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Simon Wessely (born Sheffield, 1956) is a British psychiatrist. He is professor of epidemiological and liaison psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London and Head of its department of psychological medicine, Vice Dean for Academic Psychiatry, Teaching and Training at the Institute of Psychiatry, as well as Director of the King's Centre for Military Health Research. He is also honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at King's College Hospital and the Maudsley Hospital, as well as Civilian Consultant Advisor in Psychiatry to the British Army.[1]
Training and interestsEdit
After attending King Edward VII School King Edward VII School in Sheffield from 1968 to 1975, Wessely studied at Trinity Hall, Cambridge (BA 1978), University College, Oxford (BM BCh 1981), and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (MSc 1989). In 1993 the University of London conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Medicine.[2]
Wessely completed a medical rotation in Newcastle. After attaining medical membership he studied psychiatry (his primary interest) at the Maudsley in 1984. His 1993 doctoral thesis was on the relationship between crime and schizophrenia. Post-doctoral studies included a year at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and a year studying epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.[1] In 1999 he was elected fellow of the U.K. Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci).[3]
Wessely's main research interests lie in the "grey areas" between medicine and psychiatry, clinical epidemiology and military health. His first paper was entitled "Dementia and Mrs. Thatcher",[4] since then he has published over 600 papers on subjects including epidemiology, post traumatic stress, medicine and law, history of psychiatry, chronic pain, somatisation, Gulf War illness, chemical and biological terrorism and deliberate self harm. He has published most widely on aspects of chronic fatigue syndrome, including its aetiology, history, psychology, immunology, sociology, epidemiology and treatment.[1]
In private life, Wessely is married and has two sons. His interests include skiing and history, and he has cycled from London to Paris in 2006 and again in 2007, to raise money for veterans' charities.[5]
Work on chronic fatigue syndromeEdit
In the first years after the introduction of the diagnosis chronic fatigue syndrome the condition was often mocked in the media, for example being described as "yuppie flu".[6] Wessely and his co-workers verified that this stereotype was a misnomer, substantiating an association between autonomic dysfunction and chronic fatigue syndrome[7] and providing reliable data on the prevalence of CFS in the community, showing that it has become an important public health issue.[8] Other work on CFS included the development of new measurement tools,[9] establishing the lack of relationship between hyperventilation and CFS,[10] discovery of an endocrine "signature" for CFS that differed from depression[citation needed] and that prior depressive illnesses were likely linked to the condition in some cases.[11]
Wessely and his colleagues also developed a rehabilitation strategy for patients that involved cognitive behavioral and graded exercise therapy; research using randomised controlled trials and follow-up studies,[12] which have been demonstrated as effective at reducing symptoms of the condition in ambulant (non-severely affected) patients, which otherwise lacks a cure or unequivocally successful treatment.[13][14] Other studies looked at the professional and popular views of CFS,[15] neuropsychological impairment in CFS,[16] and cytokine activation in the illness.[17] Some of his other written works include a history of CFS,[18] numerous reviews and co-authoring the 1998 book Chronic fatigue and its syndromes.[19] He has also established the first National Health Service programme solely devoted to patients with CFS, and continues to provide ongoing treatment with patients at King's College Hospital.[20]
Wessely believes that CFS generally has some organic trigger, such as a virus, but that the role of psychological and social factors are more important in perpetuating the illness and treatments centred around these factors can be effective.[13][21] He sees viral attribution in CFS as 'somatisation par excellence'.[22] In a BMJ interview, Wessely indicated that the cause of CFS onset is irrelevant to management of the condition, and he would not treat viruses in CFS patients even if detected, because he is "in the business of rehabilitation".[23] Commenting on a study that stated XMRV virus was found in two thirds of CFS patients, Wessely said this research fails to model the role childhood abuse, psychological factors, and other infections may play in the illness.[24]
For his work on CFS, he has been awarded a medal by the Royal College of Physicians.[25]
Opposition and criticismEdit
In an interview published by The Lancet, Wessely admits to both regretting and enjoying the controversy Template:Examples relating to his work on Gulf War syndrome and chronic fatigue syndrome. With hindsight he states that he was keen to get published, could have been more diplomatic, and is now better at handling controversy.[26] The Times of 6 August 2011 described him as "the most hated doctor in Britain": "Curiously, most of the people who hate Professor Wessely have never met him. But over the past two decades they have followed his work from afar, mostly over the internet and what has been written, or — sometimes incorrectly — implied, about him in the papers."[27]
Although Wessely has studied physical markers and allows the possibility of a biological basis to CFS, he is not confident of such a basis and remains sceptical.[28] He has also suggested that campaigners [attribution needed] are motivated "not so much by a dispassionate thirst for knowledge but more by an overwhelming desire to get rid of the psychiatrists" from the area of chronic fatigue syndrome.[29] When asked about severely affected bed-ridden patients, Wessely said "in that kind of disability, psychological factors are important and I don't care how unpopular that statement makes me."[21]
