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Mothers’ Reflections on Cat Ownership for a Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder During COVID-19
(2022-07-05)Animal-assisted interventions are increasingly used as a complementary therapy in clinical practice to support people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), with promising outcomes compared to traditional therapies. Less is ... -
Motion Hub, the implementation of an integrated end-to-end journey planner
(2018-10-10)The term “eMobility” and been brought into use partly to encourage use of electric vehicles but more especially to focus on the transformation from electric vehicles as products to electrified personal transport as a ... -
Motivated by the Gods: : Compartmentalized Agency & Responsibility
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Motivating developer performance to improve project outcomes in a high maturity organization
(2007-12)In this paper we discuss the impact software developer performance has on project outcomes. Project performance remains unreliable in the software industry with many compromised software systems reported in the press. We ... -
Motivating software engineers : A Theoretically Reflective Model
(INSTICC-INST SYST TECHNOLOGIES INFORMATION CONTROL & COMMUNICATION, 2008)We present a model of motivation for software engineers. Our model suggests that software engineers are motivated by two sets of factors, intrinsic and extrinsic motivators, where a subset of intrinsic motivators are aspects ... -
Motivation Driven Learning of Action Affordances
(The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB), 2005)Survival in the animal realm often depends on the ability to elucidate the potentialities for action offered by every situation. This paper argues that affordance learning is a powerful ability for adaptive, embodied, ... -
Motivation for change and the pros and cons of smoking in a Spanish population
(2007-01)Decisional balance and the stage of change have been used to understand the motivation for giving up the habit of smoking. The objective of this study was to find out whether the associations between the pros and the cons ... -
Motivation in software engineering: a systematic literature review
(2008-08)Objective: In this paper, we present a systematic literature review of motivation in Software Engineering. The objective of this review is to plot the landscape of current reported knowledge in terms of what motivates ... -
Motivation in Software Engineering: A Systematic--Literature Review
(University of Hertfordshire, 2007)This research presents a systematic literature review of motivation in Software Engineering. The objective is to report on what motivates and de-motivates developers, and how existing models address motivation. The majority ... -
The Motivation of Software Engineers : Developing a Rigorous and Usable Model
(University of Hertfordshire, 2007)This report presents a summary of the work undertaken in the one year EPSRC “Modelling Motivation in Software Engineering” (MoMSE) project (2005). The aim of this work is to produce a model of motivation in software ... -
Motivation to change in recent onset and long-standing bulimia nervosa : are there differences?
(2007)Little is known about how motivation to change evolves over the course of an eating disorder. The present study compared 'stage of change' and motivation, confidence and readiness to change in two groups of patients with ... -
Motivation, achievements and failure of strategic alliances: The case of Swedish auto-manufacturers in Russia
(2005)A large number of industrial manufacturers are forming various types of alliances in a bid to improve their competitive position. The number of strategic alliances has almost doubled in the past ten years and is expected ... -
Motivations and perceived usefulness of technology in higher education
(Academic Conferences Ltd., 2008)This study investigates student experiences with learning and teaching technologies using data obtained through an online survey of 553 students. The following specific questions are addressed in the study. What type of ... -
Motivators of Software Process Improvement : An Analysis of Practitioners' Views
(2002-05-15)We present empirical findings from our study of Software Process Improvement (SPI) motivators in 13 UK software companies. Our analysis aims to provide SPI managers with some insight into designing appropriate SPI ... -
Motor awareness in anosognosia for hemiplegia : experiments at last
(2010)Anosognosia for hemiplegia (AHP) is the apparent inability to acknowledge contralesional paralysis, typically following right-hemisphere lesions. Here we review studies that regard AHP as a specific deficit of motor awareness ... -
Motor Resonance as Indicator for Quality of Interaction - Does it Scale to Natural Movements?
(International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (IFAAMAS), 2018-07-10)Detecting in an automatic manner whether a particular interaction between man and machine “works”, is an unsolved problem in human-machine interaction. No computational technique exists by which the artificial agent could ... -
The Motor Unawareness Assessment (MUNA): A new tool for the assessment of Anosognosia for hemiplegia
(2021-02-15)Introduction: Anosognosia for hemiplegia (AHP) is a condition in which patients with paralysis are unaware of their motor deficits. Research into AHP is important for improving its treatment and providing insight into the ... -
The Motor Unawareness Assessment (MUNA): A new tool for the assessment of Anosognosia for hemiplegia
(2021-02-15)Introduction: Anosognosia for hemiplegia (AHP) is a condition in which patients with paralysis are unaware of their motor deficits. Research into AHP is important for improving its treatment and providing insight into the ...