The Playful Potential of Digital Commensality: Learning from Spontaneous Playful Remote Dining Practices

With one-person households being increasingly common and Covid-19 lockdown policies forcing people to stay home, remote dining has become common practice for many, who take it as an opportunity to connect with others in times of loneliness. Sharing meals online, also known as digital commensality, is a rich form of interaction, where people leverage technology to achieve a sense of connectedness and belonging while eating. In this paper, we look at digital commensality and we explore its inherent playful potential with the aim to inspire the design of engaging technologies that can support, enhance and augment this form of interaction. For this, we used a situated play design approach to document and analyze the behavior of 36 people (including pairs of friends and strangers) sharing meals online. Our analysis surfaced a set of play potentials of remote dining - i.e., playful things people already do and enjoy spontaneously while sharing meals online. We present those play potentials as inspirational material: they can motivate and enrich the design of future digital commensality technologies by responding to people's desire for playful and social interaction with, through, and around food. © 2022 ACM.

Estimation of multi-truncated rayleigh and Weibull distributions with application

In this paper, we introduced the estimation of parameters for distributions that have multi-double truncation by the maximum likelihood method. We depended in the applied study on data of disease of Covid-19 by using one double truncation. Some statistical data were analyzed and unknown parameters and were compared with some distribution.

Perceived quality of remote handover process during COVID-19 crisis in pediatric intensive care setting: A mixed-method with content analysis

AIMS & OBJECTIVES: A key measure to mitigate COVID-19 has been social distancing. Incorporating videoconferencing Apps in patients' handover process between HCWs can enhance social distancing while maintaining handover elements. This research aimed to describe PICU physicians' experience in using online videoconferencing App for handover during the pandemic. METHODS: This is a qualitative content analysis at a university hospital in Riyadh, KSA. Since May 15th, 2020, due to the pandemic, our PICU utilized Zoom® as a remote conferencing App, instead of face-to-face handover. After the IRB approval, data were collected over two weeks (July 1-14th, 2020) through an online structured questionnaire. Demographic data and open-ended questions about the perceived efficacy of the remote handover were collected. The analysis process included open coding, creating categories, and abstraction. RESULTS: From the 36 PICU physicians who participated, 30 (83.3%) completed the survey. Participants included 6 attendings, 9 specialists, and 21 residents. They had variable previous teleconferencing experience (Table). Most physicians (75%) were comfortable conducting a remote endorsement. The majority found that SBAR handover elements were achieved through this remote handover process (Fig). The perceived advantages of online handover included fewer interruptions, time efficiency, and facilitation of social distancing. Perceived disadvantages were the paucity of non-verbal communication and teaching during virtual meetings. CONCLUSIONS: Videoconferencing Apps utilized for online handover could supplement traditional face-to-face ICU patients' endorsement during infectious disease outbreaks. Some changes should be implemented to optimize the users' experience.

Knowledge, attitudes and practices of healthcare workers during the early COVID-19 pandemic in a main, academic tertiary care centre in Saudi Arabia.

As the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) continues to occur in small outbreaks in Saudi Arabia, we aimed to assess the knowledge, attitudes and intended practices of healthcare workers (HCWs) during the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic and compare worry levels with previous findings during the MERS-CoV outbreak in 2015. We sent an adapted version of our previously published MERS-CoV questionnaire to the same cohort of HCWs at a tertiary hospital in Saudi Arabia. About 40% of our sample had previous experience with confirmed or suspected MERS-CoV patients, and those had a significantly higher knowledge score (13.16 ± 2.02 vs. 12.58 ± 2.27, P = 0.002) and higher adherence to protective hygienic practices (2.95 ± 0.80 vs. 2.74 ± 0.92, P = 0.003). The knowledge scores on COVID-19 were higher in the current cohort than the previous MERS-CoV outbreak cohort (68% vs. 79.7%, P < 0.001). HCWs from the current cohort who felt greater anxiety from COVID-19 compared to MERS-CoV were less likely to have been exposed to MERS-CoV infected/suspected cases (odds ratio (OR) = 0.646, P = 0.042) and were less likely to have attended the hospital awareness campaign on COVID-19 (OR = 0.654, P = 0.035). We concluded that previous experience with MERS-CoV was associated with increased knowledge and adherence to protective hygienic practices, and reduction of anxiety towards COVID-19.