{"title":"Using Gamification to Break Barriers in Physical Therapy","authors":"Iyad Al-Nasri, Shahan Salim","doi":"10.5206/UWOMJ.V87I2.1146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5206/UWOMJ.V87I2.1146","url":null,"abstract":"Adherence to physical therapy can have a significant positive impact on the outcome of treatment, but remains a challenge for both clinicians and patients. Ubiquitous and accessible technologies such as video games and virtual reality (VR) can help to increase adherence in physical therapy, but adoption of these technologies is a barrier in itself. As such, health care professionals must play a larger role in game and simulation design in order for these interventions to be used in removing barriers to adherence. ","PeriodicalId":87852,"journal":{"name":"University of Western Ontario medical journal","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87272677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Authentic Leadership","authors":"Adam Morse","doi":"10.5206/uwomj.v87i2.1419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5206/uwomj.v87i2.1419","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":87852,"journal":{"name":"University of Western Ontario medical journal","volume":"66 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86676826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Technology and the patient journey","authors":"Claire P Browne","doi":"10.5206/UWOMJ.V87I2.4455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5206/UWOMJ.V87I2.4455","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":87852,"journal":{"name":"University of Western Ontario medical journal","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88284584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Biological Faithfulness is Unnecessary for Machine Learning","authors":"Meagan Wiederman","doi":"10.5206/UWOMJ.V87I2.1134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5206/UWOMJ.V87I2.1134","url":null,"abstract":"Artificial intelligence (AI) is the ability of any device to take an input, like that of its environment, and work to achieve a desired output. Some advancements in AI have focused n replicating the human brain in machinery. This is being made possible by the human connectome project: an initiative to map all the connections between neurons within the brain. A full replication of the thinking brain would inherently create something that could be argued to be a thinking machine. However, it is more interesting to question whether a non-biologically faithful AI could be considered as a thinking machine. Under Turing’s definition of ‘thinking’, a machine which can be mistaken as human when responding in writing from a “black box,” where they can not be viewed, can be said to pass for thinking. Backpropagation is an error minimizing algorithm to program AI for feature detection with no biological counterpart which is prevalent in AI. The recent success of backpropagation demonstrates that biological faithfulness is not required for deep learning or ‘thought’ in a machine. Backpropagation has been used in medical imaging compression algorithms and in pharmacological modelling.","PeriodicalId":87852,"journal":{"name":"University of Western Ontario medical journal","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83450355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The management of common difficulties in obstetrical practice.","authors":"D M LOW","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":87852,"journal":{"name":"University of Western Ontario medical journal","volume":"19 4","pages":"136-42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1949-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32125645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The treatment of burns.","authors":"D A J MOREY","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":87852,"journal":{"name":"University of Western Ontario medical journal","volume":"19 4","pages":"161-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1949-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32125647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Psychosurgery; present status.","authors":"H M BARKER","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":87852,"journal":{"name":"University of Western Ontario medical journal","volume":"19 4","pages":"143-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1949-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32122991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Allergic bronchial asthma; its etiology and treatment.","authors":"C R ARNOLD","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":87852,"journal":{"name":"University of Western Ontario medical journal","volume":"19 4","pages":"150-60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1949-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32125646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Puncture biopsy of the liver.","authors":"S SHERLOCK","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":87852,"journal":{"name":"University of Western Ontario medical journal","volume":"19 4","pages":"133-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1949-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32125644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Treatment of the hospitalized mentally ill.","authors":"H C SOLOMON","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":87852,"journal":{"name":"University of Western Ontario medical journal","volume":"19 3","pages":"89-99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1949-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27166466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}