BPMN diagrams. I probably should pay more attention to diagramming. The following blog has examples of diagrams I prepared for a job search process:

http://moorefo1.blogspot.com/