Some CFS patient activist groups [attribution needed] have strongly criticized Wessely,[30] while extremists have gone to the extent of threatening his life.[31] In an article on chronic fatigue syndrome, The Guardian calls criticism from CFS patient advocates [attribution needed] a "vendetta".[28] Wessely has been the subject of numerous threats and personal attacks. "It is a relentless, vicious, vile campaign designed to hurt and intimidate...For some years now all my mail has been x rayed. I have speed dial phones and panic buttons at police request and receive a regular briefing on my safety and specific threats." Wessely gave up active research into CFS 10 years ago and now specialises in working with war veterans. "I now go to Iraq and Afghanistan, where I feel a lot safer".[32]
Military healthEdit
More recently, Wessely's work was the first to show that service in the 1991 Gulf War had had a significant effect on the health of UK servicemen and women. Other work suggested a link to particular vaccination schedules used to protect against biological warfare, and also a link with psychological stress. His group also confirmed that classic psychiatric injury, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), was not a sufficient explanation for the observed health problems. He and his colleagues in the medical school showed persisting evidence of immune activation, but failed to show that exposure to organophosphate or cholinesterase inhibitor agents had caused chronic neurological damage. The group also showed that many veterans who left the Armed Forces with persisting mental health problems have found it difficult to access National Health Service (NHS) services.[citation needed]
This work, Wessely's evidence to the Lloyd Inquiry,[33] and the work of other investigators was crucial in categorising Gulf War Syndrome as a verifiable consequence of service in the Gulf. As a result, affected Gulf War veterans were able to receive war pensions.[34]
He recently spent a sabbatical in the Department of War Studies at King's College London.[1]
Wessely's main current research is around various aspects of military health, including further work on the outcome of Gulf War illness, psychological stressors of military life, risk and risk communication, risk and benefits of military service, screening and health surveillance within the Armed Forces, social and psychological outcomes of ex service personnel, and historical aspects of military psychiatry. In 2006 he and his team completed a study on the health of 20,000 UK military personnel who took part in the invasion of Iraq. The results were published in the medical journal The Lancet.[35]
Other interestsEdit
Wessely also has a long standing interest in how normal people react to adversity, and what, if any, responses are appropriate. He was a co-author of an influential Cochrane Review showing that the conventional response, to offer people who have been involved in disaster immediate psychological debriefing, was not only ineffective, but possibly did more harm than good.[36] Since then he has published on civilian reactions to the Blitz, and latterly an early study of reactions to the July 7, 2005 London bombings.[37]
In many venues, he has argued that people are more resilient than we give them credit for, and that the best thing we can do in the immediate aftermath of trauma is to offer practical support and encourage people to turn to their own social networks, such as family, friends, colleagues or family doctor.[38][39] However, after a few months, when most distress has reduced, then for the minority who are still psychologically distressed or disabled it is appropriate to offer evidence-based psychological interventions.[36]
Wessely has co-authored books on CFS, psychological reactions to terrorism, randomised controlled trials, and a new history of military psychiatry, From Shell Shock to PTSD.[40]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Official homepage at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. Last updated 4 July 2007. Accessed 30 September 2007.
- ↑ Wessely, Prof. Simon Charles, Who's Who 2008, A & C Black, 2008; online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2007 accessed 27 March 2008
- ↑ Directory of the Academy of Medical Sciences - Professor Simon Wessely FMedSci. URL accessed on 2007-10-06.
- ↑ Deary IJ, Wessely S, Farrell M (1985). Dementia and Mrs Thatcher. Br Med J (Clin Res ed) 291 (6511): 1768.
- ↑ Pedal to Paris September 2007, King's Centre for Military Health Research. Last updated 28 September 2007. Accessed 30 September 2007.
- ↑ Newsweek cover story, November 1990.
- ↑ Winkler AS, Blair D, Marsden JT, Peters TJ, Wessely S, Cleare AJ (February 2004). Autonomic function and serum erythropoietin levels in chronic fatigue syndrome. J Psychosom Res 56 (2): 179–83.
- ↑ Wessely S (1995). The epidemiology of chronic fatigue syndrome. Epidemiol Rev 17 (1): 139–51.
- ↑ Wessely S (April 1992). The measurement of fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome. J R Soc Med 85 (4): 189–90.
- ↑ Saisch SG, Deale A, Gardner WN, Wessely S (January 1994). Hyperventilation and chronic fatigue syndrome. Q. J. Med. 87 (1): 63–7.
- ↑ Harvey SB, Wadsworth M, Wessely S, Hotopf M (July 2008). The relationship between prior psychiatric disorder and chronic fatigue: evidence from a national birth cohort study. Psychol Med 38 (7): 933–40.
- ↑ Deale A, Chalder T, Marks I, Wessely S (March 1997). Cognitive behavior therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome: a randomized controlled trial. Am J Psychiatry 154 (3): 408–14.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Sharpe M, Chalder T, Palmer I, Wessely S (May 1997). Chronic fatigue syndrome. A practical guide to assessment and management. Gen Hosp Psychiatry 19 (3): 185–99.
- ↑ Price JR, Mitchell E, Tidy E, Hunot V (2008). Cognitive behaviour therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome in adults. Cochrane Database Syst Rev (3): CD001027.
- ↑ MacLean G, Wessely S (March 1994). Professional and popular views of chronic fatigue syndrome. BMJ 308 (6931): 776–7.
- ↑ Joyce E, Blumenthal S, Wessely S (May 1996). Memory, attention, and executive function in chronic fatigue syndrome. J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatr. 60 (5): 495–503.
- ↑ Skowera A, Cleare A, Blair D, Bevis L, Wessely SC, Peakman M (February 2004). High levels of type 2 cytokine-producing cells in chronic fatigue syndrome. Clin. Exp. Immunol. 135 (2): 294–302.
- ↑ Wessely S (October 1991). History of postviral fatigue syndrome. Br. Med. Bull. 47 (4): 919–41.
