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When I ask athletes, families, and coaches about the benefits of participation in Special Olympics, I often hear responses that speak to issues of improved self-esteem and social skills, formation of friendships, experiencing of joy and acceptance, enjoyment of competition and of winning, and the satisfaction in being athletes and demonstrating their abilities like everyone else.
These benefits are common to the athlete experience, both within and beyond Special Olympics. The additional health benefits of physical activity and fitness are also well-documented; however these are less often cited as such by our Special Olympics coaches, family members, and athletes. Perhaps this is because Special Olympics has historically operated primarily on a model of recreational sport, where social and emotional well-being have been prioritized over serious sport training, physical fitness, and health. This is not to say that athletes haven't benefited physically from their participation in Special Olympics, but rather that our athlete and coaching models have tended to focus more on sports skills, teamwork, and fun than on fitness and conditioning.
While it seems likely that our athletes, as a group, are more physically active then the wider population of persons with ID, we do see troubling indications that our athletes could benefit from enhanced fitness and conditioning, not only to improve sport performance but also to promote better health and well-being. Globally, 36% of our adult athletes and 18% of our youth athletes are obese. These numbers soar highest in our North American region (where 45% of adults and 32% of youth are obese), but even regions where overweight and obesity have not historically been problematic are beginning to see increased rates among children.
We are all well aware of the secondary conditions tied to overweight and obesity, some of which can have earlier onset in people with ID than in the general population. Our systems of care, lack of readiness of healthcare providers, and insufficient health promotion targeting this population create additional health risk factors for our athletes.
While Special Olympics alone cannot address all of these risk factors, we can increase our role in the area of prevention, through enhanced physical fitness and nutrition education, both during and beyond training and competition events. Today we are beginning to see a shift in culture at the international level of Special Olympics, one that is evidenced in the release of the new 2011-2015 Strategic Plan. This plan calls for the creation of a new athlete sports development model that challenges athletes to strive for their personal best in training and competition and to make physical fitness a way of life. The plan also focuses on enhanced recruitment and training of coaches and the setting of coaching excellence standards that incorporate nutrition, fitness, and wellness.
While the health benefits of enhanced physical activity and fitness are likely obvious to everyone reading this newsletter, our sports team and our athlete leaders have been promoting the same agenda, in part for non-health related reasons. Our Sports personnel, at headquarters and in the field, have called for a shift in culture toward one that treats our participants as serious athletes. Programs and Regions increasingly want Special Olympics to be viewed as a credible sport organization to enhance attractiveness to potential partners. Athlete leaders have demanded that we look closely at where we as an organization may have set our own expectations for our athletes too low, and to raise them. While Special Olympics will continue to offer opportunities to athletes of all ability levels, our stakeholders throughout the Movement are asking for an increased focus on sports models that encourage each athlete to achieve his or her own personal best.
How does Healthy Athletes fit into this shift in focus? Clearly, all sports initiatives targeting fitness and health align with our work. Our Health team is, therefore, sitting at the table with our Sports Training & Competition team, Program leaders, Board members, and athletes to support and guide new programming in these areas. Some early activities include the development and piloting of a sports nutrition and readiness assessment, creation of athlete-friendly guides and regimens for fitness and conditioning both in- and post-season, planned launching of an 8-week fitness challenge this Fall, and development and piloting of nutritional guidelines for meals at Special Olympics competition events.
