MOBILE SOCIAL WORK
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Category Archives: Ideas
What Social Worker Should Know in a Digitized Society – 6 Theses from the Cyberwork Conference
Today my colleague Timo Nicklaus and me attended the second day of the Cyberwork Conference in Bremen/Germany. Inspired by interesting talks on internet street work, digitized youth work, and online … Continue reading
The future of touch screens – touching virtual surface? [VIDEO]
As we are used to communicate by screens and keyboards a lot of the perception of the world misses the real touch. No matter what I look at the surface … Continue reading
Will this virtual human replace social workers and psychotherapists?
Can machines read human face expression? And can they do it like a social worker or psychotherapist? … Professionals that are trained to focus on empathy and the diagnosis of … Continue reading
Is Facebook a substitue for basic physiological needs ? [VIDEO] [INFOGRAPHIC]
Why do we use social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Linkedin, or blogs? One approach to this question is to look a Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. The following video is … Continue reading
We Are Now a Society of Multi-taskers and Multi-screeners | Social Media Today [INFOGRAPHIC]
by Brian Solis, http://socialmediatoday.com We are a nation of multi-taskers. As you read this, you’re either doing something else, or this is the “something else” you’re doing while your work on … Continue reading
Wearable tech designed for health
This board focuses mainly on self-tracking gadgets and sensors – especially those designed for health. While most are wearable, there are some that track from inside the body or that you … Continue reading
Pinterest as a therapeutic tool … In Defense of Pinterest | Wired Design | Wired.com
BY CLIVE THOMPSON, wired.com Therapists often run into a curious problem during treatment: Clients aren’t very good at describing their emotions. How exactly do you express the nature of your … Continue reading
What’s Better? Online or Offline (IRL)? | World of Psychology
by JOHN M. GROHOL, PSYD, psychcentral.com A month doesn’t pass where you won’t find an article on some website, in some newspaper or magazine, or hear a story on TV about … Continue reading