- ↑ Hotopf, Matthew; Wessely, Simon; Sharpe, Michael (1998). Chronic fatigue and its syndromes, Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Oxford University Press.
- ↑ GMC biographical sketch: Professor Simon Wessely. General Medical Council. URL accessed on 2008-12-18. [dead link]
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 Wilson, Clare (13 March 2009). Mind over body?. New Scientist (2699).
- ↑ Cope, H, A David, A Mann (1994-02). 'Maybe it's a virus?': beliefs about viruses, symptom attributional style and psychological health. Journal of Psychosomatic Research 38 (2): 89–98.
- ↑ BMJ Group (Podcasts). Chronic fatigue syndrome.
- ↑ Ewen Callaway. Chronic fatigue syndrome linked to 'cancer virus'. New Scientist. URL accessed on 2010-10-31.
- ↑ Parliament proceedings. Parliament of the United Kingdom. URL accessed on 2008-12-18.
- ↑ Watts G (May 2007). Simon Wessely. Lancet 369 (9575): 1783.
- ↑ Marsh, Stefanie. Doctor's hate mail is sent by the people he tried to cure. The Times. URL accessed on August 6, 2011.
- ↑ 28.0 28.1 includeonly>Burne, Jerome. "Special report: battle fatigue", The Guardian, 2002-03-30. Retrieved on 2008-05-15.
- ↑ Wessely, S (2009). Surgery for the treatment of psychiatric illness: the need to test untested theories. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 102 (10): 445–51.
- ↑ Evidence submitted by Professor Malcolm Hooper (NICE 07). Select Committee on Health. Parliament of the United Kingdom. URL accessed on 2009-10-02.
- ↑ Chronic fatigue syndrome researchers face death threats from militants: Scientists are subjected to a campaign of abuse and violence. The Observer.
- ↑ http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.d3780.extract
- ↑ Report of the Lloyd Inquiry ("Gulf War Illness Public Inquiry"), published 17 November 2004.
- ↑ New Scientist US in U-turn over Gulf war syndrome. November 3, 2004.
- ↑ Hotopf M (2006). The health of UK military personnel who deployed to the 2003 Iraq war: a cohort study. Lancet 367 (9524): 1731–41.
- ↑ 36.0 36.1 Rose S, Bisson J, Churchill R, Wessely S (2002). Psychological debriefing for preventing post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Cochrane database of systematic reviews (Online) (2): CD000560.
- ↑ Rubin GJ, Brewin CR, Greenberg N, Simpson J, Wessely S (2005). Psychological and behavioural reactions to the bombings in London on 7 July 2005: cross sectional survey of a representative sample of Londoners. BMJ 331 (7517): 606.
- ↑ Wessely S (2005). The London attacks--aftermath: Victimhood and resilience. N. Engl. J. Med. 353 (6): 548–50.
- ↑ Simon Wessely. "The bombs made enough victims - let's not make more: A leading psychiatrist argues that the last thing Londoners need now is trauma counselling". Spiked-Online.com], July 2005.
- ↑ Simon Wessely, Edgar Jones. Shell Shock to PTSD: Military Psychiatry from 1900 to the Gulf War. Psychology Press, 2005. ISBN 1-84169-580-7.
External linksEdit
- Official homepage
- KCL staff page
- KCL.ac.uk - The King's Centre For Military Health Research (KCMHR) is a joint initiative of the Institute of Psychiatry and the Department of War Studies at King's College London (Wessely's webpage at King's College)
- KCL.ac.uk - "Health & Wellbeing of UK Armed Forces Personnel: Professor Simon Wessely - Principal Investigator", KCMHR
- 'Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue: The true story of Gulf War Syndrome', lecture given at Gresham College, 25 January 2006 (available in text, audio and video formats)
- NATO.int - 'NATO-Russia Advanced Research Workshop on Social and Psychological Consequences of Chemical, Biological, and Radiological Terrorism', Simon Wessely, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (March 25–27, 2002)
- Project-Syndicate.org - 'The Trouble with Treating Trauma', Simon Wessely (August 2003)
- 'Shell Shock or Cowardice? - The case of Harry Farr', lecture given at Gresham College, 1 October 2008 (available in text, audio and video formats)
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HOUSTON - The sun becomes a killer when children are left in cars. An Austin mother is trying to save lives after her own daughter's death.
Kristi Reeves-Cavaliero's world stopped last summer after her baby girl Sophia, nicknamed Ray Ray, was left inside her husband's truck as he drove to his business instead of dropping their 1-year-old daughter off at day care.
"He arrived at his office around 10:30 a.m. and it was around lunch time when we noticed he didn't remember dropping her off," said Reeves-Cavaliero.
An Austin grand jury found Ray Ray's death to be a tragic accident.
"You know he lives in his own private hell every minute of every day knowing he made a mistake that cost us our daughter's life. He loved the child more than anyone on this earth," said Reeves-Cavaliero.
Ray Ray was one of 33 children across the country to die of hyperthermia after they were left in vehicles last year, according to the Department of Geosciences at San Francisco State University. In May of this year, three more children died after they were left inside cars including one from Fort Bend County.
Reeves-Cavaliero and her husband found the strength less than a year after their daughter's death to start Ray Ray's Pledge to warn other parents of these tradegies.
"We actually took my daughter's college fund and started this foundation so it was a sad day to go to the bank and change from a college fund to a non-profit," said the mother, now pregnant with twins.