Most of these activities will be developed jointly by the Sports and Health teams at Special Olympics, however they will be disseminated to the field primarily through sports channels. Because Healthy Athletes is most often conducted as a once-a-year event attended by a small number of athletes within a Program, it makes sense to offer these activities where athletes spend most of their Special Olympics time – in sports training and competition activities. Thus, tools are being developed to enhance the coaching and sports experience, as well as improve healthy behaviors and well-being.
As these activities are rolled out, Healthy Athletes volunteers may choose to team up with their sports counterparts to support local implementation, for instance, serving as "fitness coaches" to athletes off-season, advising Programs on implementation of the Games nutritional guidelines, conducting health education sessions for coaches, or running sport and nutrition readiness clinics.
This fitness and conditioning programming effort is part of a larger agenda through which, over the next five years, Healthy Athletes will step out from under the screening tent and become integrated into all programming offered by Special Olympics. Similar work is being undertaken in areas related to family and youth programming. It is by inserting health education into all of the programming of Special Olympics that we can create reinforcing messaging and influence not only our athletes, but also their coaches and families – key environmental players in our athletes' health.
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take an aspirin a day just to feel ouengyr, so if that is true then it has double effects. Hard for me to imagine that it could make u feel ouengyr, but for sure it decreases blood clotting (which causes many heart attacks). But I'am under the impression that a shot of brandy (or any alcohol for that matter) also thins the blood, so if u have no aspirin handy, a shot is better than death. I whole heartly agree if our best medical facilities r unwilling to pass on safe health practices, where does that leave us?
Very true. And hard to find support when your that withdrawn. ..people need to reach out and show there love. For all beings! Good info.
Thanks Dr. Creagan for your fresh thoughts and simplistic manner. I enjoy reading.
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Stress is being emposed or thought by society to us in our life. Just like the fish in the aquarium or the new-comer monkey in the zoo cage hit by others to prevent the cold water splash when touching bananas. Therefore, Stress will prevail till the time the Salieri-like people loose their ambitions. Otherwise Mozart(s) will die in stress and pain. Long live Justin Kruger and David Dunning.
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There's gotta be a novelty to that. An episode where Brawn grows oversized and he one-mans the entire 'con army? That time when the attributes of every character get reversed? SG Brawn, where he's really HUEG, but a total pussy? A robo-genie comes to him and Wheelie and grants them a bigger size?Gauntlet101010 wrote:The head really screams "Brawn". But that body is comically oversized.
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Assuming this is real. Wow. This is why I lost interest in Hasbro. Well not this. But ugly **** crap jokes like this. What happened to Transformers man? I swear it's like Hasbro said " eff it guys, this junk is for kids so let's just pump out a bunch of garbage, and sell real toys to adults under 3rd party flags"
I mean. Look at this piece of ****. Then look at a pic of Hench. I'm done. No Im not. Still ranting. This is the kind of ugly crap that makes me suprememly happy to have grown up in the Gobots, G1, Robotech era.
Transformers is (the toys lately) a joke. I'm sure there will be a white knight to shoot down my opinion and scold me for having an opinion. Enjoy your 'brawn'... I'm gonna go buy a Jeeper Creeper or some ****, I need a dose of robot action figure after looking at this ****.
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I have a mind of a 12-year-old, for what it's worth.Krok wrote:Not everything Hasbro produce is pure gold but the way this forum reacts is just embarrassing when you consider that behind the keyboards are not 12 year olds but chaps in their middle ages with 12 year olds.
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how about VDPAU? why focus on UVD?
UVD is an engine on the graphics card while VDPAU is an API to let programs use it. These are two very different things which shouldn't be confused. You need the card's UVD to be supported before VDPAU will ever work as good as in nVidia's implementation.
