UH Research Archive: Recent submissions
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Changing practice in dementia care in the community : developing and testing evidence-based interventions, from timely diagnosis to end of life (EVIDEM)
(NIHR Journals Library, 2015-05-06)Background: The needs of people with dementia and their carers are inadequately addressed at all key points in the illness trajectory, from diagnosis through to end-of-life care. The EVIDEM (Evidence-based Interventions ... -
Re-evaluating the word-length effect
(Psychology Press, 2001)Notes that the word-length effect, wherein subjects can recall a sequence of short words in the correct order more accurately than they can recall a sequence of long words, is one of the most salient features of immediate ... -
Transforming Type : New Directions in Kinetic Typography
(Bloomsbury Academic, 2014-12-18)This monograph, published by Bloomsbury Academic, identifies a category of behavior in kinetic typography that is distinct from other forms of temporal typography, and presents a typology of kinetic behaviors, in order to ... -
A Computational Account of Phonologically Mediated Free Recall
(Springer Nature, 1995)This paper investigates, by means of experimentation and simulation, Phonological Mediation in Immediate Free List Recall. It consists of two parts. The first part presents novel experimental evidence on Phonological ... -
Using a Humanoid Robot to Elicit Body Awareness and Appropriate Physical Interaction in Children with Autism
(2015-04-01)In this article we describe a human–robot interaction study, focusing on tactile aspects of interaction, in which children with autism interacted with the child-like humanoid robot KASPAR. KASPAR was equipped with touch ... -
Time for courage : A reflective dialogue on the state of the clinical psychology profession
(2015-01)Articulated via an interplay of internal and external dialogues between the ‘author’ and imaginary/real life characters, this piece offers a reflection on the state of the clinical psychology profession in the UK. Drawing ... -
Using Structured Chemistry Examinations (SChemEs) as an assessment method to improve undergraduate students' generic, practical and laboratory-based skills
(2014)Increase in tuition fees means there will be renewed pressure on universities to provide “value for money” courses that provide extensive training in both subject-specific and generic skills. For graduates of chemistry ... -
Investigating the application of the Motivation-Opportunity-Ability Model to reveal factors which facilitate or inhibit inclusive engagement within local community festivals
(2014-08-13)This paper aims to contribute to the debate on community engagement and participation in local community festivals and events by analysing the factors which either inhibit or facilitate engagement within local community ... -
Children's physical activity assessed with wrist- and hip-worn accelerometers
(2014-12)Recently, triaxial raw acceleration accelerometers have become available from GENEActiv and ActiGraph; both are designed for wrist and hip wear. It is important to determine whether the output from these monitors is ... -
Cognitive conflicts and symptom severity in Dysthymia: : “I'd rather be good than happy”
(2014)A method for studying cognitive conflicts using the repertory grid technique is presented. By means of this technique, implicative dilemmas can be identified, cognitive structures in which a personal construct for which ... -
Integrating ‘self-efficacy’ theory to the Motivation-Opportunity-Ability (MOA) Model to reveal factors that influence inclusive engagement within local community festivals
(2014-10-14)This study lies within what Getz (2010) refers to as the ‘classical discourse’ within festival studies as its context is firmly situated within cultural anthropology and sociology. The study, like many others, is ... -
Dance Psychology: The Power of Dance across Behaviour & Thinking
(2013-09)Psychologist and dance expert Peter Lovatt looks at some extraordinary facts about dance, including its health benefits, it's impacts on the way we problem-solve and the link between physical symmetry, sexual attraction and dance. -
A preliminary survey of aerial biocontaminants at six London Underground Stations
(1998-03-01)Six London Underground stations and one above ground site were sampled for the bacteria and fungal air spora over a two month period. Results were analysed for counts at different sites and times. Whilst time was found not ... -
Beetroot supplementation lowers daily systolic blood pressure in older, overweight subjects
(2014-10)Although inorganic nitrate and beetroot juice supplementation are associated with decreased systolic blood pressure (BP), these results have primarily been obtained from short-term trials that focused on healthy young ... -
The age prospective memory paradox within the same sample in time-based and event-based tasks
(2012-01)The present research investigated the age prospective memory (PM) paradox by testing the performance of the same participants on laboratory and naturalistic PM tasks. Younger, middle-aged, and older adults performed three ... -
Age-related differences in everyday prospective memory tasks : The role of planning and personal importance
(2013-12)The aim of the present studies was to investigate whether age-related improvement found in naturalistic but experimenter-given prospective memory (PM) tasks can be generalized to real-life intentions. In Study 1, younger, ... -
A naturalistic study of prospective memory in preschoolers : The role of task interruption and motivation
(2013-07-01)We conducted two naturalistic experiments to investigate preschoolers' development of event-based prospective memory (PM) and to examine the effects of motivation and interruption of an ongoing task. Children aged 2-6 years ... -
The role of rehearsals in self-generated prospective memory tasks
(2011-10-01)In order to inquire into the nature of retrieval in prospective memory in a naturalistic context, we investigated the number and circumstances of rehearsals of different kinds of intentions to be pursued during a single ... -
Graphical and text based challenge questions for secure and usable authentication in online examinations
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014-12)In traditional online examination environments, physical interaction is often replaced with authentication mechanisms. The absence of face-to-face interaction increases the number of authentication challenges. The authors ... -
Only social feedback reduces age-related prospective memory deficits in 'Virtual Week'
(2014-05)Background: Prospective memory, or remembering to do things in the future, is crucial for independent living in old age. Although there is evidence of substantial age-related deficits in memory for intentions, older adults ...