The non profit foundation is encouraging parents and caregivers to take Ray Ray's Pledge to work together for better communication that may save another child's life.
"Number one, the parent will call anytime the child is going to be late or absent and the teacher on the other hand is going to act as a guardian angel by calling if there child does not arrive on time," said Reeves-Cavaliero.
Ray Ray's mother said her little girl had just turned 1 and was moved into another class at day care. Her new teachers were unaware Reeves-Cavaliero usually called if the child would be late.
"One phone call can save a child's life," said Reeves-Cavaliero. "More than 1 in 5 of all the children who die of hot car deaths were forgotten in the back seat and were suppose to have gone to day care that morning."
The foundation supplies forget-me-not reminders including magnets, key chains and bracelets for parents and caregivers.
Ray Ray's day care teachers came up with the idea for the key chains, and parents are putting the bracelets on gear shifts so they can't put the car into park without seeing the reminder.
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See this? This is a photo one of the other bloggers took of the goodies we received upon checking in at our hotel in LA. Toys. Tattoos. Stickers. CDs.
Here's my guy in the costume, which is sized at 7-8 years. He's not yet 4, 35lbs, and this is long on him but not super big. (It runs small) Isn't it adorable?
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Which is geared for ages 4-7 but honestly, all three of my kids enjoy it. The littlest one just likes to push the buttons and hear the sounds, she, like her mama, loves Mater's voice. The older 2 kids really like the games and since there are different levels/games to play, they can each play at their own level. It also looks JUST like Lightning, although not as long and a good bit wider (there's a QWERTY keyboard so there has to be room for that). The mouse is one of the tires- and it stores right on the laptop. Super cute and super fun, and like all VTech toys my family has tried, great for learning adventures.
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What are the important events that happened on June 12, 1957? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
June 12, 1957: Facts & Myths About This Day
June 12, 1957 is the 163rd day of the year 1957 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 202 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 30, 1957 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
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I haven't read the short story or seen the movie in more than 20 years. I became interested after reading rave reviews of the new Blu-ray edition. It includes this audible story. Well, I listened to it as I drove home. And, it was wonderful. John Cheever's reading is heartfelt and you feel like you are in the room with him. One of the best 20 minutes you can spend with a book. Try it again.
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He gets home and it is not home anymore.has not been for a long time.
The main character the"swimmer" is an exceptional example of a man"s psychological devolution.
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Keystroke-level model, sometimes referred to as KLM or KLM-GOMS, is an approach to human–computer interaction (HCI), developed by David Kieras and based on CMN-GOMS. CMN-GOMS for its part was developed by Card, Moran, and Newell, and explained in their book The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction, 1983. The model is an 11-step method that can be used by individuals or companies seeking ways to estimate the time it takes to complete simple data input tasks using a computer and mouse. By using KLM-GOMS, individuals often find more efficient or better ways to complete a task simply by analyzing the steps required in the process and rearranging or eliminating unneeded steps.
It is designed to be easier to use than other GOMS methods, such that companies who cannot afford human–computer interaction specialists can use it. KLM-GOMS is usually applied in situations that require minimal amounts of work and interaction with a computer interface or software design. The calculations and the number of steps required to accurately compute the overall task time increase quickly as the number of tasks involved increases. Thus, KLM-GOMS is best suited to evaluate and time specific tasks that require, on average, less than 5 minutes to complete.
The KLM-GOMS model is designed to be as straightforward as possible. The sequence of operations is modeled as a sequence of a small number of operations. Each operation is assigned a duration, which is intended to model the average amount of time an experienced user would take to perform it.
Step terminologyEdit
Kieras (1993, 2001) defines the following operations:
- K, key press and release (keyboard)
Best Typist (135 wpm) --- 0.08 seconds Good Typist (90 wpm) --- 0.12 seconds Poor Typist (40 wpm) --- 0.28 seconds Average Skilled Typist (55 wpm) --- 0.20 seconds Average Non-secretary Typist (40 wpm) --- 0.28 seconds Typing Random Letters --- 0.50 seconds Typing Complex Codes --- 0.75 seconds Worst Typist (unfamiliar with keyboard) --- 1.20 seconds
- P, Point the mouse to an object on screen --- 1.10 seconds
- B, Button press or release (mouse) --- 0.10 seconds
- H, Hand from keyboard to mouse or vice versa --- 0.40 seconds
- M, Mental preparation --- 1.20 seconds
- T(n), Type string of characters (n * K sec.)
- W(t), User waiting for the system to respond
- D(n0,l0), Draw n0 straight line segment with mouse of total length l0 centimeters
A mouse click would be written "BB" (button press, button release) while a sequence of 3 keyboard key presses is "AAA" or "T(n)" ("T" stands for "type").
A common operation that involves pointing and clicking something on the screen would be written "MPBB" (think, point, press, release).
KLM is not the only technique for evaluating interfaces, but it can be used to compare the speed of two different interfaces designed to accomplish the same task.
Testing stepsEdit
The following 11 steps were developed based upon the methodologies and ideas of Kieras and Olson-Olson and describe the proper approach to calculate the time it takes to complete a task by using a computer interface and hardware.
Step 1--Obtain a working prototype of computer interface or a step by step operational description of a task.
Step 2--Identify the goals or the desired outcome of work .
Step 3--For each of these goals, find subgoals or tasks that achieve the main goals.
Step 4--Identify methods to main goals and all subgoals.