i thought that VDPAU uses the 3D engine, while UVD was a engine itself...
but if you say that it wont work without UVD...
i really thought that VDPAU can be used on r300g driven cards..
VDPAU: "Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix". This is nothing more or less than NVIDIA'S (i.e. evil/hostile) SOFTWARE INTERFACE to their hardware video decoder, which they call "PureVideo".
NVIDIA calls their implementation by the name "PureVideo".
AMD calls their implementation by the name "Unified Video Decoder" (aka "UVD").
I.e., UVD ~= PureVideo
(~= means "approximately equivalent")
I only care about Video Acceleration. While it works flawlessly under Windows, up to the point where one can easily watch hardware-accelerated YouTube HD videos on even the weakest AMD APU, it is still a huge pain under Linux. There are VDPAU, VA-API and whatnot, every single player has to be patched to use them, every driver exposes a different API, and the open-source drivers don't expose any or offer just half the codecs or it doesn't work. Just today I installed a GT 210 in an HTPC running Ubuntu. I had to manually install VDPAU, libva and smplayer to get acceleration working. All other combinations and players (vlc, xine etc.) didn't work. Great. Sometimes i just wish we had a port of DirectShow.
Let's try to clear the confusion here!
UVD is indeed the equivalent of PureVideo. There purpose is just to decode video, hence they are special function hardware and extremely efficient.
VDPAU and XvBA are APIs which are mainly meant to take advantage of the above decoders.
This means that they can be implemented even on CPUs but most probably it would not be efficient at all.
The consequence is that either of them could be implemented in a Gallium3D state tracker and any gallium drivers, including r300g, could make use of them.
So yes, the idea is that the VDPAU state tracker tries to create an implementation of said API over gallium. It currently supports r300g, r600g and nouveau.
Now it should be obvious that UVD is not needed for VDPAU on any hardware.
The shortcoming of the Gallium3D state tracker is that it uses the shaders, hence it cannot be as efficient as the UVD would be. This is the main reason why guys at AMD are still battling to provide some sort of support despite the serious legal challenges.
Hope it clarifies a few bits. If I made mistakes hopefully bridgman & co. will fix me.
I wish they'd make power management a bigger priority. Thats the reason I got a new laptop with intel graphics to replace my old laptop that had an hd2600 mobility. Using the OSS drivers on that thing raped my battery life and caused very high temps compared to catalyst, even when I set it to low profile. And on low profile performance wasn't very good for compositing. Dynpm hardly even worked, screen flickered every time it switched clocks. Power management is a total mess right now for those drivers.
This new laptop has less powerful integrated intel graphics, but compositing seems smoother, and I get good temps and battery life. Both catalyst and the oss drivers were too problematic for me in linux to keep using ATI. Catalyst has gotten better, and did give me decent temps, but the fact that it is so broken with gnome-shell was a deal breaker for me.
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DaCostaBR: Speaking of publishers, the original release was published in Japan by Marvelous Interactive, but since the Director's Cut never came out over there, there seems to be no ties between Marvelous and the Director's Cut, and that's the one coming to PC, maybe Rising Star might retain the rights over there as well?
That remains to be seen. This could be another Capcom like scenario, where Marvelous hold the rights but don't intend to release the game. You'd be surprised at how many games Capcom JP have had rights to over the years simply so the games wouldn't be sold =/. Also, I've just looked this up on Amazon JP, and they themselves are selling the UK import of the Directors Cut. Amazon tend to leave the selling of imports to Market Place users. It's not often you see them doing it themselves.
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Mississippi State Hospital (MSH) recently honored all of its 2009 Employees of the Month, but three of those walked away from the recognition ceremony with the top honors – Employee of the Year. Brenda Hayes of Florence, Lisa Nichols of Brandon and Sharron Mills of Jackson were named the 2009 Employees of the Year. Hayes […] [...]