Step 5--Convert description of methods to pseudo-code (the terminology that is described above).
Step 6--State any and all assumptions used in the making of pseudo-code and goals.
Step 7--Determine appropriate mental or keystroke operators for each step.
Step 8--Assign time values to mental or keystroke operators.
Step 9--Add up execution times for operators.
Step 10-Adjust total time of task to be sensitive by age of expected.
Age Time Adjustment Multiplier (Multiply task time by this value) Use as is 30–40 ??? 40–55 By 1.4 55–60 By 1.7 > 65 By 2.2
Step 11-Verify validity of results
Example CalculationEdit
Change the code in Line 512 from "hte" to "the" ('the'the' in computer language) and then press Enter Key
" Change 512 'hte'the' "
- Mentally prepare
- 6 average speed keystrokes (for word "change")
- 1 average speed keystrokes for space bar
- 3 keystrokes for pressing numbers "512"
- 1 average speed keystrokes for space bar
- Mentally Prepare by reading what needs to be changed
- 6 average keystrokes for typing Template:Not a typo and the
- 3 keystrokes to press the 3 " ' "
- 1 keystroke to press Return Key
K1 = average speed keystrokes (0.20 seconds)
K2 = typing random letters (0.50 seconds)
M = Mentally Prepare (1.35 seconds)
Put above steps into formula: M + 6K1 + K1 + 3K2 + K2 + M + 3K1 + K2 + 3K1 + K2 = 2M + 14K1 + 6K2 = 9.82 seconds
This method assumes that operator times are invariant and do not depend on the previous sequence of events. New physical operators can be added if their timing can be represented as a simple context-free function. KLM-GOMS does not account for either slips or mistakes automatically—the analyst must create separate models of error sequences and perform their own sensitivity analysis.
The placement of the keystrokes and pointer operations are straightforward, but the placement of the mental operations is not. Mental operations are placed by a set of rules that require some interpretation, such as determining a conceptual "cognitive unit" or grouping of actions. For instance, pressing ctrl and c simultaneously to perform a "copy" would be considered a single cognitive unit. Mental operations are inserted before each cognitive unit to account for cognitive preparation and decision-making.
The main reason a designer or analysts would use this technique is that it is a very fast. Different designs or systems can be compared against one another quickly. It does not require that the evaluator be an expert in GOMS because the procedure is an explicitly laid out recipe. A major caution is that the algorithm is designed to estimate the execution time for an expert user, which is typically faster than the time for a new user or an unfamiliar task.
See also Edit
External linksEdit
- The CogTool project at Carnegie Mellon University has developed an open-source tool to support KLM-GOMS analysis.
- GOMS by Lorin Hochstein
- This article incorporates text from Dr. G. Abowd: GOMS Analysis Techniques – Final Essay, which has been released into GFDL by its author (see [1]).
- Card, S.K.; Thomas, T.P.; Newall, A. (1983), The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction, London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, ISBN 0-89859-243-7
- Kieras, D. (1993, 2001), Using the Keystroke-Level Model to Estimate Execution Times, On-line handout, http://www.ict.griffith.edu.au/marilyn/uidweek10/klm.pdf
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This is a favorite main dish of my husband. It has a sweet yet tart sauce which is so delicious.—Sheri Oganowski, Dayton, Ohio
- 1 boneless pork loin roast (about 3 pounds)
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 teaspoon dried rosemary, crushed
- 1/2 teaspoon poultry seasoning
- 2 cups diced fresh or frozen rhubarb, thawed and drained
- 1/3 cup honey
- 1/4 cup cider vinegar
- 6 whole cloves
- 3/4 teaspoon ground mustard
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1. Rub the roast with garlic, rosemary and poultry seasoning. Place roast, fat side up, on a greased rack in a roasting pan. Bake, uncovered, at 350°: for 1-1/4 hours.
- 2. Meanwhile, in a saucepan, combine the remaining ingredients; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer for 10 minutes. Pour half over roast.
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On Monday, we discovered we had to type all of Tonica Grade School's letters to Santa into our system so they could be placed and published for Friday's Tonica News. Students from kindergarten through fifth grade submitted their questions for Santa, their Christmas lists, their family traditions and other various thoughts.
Reading their letters was tough at times, but their earnestness and sincerity showed through regardless of legibility. Kids asked Santa about Rudolph and his other, less famous reindeer, Mrs. Claus and of course the elves who are responsible for making lots and lots of toys. How they will make some gifts on the lists, I will never know.
Plenty of these kids said their favorite holiday memory revolved around the aspect of seeing family. This gave me hope for our future generations. In today's society where we are so busy and wrapped in our own lives and drama it is good to see families still find the time to come together and celebrate the Christmas season. I know I look forward to the time I spend with my family more than anything else during Christmas.
But it was the Christmas lists that took me most by surprise. I remember some of my lists and they did not include the hottest new tech gadgets. I asked for dolls, books, movies and clothes. I remember getting American Girl dolls for Christmas and my Nunny making me a whole wardrobe and little doll bedding. And books, I always loved getting books. I would love nothing more than to curl up in my bedroom with a book and an endless supply of hot chocolate when I was younger. Wait, I still love that. Then there was the occasional movie, I was, and still am, such a Harry Potter fanatic so we got those movies and others. It gave us something to watch during the day while we played with our new gifts before dinner.
In comparison, I like to think my Christmas lists and letters to Santa were tamer than what I read. Seven or 8 year olds were asking for phones. Kids are asking for iPods, TVs and all sorts of other things. I don't think I got my first Mp3 player until I was in eighth grade or high school even. I didn't get my own phone till I turned 16, once I got my driver's license. You see my parents wanted to make sure in case of an emergency I could reach the proper authorities and alert them to the problem. And maybe that's because growing up, I knew I wouldn't get a toy every time I went to the store with my mom, but she always made sure to tell me "I'll always get you a book," so I didn't ask.
Maybe as time has gone on values have changed and children no longer see Santa as a magical, mystical man traveling through the night to deliver gifts to the good little girls and boys and coal to the bad. Maybe we, as a society, need to step back from the all too alluring technical marvels being churned out by Samsung, Apple and Sony year after year.
This year my Christmas list, because even at 23 I still send one out, includes lots of books, a tea pot and time. Time with my family to reconnect and share in the joy we all deserve to have this Christmas. I hope you all take time to disconnect from the electronic world we are so engrossed in and share a cup of good cheer with your loved ones.
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FOLLOWING extensive public consultation, works to improve leisure facilities at Lords Meadow Leisure Centre in Crediton are about to start The fitness studio is being extended and refurbished throughout and fitness equipment is being upgraded. The fitness and dance class studio storage area is being increased to house new spinning bikes and the main sports hall is also being given a complete facelift.
Works should be completed by March 22 and disruption kept to a minimum as far as possible, but there will be an impact on some centre users.
Lee Chester, centre manager, said: "On Thursday, February 7, the fitness studio will close at 10.30am so that the equipment can be moved downstairs to the sports hall as a temporary measure during building works.
"We hope that the temporary studio will be open from Friday 8 or Saturday 9 February. Full details will be available on our website and Facebook page.
"We realise that moving the gym into the sports hall will have a knock-on effect on court availability, so that only two of the usual four courts will be available. The refurbishment work also includes the total redecoration of the sport hall, from floor to ceiling. This will revive the hall and improve the playing environment for court sports and other users. The floor will be sanded, re-lined and sealed and the dividing nets will be replaced."
"The sauna will be closed for the whole period of refurbishment. Work to the first floor gym area will start from Monday 11 February and work in the dance studio will commence on Monday 18 February. The fitness and aerobics classes will continue as near as possible to the regular programme, but there will be a few adaptations due to the work."
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Virtualized or Not? We've Got Numbersby Johan De Gelas on 2/15/2012 9:24 AM EST
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MonkeyPaw - Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - linkI run virtual machines on my home PC (Phenom X4). It's a nice way to sample different linux distros without resorting to partitioning or buying and installing a second HDD. Also, if one jumps to linux, yet still needs windows for occasional tasks, a VM is much quicker than a reboot. I know coupon printing refuses to work in linux, and IE in wine just doesn't work. Reply
HMTK - Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - linkIn most cases it's not a even question whether to virtualize or not since it doesn't make sense not to virtualize. That "VMware" (ESX/ESXi perhaps?) is the most widely used hypervisor should not be a surprise either. It's got a considerable install base, excellent third party support and it's just damn good. Too bad VMware has pissed off many users with it's licensing changes. KVM and Xen are not the big contenders right now: Hyper-V is. I'd like to this graph again a year from now. Reply
JohanAnandtech - Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - linkCould not agree more. VMware vSphere is a rock solid, high performing and "keep its promises" software...that is rare in the software world. But people who like to kill the goose with golden eggs always manage to get into the management of successful enterprises. The current licensing is really driving people into the arms of Microsoft, which is growing 3 times as fast. Reply
Braumin - Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - linkYeah I have to agree that there basically is no x86 workload anymore that can't be run on VMware. vSphere 5 has really increased the virtual maximums.
I need to look at Hyper-V though. As expected, they had a mediocre product at launch, but have been aggresively updating it to close the feature gap with VMware. They are still behind, but way less than even 2 years ago. Reply
esSJae - Monday, February 20, 2012 - linkAh, how do you run ESXi on Ubuntu server? ESXi installs on the hardware level. I'd guess that the VMWare here is either Player, Workstation, or Server.
From the survey: "If you use your Ubuntu servers as a host for virtualisation, which product(s)/technology(ies) do you use?" Reply
PreOmegaZero - Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - linkYou can run ESXi in a VM. HOW they are doing it is the interesting part: KVM or Workstation for Linux running an ESXi VM? Reply
physical - Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - linkIt is interesting to note that Hyper-V doesn't appear on the graph. We are implementing a Hyper-V solution in our infrastructure.
It's also too bad that all of VMware's products are grouped together in a single statistic. Reply
Guspaz - Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - linkThe graph is a survey by Canonical of customers using Ubuntu Server. Hyper-V does not support Ubuntu Server, and so will probably never appear on the graph.
Hyper-V only supports SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and CentOS. Yes, you might technically be able to run other distributions inside of it, but you'll rarely find that kind of a thing in enterprise (running unsupported operating systems). Reply
cbf - Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - linkActually, I think you'll find that Microsoft is creeping closer and closer to supporting a wider variety of Linux distributions on Hyper-V. (See http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/02/microsoft_... -- admittedly that article is in The Register).
I expect some sort of official announcement might not be that far away. It appears that the Hyper-V guys are eager to do what they need to do to take business away from VMWare.