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Atrial Fibrillation
Figure 1. Picture of electrical pathways of the heart |
In an adult person with a normal heart rate and rhythm the heart beats 50-100 times per minute at rest (not under stress or exercising).
- If the heart beats more than 100 times per minute, the heart rate is considered fast (tachycardia).
- If the heart beats less than 50 times per minute, the heart rate is considered slow (bradycardia).
In atrial fibrillation, multiple sources of impulses other than only from the SA node travel through the atria at the same time. The reason that these sources develop are not completely understood, but cardiac muscles in the pulmonary veins have electrical generating properties and may be one source of these extra impulses.
- Instead of a coordinated contraction, the atrial contractions are irregular, disorganized, chaotic, and very rapid. The atria may contract at a rate of 400-600 beats per minute. The blood flow from the atria to the ventricles is often disrupted.
- These irregular impulses reach the AV node in rapid succession, but not all of them make it past the AV node. Therefore, the ventricles beat more slowly than the atria, often at fairly fast rates of 110-180 beats per minute in an irregular rhythm.
- The resulting rapid, irregular heartbeat causes an irregular pulse and sometimes a sensation of fluttering in the chest.
Atrial fibrillation can occur in several different patterns.
- Intermittent (paroxysmal): The heart develops atrial fibrillation and typically converts back again spontaneously to normal (sinus) rhythm. The episodes may last anywhere from seconds to days.
- Persistent: Atrial fibrillation occurs in episodes, but the arrhythmia does not convert back to sinus rhythm spontaneously. Medical treatment or cardioversion (electrical treatment) is required to end the episode.
- Permanent: The heart is always in atrial fibrillation. Conversion back to sinus rhythm either is not possible or is deemed not appropriate for medical reasons. In most cases, the rate is reduced by medications and the patients are placed on anticlotting medication for their lifetime.
Atrial fibrillation, often called A Fib, atrial tachyarrhythmia, or atrial tachycardia, is one of the very common heart rhythm disorders.
- It affects mostly people older than 60 years. People older than 40 have about a 25% chance of developing A fib in their lifetime.
- The risk of developing atrial fibrillation increases as we get older.
For many people, atrial fibrillation may cause symptoms but does no harm.
- Complications like blood clot formation, strokes, and heart failure can arise, but appropriate treatment reduces the chances that such complications will develop.
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Celebrate the Arkansas Razorbacks as you suit up for a night on the town. This tie clip and cufflinks set is the perfect way to flaunt your Arkansas Razorbacks spirit at your next white tie affair. Crisp enamel Arkansas Razorbacks graphics set against silvertone hardware make for a handsome display of fanitude.
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Where the climate is humid, the air can hold fixed amounts of water vapor. Humidity can seep into homes and cause a variety of problems like breathing problems for some people and humidity can attract insects and pests into the home. Insects and pests that live in homes can make the people who live in these homes really sick and some of the causes are allergies and bacteria. An air purification system can help solve the humid condition in the home.
Air purifiers, also known as dehumidifiers are easy to operate devices that remove excessive humidity and moisture present in the air.
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A dehumidifier is part of an air purification system and it simply works by removing excess moisture from the home. All air purifier units feature the following components-
- Fan compressor – This enables the unit to pull air inside it as well as distributing cooling agent over the coils of the unit.
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- Air Re-heater – This component reheats the cooled and moisture-free air before it is sent back into your home.
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Video TranscriptA veteran.. who is suffering from PTSD .. loses what matters to him most. KCCI's Laura Nichols shows us how complete strangers stepped up to help! True to the saying "a dog is a man's best friend"... Veteran Adam Morton and his service dog Quincy are inseparable ... ...so much so that the two sleep next to each other every night. IF I'M HAVING A NIGHTMARE HE'LL COME AND WAKE ME UP FROM IT. Adam started having nightmares after serving two tours in Iraq. He suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder...and Quincy is one of the few things that comforts him. But just last week...in the midst of Adam's move from Clive to Michigan...Quinc y got out without a leash and went missing ...leaving his best friend devastated and unable to sleep I DIDN'T THINK I WAS GOING TO BE ABLE TO GET HIM BACK. But the story doesn't end there ... it's far from over actually...becaus e the unthinkable happened next.. Quincy was found wandering in West Des Moines...and delivered right here to Amy Heinz's no kill shelter. Josh and Amanda Jones became his foster parents.. HE IS A REALLY WELL BEHAVED DOG. After checking Quincy's micro chip they discovered he was a service dog.....and knew the only right thing to do was make a phone call to Michigan I WOULD BE TOTALLY LOST WITHOUT MY DOG SO ...HE'S MY GLUE. SO I'M SURE QUNICY IS ADAM'S GLUE TO SO WE'RE HAPPY THAT HE GETS TO GO BACK. I MEAN I CAN'T DESCRIBE IT. I MEAN, OH IT'S JUST A BIG RELIEF KNOWING THAT I'LL HAVE HIM BACK. This weekend Quincy will take a road trip to Michigan ... WE'LL DEFINITELY MISS HIM. For what's sure to be a emotional between man and his best friend... I'D PROBABLY BE HARD FOR ME NOT TO CRY. A Vietnam Vet and Patriot Guard member will be making the 10 hour drive to Michigan to
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The cervix is the lower, narrow part of the uterus (womb). A special magnifying device with a light, called a colposcope, can be used to visually examine the cervix and vagina.
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Usually no anesthesia is needed. In certain cases, the cervix may be numbed with a local anesthetic.
A device called a speculum will be inserted into the vagina. The speculum will gently spread apart the vaginal walls. The inside of the vagina and the cervix will be easier to see. The colposcope will be placed at the opening of the vagina. Then, the cervix will be wiped with a solution. The solution will make abnormal areas easier to see. The cervix and vagina will be examined closely with the colposcope. A long tool may be used to take a sample of tissue from the cervix or vaginal wall.
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A popular summer holiday destination thanks to fantastic temperatures and beaches galore, Spain is also perfect for a few days away. Whether you're with friends for fun, a couple looking for romance or a family keen to keep everyone entertained.
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Barcelona's Gothic and Art Nouveau buildings are a great backdrop for this tremendous city, fantastic for sight-seeing, shopping and nightlife. Barcelona is truly vibrant city personified by the Ramblas, a bustling area packed with cafes, shops and restaurants. Travelodge has one Barcelona hotel.
At Madrid's heart is a mix of medieval architecture and small alleys dotted with shops and bars that link beautiful cobbled squares just right for a bite of tapas and people-watching - or partying - into the early hours. Spain's capital city is one of the country's most fun cities and Travelodge has two Madrid hotels to choose from.
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You might just want to get away from it all. Madrid's beautiful and historical Plaza Mayor is ideal for relaxing and people-watching over a leisurely jug of sangria while the Valencia beach is spot on for both families and snoozing sun-bathers.
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American society is becoming increasingly multicultural. Cultural anthropology explores the nature of culture in different settings and historical time periods. It examines human behavior throughout the world, discovering how people in distinct cultural contexts live together, creating and interpreting experiences.
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The cultural anthropology minor allows students to compare perspectives on culture throughout history and in different contexts. Students learn to recognize what separates and unites people within nations and around the world.
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 Food Court, Macaroni Grill Entrance, Regal Court Entrance, H&M Entrance, and in front of Rack Room Shoes near Entry 3.
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Baby Changing Stations are located in every restroom throughout the property.
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 Sunday: 11:30am-6:45pm