We're currently running Ubuntu server under Hyper-V, but we did have to struggle around some kernel bugs with Hyper-V's network cards. Interestingly enough though, the fixes we needed were checked in to the Linux kernel by Microsoft employees. Reply
Shining Arcanine - Sunday, February 19, 2012 - linkcbf, I think you misunderstood Guspaz's comment. Canonical did a survey to determine what software people used to virtualize software on a Ubuntu host OS. Unless Microsoft plans to make Ubuntu a future host OS for Hyper-V, this is unlikely to change. Reply
apinkel - Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - linkLike pretty much any other technology, virtualization has it's place. But before rollout it does need to be tested pretty extensively for the intended use and the environment it will run in.
In the environment I work in we've encountered issues with time sync between virtualized servers to the point that that we haven't been able to roll this out in anything other than development servers (where it is very handy). Reply
Braumin - Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - linkWhat kind of OS are you having issues with? Timesync has been an issue on older kernels of Linux, but there are work arounds that fix it. Reply
apinkel - Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - linkIt's redhat... but I'm not sure what release they ran into the issues with. We have a large deployment so our releases lag behind by quite a bit. Reply
Braumin - Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - linkHere is a great article on the problem:
We used clock=pit on our bootloaders for SLES, and it completely corrected the issues we were having. NTP is of course still needed to keep it accurate.
Newer Linux kernels support tickless timekeeping so this has been fixed. Reply
Bert Bouwhuis - Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - linkSince these were 6000 Ubuntu server users, it IS surprising that VMware is the number 1 hypervisor being used. It is NOT surprising that Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer are not used though. Reply
JesseOsby - Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - linkI've read Google produces their own hardware, and Johan's recent article on Facebook's "Open Compute" initiative indicates they are heading in that direction too. I don't know about Intel, but since they produce motherboards already, seems like they might produce their own internal servers as well.
All three would probably sub out the actual manufacturing, but still, would that be counted as a "purchase"?
If not, it seems these players would not be skewing the numbers after all. Reply
Sivar - Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - linkThis tells me Ubuntu is used more in the enterprise than I thought. VMWare is "not OSS", so pure Linux geeks would tend to avoid it. (I use VMWare but not for enterprise servers).
On a side note, I think it's amazing that even a writer for a technical, geeky site like Canonical's blog uses JPG image format for something like bar charts.
That's like powering your alarm clock directly with an internal combustion engine generating heat to make elements glow to get electricity from a solar panel. It technically works, but it's a horrible tool for the job. Reply
beginner99 - Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - linkWell they asked Ubuntu Server users not all Ubuntu users. Server version has no GUI so it is probably only used for servers (And not by linux geeks) and hence explains this. Reply
Sivar - Thursday, February 16, 2012 - linkYou are right in that Ubuntu Server includes no GUI for the default install, but adding one is a single command (and a lot of downloading) away.
Of course, that implies the installer needs to know the Linux command-line interface. Reply
HMTK - Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - linkThat would mean that Linux geeks should never make business decisions :-) Reply
TheNuts - Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - linkNot sure why you would not use VMware in your Enterprise. I am a VI Admin and have 200+ VMware VMs in my Enterprise. The VMs consist of running Tier1 (Exchange, SQL, SAP, etc) to Tier3 (File, Print, DCs, etc) apps running a mix of Windows and Linux OS's. Very, very few issues. No reason to be afraid of running just about anything on a VM in an enterprise environment. Reply
L-Set - Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - linkI've been working in presales for reseller for over 18 months and quoting servers/storage/networking is pretty much my daily bread and butter. When I started my job I would have said about 30% (maybe 40%) of servers we quoted/specced were for virtualisation projects. Now I would easily say that figure is closer to 70%. Reply
dgingeri - Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - linkI don't see Hyper-V listed anywhere. I have 3 Hyper-V hosts here at work running a total of 10 VMs for test lab infrastructure, with plans for two more. (The hosts are small, only a single processor and 16GB of memory, and that was intentional.) Why wouldn't it be listed? Reply
dgingeri - Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - linkDuh, I didn't read far enough into the article before posting. Of course Hyper-V isn't listed: Ubuntu 10 and up won't work as a VM in Hyper-V. Neither does RedHat 6 or CentOS 6. I know, I've tried. RedHat and CentOS 5 work OK, but they have some minor issues. (I actually have 2 DNS/DHCP servers running CentOS5 as Hyper-V virtual machines, so it can be done.) So, yeah, no Hyper-V numbers.
Hyper-V is really only designed around making more Windows virtual machines, and doesn't support Linux very well. Reply
Guspaz - Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - linkHyper-V officially supports CentOS 6 (both 6.0 and 6.1), so if you can't get it running, you're probably doing something wrong:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc79486... Reply
dgingeri - Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - linkI know. I've seen their documentation on it. Maybe it's the server (Dell R310) or the processor (Xeon X3470) that I'm using, but when I install it, it sees all optical disks or isos I mount as blank DVDs and the network won't work. (Yes, I'm using the "legacy network adapter".) That makes it kind of hard to work with. Reply
esSJae - Monday, February 20, 2012 - linkStill didn't read far enough. The survey asked: ""If you use your Ubuntu servers as a host for virtualisation, which product(s)/ technology(ies) do you use?"
Hyper-V doesn't run on Linux, neither does ESXi. The virtualization technologies used are running on top of Ubuntu Server. Reply
alpha754293 - Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - linkLike any tool, there is a time and place for them.
I virtualize so that if Windows, being the virus/scam/malware magnet that it is, gets hit, I can always just restore to a checkpoint rather than spending days trying to hunt it down leading to a reformat and reinstall.