 The shuttle picks up and drops off at Opry Mills' Food Court every thirty minutes at approximately 15 minutes on the hour and 45 minutes on the hour.
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Tennessee Treasures, our children's play area, is located in Zone 3, near The Children's Place.

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The mall opens its doors early for mall walkers.

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 Sunday: doors open at 9:00AM

 An entire loop around Opry Mills is equivalent to 1 mile.

 If you walk down to Regal Cinemas and back, you will have added .25 miles to that.

 This makes the entire distance around the inside of Opry Mills 1.25 miles.
Motorcoach Dropoff
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Nursing Mothers Lounge
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Simon Youth Academy

The Simon Youth Academy at Opry Mills is located near Service Court 2.

 To meet our mission, SYF supports two major initiatives: Simon Youth Academies and Simon Youth Scholarships.

Primarily located in Simon malls, Simon Youth Academies offer flexible schedules and small class sizes that make learning accessible to students who struggle to connect with material in a traditional classroom or school because they are homeless, bullied, battling serious illness, facing parenthood, working full-time to support their families, or facing other challenging personal circumstances.

The Simon Youth Scholarships program pays out millions in one-time and renewable scholarships to high school students in every community that is home to a Simon mall each year. Targeting first-generation college students and those with demonstrated financial need, the Simon Youth Scholarships program furthers the SYF commitment to extending educational opportunities to all students who want to learn, no matter their personal circumstances.

Strollers - Smarte Carte strollers are available for a small charge at entrances 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5.
Valet Parking
We offer Valet Parking Friday-Sunday at Entry 2.

 This service has a fee of $7.

 Ready to shop but not for a parking spot? Valet will park your vehicle for you at Entry 2 between Saks 5th Avenue Off 5TH and Polo Ralph Lauren Factory Store.
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Photo Essay: Humans and Wild Animals Meet in Poignant, Awkward Moments
Feb 11, 2011
- In her photo essay "Domesticated," photographer Amy Stein explores the barriers between humanity's built environment and the wild.
One of Many Detroits
by AnonymousJan 21, 2011
- Photo essay: "The people of this city are not abstractions." An anonymous Detroit photographer shares a view of the city that the mainstream media doesn't cover.
Big Problem, Big Art
Nov 30, 2010
- Photo essay: As climate negotiators meet in Cancun, activists the world over are reminding them of what's at stake with some very big art.
Photo Essay: A Mother's Love Behind Bars
by Cheryl Hanna-TruscottNov 15, 2010
- A unique program in Washington state allows mothers incarcerated for nonviolence crimes to care for their newborns.
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Nov 15, 2010
- Photo Essay: A celebration of friendship, family, love, and laughter.
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So Thorin needs to be on there twice, huh?
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey arrivesDecember 14th, 2013.
So we're entering the holiday movie season, arguably the other big season for movies after the summer...anybody else feel like news sharing has slowed waaaaaaaaaaay down?
I'm re-reading the Hobbit before the film release (read it a long time ago), but question for those familar: why is Thorin taller than the rest? Is he half human?
No, not half human, probably just the tallest actor they got for the dwarves...and he is the leader after all. Guess they figured he needed to stand out a bit from the rest. Remember, Bullroarer Took was a hobbit, no human blood, but he was tall enough at 5 feet to actually ride a horse.
Thorin is not just any Dwarf, he is a decendant of one of the original Kings. He is a very mighty warrior.


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Shavuot: The Secret of Inspiration
Why did God wait 49 days before giving the Torah?
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Interesting... but what about the golden calf? That came after the Israelites expressed their determination to do whatever God asked - if only they could hear it from Moses, and not the voice of God. And the golden calf was certainly not the end of idolatry and rebellion. I don't think it was about Israel becoming great, but a Great and loving Lord who was and is willing to forgive those who will repent, realizing their need for salvation that comes from outside themselves.


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Designing to Build Trust
More than ever in the digital domain, companies rely on design to communicate with their customers. Because the experience of visiting a company website is by nature remote—lacking any direct interaction with any tangible assets offered—the company's digital presence often defines a user's impressions of the company as a whole. In this context, how customers experience not only the website but also the way the site handles their personal information becomes key to shaping their overall impression of the brand.
In this article, we will dive into the nature of trusted online experiences, why they are important, design attributes that we know people trust, and how design creates trust and distrust. We'll illustrate the issues around designing for trust with a sample prototype of a healthcare exchange design and user reactions to it.
What is Trust?
For consumers, trust means:
- A company is moral. Trust involves the belief that a company is law-abiding and fair while also showing that it cares about its customers.
- A product will do what it claims to do. A consumer has expectations that the company's product will live up to its claims, which are assumed to be accurate and unbiased. Most people trust that when they hit the "send" button, an email will be sent to the selected contact.
- Information will be correct, complete, and unbiased. When people trust the information and choices presented, they are less likely to feel a need to go elsewhere.
- A product or service has quality. People want to feel confident in their choices and we all want to feel confident that our digital devices are quality products that will safely hold important data.
- "A company will protect me." Security and privacy are increasingly a key concern for consumers as they navigate the digital world. People want to know that a company has their best interests in mind. Will a company safely store my personal credit card information and keep sensitive information private?
- "If I don't understand, there is a good reason why." Consumers can be comfortable with not understanding exactly why a company collects information if they are confident that the information is being used to create a better product or service.
- "I will be successful." For consumers, there must be a sense that if they follow a process through all required steps, their goals and intention will be met
Consumers who distrust will:
- View company claims and intentions with suspicion
- Go to other websites to verify information
- Decide not to make a purchase
- Attempt to conceal or withhold personal information
- Abandon processes
- Tell others about their negative experiences
What do people trust?
We surveyed 1,358 consumers in August 2012 about trust. Participants were asked to rate, on a scale of one (distrust) to five (trust), how they felt about a range of industries, services, and platforms.
According to the survey, people trust doctors and Apple the most and health insurance companies and state and federal government the least. On the upside for health insurance companies and the government, good design has the potential to create trust and move brands toward a more trusted stauts.
Testing for Trust
To explore the impact of design on trust, we tested the online health insurance exchange prototype developed by IDEO—in collaboration with private and public entities—under the Enroll UX2014 initiative. This tool allows states to leverage a prototype site and create online exchanges that will provide citizens access to health insurance under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The goal of the online exchange is to provide a simple, self-service solution that precludes expensive call centers, reducing taxpayer costs.
Given the results of the survey, we knew that people regard the health insurance industry and the federal and state government as lesser-trusted entities. We wanted to evaluate the UX2014 design to determine how it impacted people's level of trust.
Based on research conducted by Pacific Business Group on Health, the design team at IDEO created a prototype that allows people to compare health insurance options by viewing three at a time. "They see all of the plan data in the same place—they don't have to navigate to a new page in our model. Three sets of information is the most data most consumers can retain, and so we looked at a model that would allow people to [examine] sets of three and then deal with their filtering separately," Christian Palino, Senior Project Leader at IDEO, says. Additional information, such as the deductible amounts, is layered in the user interface with rollover windows.
Our study was conducted in Create with Context's lab as part of the ongoing Digital Trust Initiative, which has included ethnographic interviews, longitudinal surveys, eye tracking studies, usability testing, surveys, and iterative test and design with over 1,500 participants.
As you can see in the video above, as participants navigated their way through the UX2014 prototype website, we were immediately reminded that context is important. Users' confidence was eroded when they felt that the services offered weren't relevant to their needs. For example, when asked to numerically rank her decision criteria when choosing a plan, one participant could not find her single most deciding factor: the monthly cost of the plan. Puzzled by the available options on her screen and she asked, "How much do I have to pay before the plan covers me? I don't see that here."
Ranking priorities was less relevant to participants because a) the lists did not address some of their most important concerns, such as expense, and b) they felt that because each criteria could be important in its own right, they were making tradeoffs too early in the process. Instead they expressed a desire to rate each item rather than rank them in relation to one another. The fact that the website did not meet people's expectations made it frustrating. "To me, to be forced to rank something is difficult. I think it'd be better if there was a dropdown, so that I could choose."
Good design allows people to see the big picture before diving into details, but it also makes all the key details readily available. When reviewing plan options, one user was frustrated by the fact that he saw 13 pages of plans that he needed to review, but that no overview of all of them was provided. He felt that having to wade through all 13 pages one by one could not only be frustrating, but that he also might end up getting side-tracked by it. "It's kind of frustrating … then you have to go through 13 pages, going back and forth. Because obviously you're going to want to look at every plan before you choose one."
Layering key information in a rollover can create suspicion. People look to rollovers for more detail, but it is not the primary place where they want to find key decision drivers. The information feels hidden, not transparent, eroding confidence that the service has their best interests in mind. "I'm not even seeing the deductible amount," one participant noted, not seeing that the information she was looking for was in a rollover graphic. "That's a big thing. [Rolls over it.] Oh, there it is. That's kinda stupid. … I don't know why you would hide it. That seems weird."
Good design doesn't just look simple; it is simple. It communicates complexity seamlessly. Simplicity for its own sake is not good design. Several participants felt that the UX2014 site was so simple that it did not provide them with enough information to make a decision. One participant said he would do more research "online or on a third party site." Another said, "It just feels too naked. If I'm going to spend $200 to $300 a month on something, I need to know more than this to be able to make a decision. This little amount of information just isn't enough."
Cognitive load is a real issue when people have to make complex decisions based on several variables. This is further complicated when people are unfamiliar with the health insurance landscape. We know that showing every plan with all its details on one screen isn't a viable option—we need to simplify. However, the UX 2014 model of simplification does not take people's context into account.
The UX2014 case study revealed the ways in which a design can miss opportunities to earn consumers' trust. We need to understand and design for the factors that matter to people: their knowledge of health insurance, the surfacing of information at their time of need, and the task flow for the decision-making process, to name a few. The next question is: How can we improve a design to create trusted digital experiences, especially for government and health insurance companies?
The Digital Trust Initiative is an independent effort to study digital design and privacy policy in digital technology. The work of the initiative is funded, in part, by a variety of partners: Yahoo!, Create With Context, AOL,Verizon, and Visa. The views expressed in this article and the conclusions drawn do not reflect the views of these partners. Further, the partners have not independently verified the results of the study, nor do they make any representation as to the accuracy or value of any statements made herein.
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Great article and review on the topic. I was inspired by the quote, "Simplicity for its own sake is not good design." I've had many-of-discussions on that very point over my career.
For a slightly fun and different take on the topic of trust and UX, I recently wrote an article describing the role of aesthetics (with a Disney-twist)...
I would also like more details around the elements of design that communicate trust; all that I see here is a discussion of things that 1) don't work and 2) can be easily fixed (for the most part).
One issue is that there's limited discussion around usability findings that can be generalized rather than accepted as unique responses. For example, a participant said "obviously you're going to want to look at every plan before you choose one." That's actually not that obvious. There's sorting functionality for a reason. If you run a google search, are you going to look through all 100k+ pages of results?
You've made great insights. Do those insights still apply when you consider that the entire state needs to use this application? How would you fix them if they do?
This article does a really great job developing the idea of consumer trust, but doesn't really connect the UX feedback to this idea. Yes, the complexity of information matters to good design. Yes, there are issues about using forced-ranking type interfaces. But these don't really get to the key point, which is, what elements of design communicate trust?
Yes, having to go back and forth is frustrating, but is it really an experience that is central to creating and maintaining consumer trust? Does flipping back and forth between pages fundamentally change consumers' perceptions that the company is moral, will do what it says, will protect them, etc.?


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That looks very interesting.
After glancing over the code very quickly i have some comments for you.
- First of all, why didn't you posted your repository url? (https://github.com/sddm)
- You are using Qt, but it seems like you prefer plains C++? Since you use a lot of things that Qt also has. For inctance, std::cerr = qError(...). QProcess can execute a command for you. QCoreApplication::arguments(); gets a QStringList of command line arguments. and there is much more like this. Your code can be a lot cleaner if you where to use that.
- You are using XLib directly. While this might be needed for your case, i do encourage you to write an abstraction layer. The current stuff is still X11, but wayland is really going forward now and in not too many years we well certainly see applications/desktop environments working in there. If you where to have an abstraction than porting SDDM to wayland would be "relatively" easy.
Just some comments thus far
Good luck developing this further, it looks interesting!


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