Personally, I like VirtualBox. It's relatively quick, but most importantly, it's easy to use.
I haven't tried any of the new VMWares, or any of the other Hypervisors, but since VirtualBox works for me, I really don't see much of a need to.
It'd be interesting to see if virtualization can be profiled to see which parts of the system it taxes. Reply
LoupeGarou - Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - linkI work for a large hospital and we use Vmware. We Use vms for test systems and backup systems for our production stuff. For the most part other than that we us it to replace any low end system that would just sit there and waste space and power. We have replaced almost ALL of our little Desktop/server boxes with vms. The only ones we don' replace are the ones with special pci modems or other items that would be cumbersome in a vm.
Now VMware has changed their licensing for Vsphere 5 and that is going to cause us to look at Microsoft and Citrix virtualization options.
For our New citrix/EMR enviroment our EMR folks told us they use vmware to host their servers. But with only 2 vms running per host that cost gets pretty bad (current Vsphere 4.0) compared to just building physical boxes. I think VM's have their place but for me its not Full scale production, its a balance between the two. Reply
dgingeri - Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - linkVMs are great for situations where you can only get massively overblown hardware, such as DNS and DHCP. I have a couple Dell R310 servers running 4 DNS servers each, 4 subnets/vlans with one set backing up the other set, and two infrastructure servers, one running infrastructure storage and one running WDS, and two remote desktop machines for the testers to interface with the IPMI on the test servers for builds. Even with that, the quad core processors in those R310s are barely getting used. <$2000, 4 cores on the processor, 16GB of memory, 2TB of hard drive space, and it's barely taxing the servers. Both hosts running Win2k8R2 and using Hyper-V, half the VMs use Win2k8R2 as well, the others run CentOS.
There are other uses for VMs, but for me, this is the best. It fits Hyper-V's restrictions and weaknesses, as well. I wouldn't want to use VMWare, as it would cost three times as much. Others are available, but the Windows licensing costs would go up.
With Win2k8R2 Enterprise, the license includes up to 5 virtual machines under one $1000 license. So, we set this whole thing up for just under $6000. Without Hyper-V, it would have been 12 servers and 6 Windows licenses, and a ton of overblown hardware that barely gets used. Reply
mitcoes - Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - linkQemu with KVM or XEN being OSS should have more share.
I would like to read benchmarks for MS WOS and GNU/Linux OSs native vs virtualized, with different programs. Specially Xen with VGA passthrought, where MS WOS performs very good for games and better with no resident antivirus vs bative with resident antivirus for SOHO directx gamers.
Of course not only benchmarks for gamers, it is not the issue here, multi virtualization with several virtual servers at one machine is what is on demand, and I would like to see benchmarking for software and hardware.
Perhaps here AMD performs better than Intel having more cores, but i want to compare it with benchmarks not with market share. Reply
Einy0 - Sunday, February 19, 2012 - linkBoth of my jobs use VMs for nearly all the servers. They both use Blade Centers with tons of VMs on them. One job site uses a mix of about 45% MS / 5% Linux / 50% AS\400 (IBM Power 770). At least 75% of the MS/Linux boxes are VMs running on vsphere on the Bladecenter. The AS/400 is basically virtualized at it's heart anyway. The other job has a total of about 560 VMs all running on vsphere. That's a mix of servers and desktops clients. 75% of the all the desktops are VMs running on Bladcenters. We use mostly RDP sessions on the client side. The other 25% of our desktop machines are used in situations where accelerated video or 3D is needed CAD/CAM/video editing and such. VMs and RDP sessions do not work well for that just yet. All of our servers(primarily SLES) are running on vSphere. We've even gone so far as to recycle old desktops into rdp clients. We can more readily share the given computing resources needed this way while remaining efficient and keeping our operating costs in check. It also makes management a cinch. If a given user's VM gets a virus, corrupted or what not we can simply revert it to the last snapshot. The user looses no data because all that is kept on the SAN. We provide a great user experience because our servers are equipped with lots of RAM and RAID10 SSD arrays. We can afford to upgrade our servers because the desktops and notebooks(rdp client based) don't need to be constantly upgraded and maintained. Users can log into a machine anywhere on our campus and get their own desktop, with their own files and programs they always use. Reply
Jaybus - Monday, February 20, 2012 - linkIn trying to determine if the use of VMs has increased, it is first necessary to determine a baseline. Increased from what? VMs have been used extensivley in the enterprise world since the release of VM/370 in 1972. I worked for a company in the late 80's where every development team had their own VM and the production systems ran in VMs. Nobody kept tabs on it. It was just assumed that things worked that way at a IBM mainframe shop. Fast forward past the period when x86 processors simply weren't powerful enough to worry about VMs, I have been using VMWare xen, and now kvm for several years. As usual, the advances made decades ago in the mainframe world are being repeated in the x86 world. And once again, nobody kept tabs on VM use, at least at first. So, there is no baseline for a comparison. Nevertheless, we can be assured that VMs are being extensively used now that x86 systems are powerful enough for the job. It's not like we haven't known the benefits of virtualization for many decades. Reply
Notmyusualid - Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - linkI'm a network engineer, for a global leader of telecoms equipment, and their 'craft' (think config environment) requires a MS SQL database running, and the application simply hates to run on anything but XP (and 32bit at that).
At work we've tried all the usual suspects to get around this (who has 32bit XP on their new laptops now?), compatibility mode, XP mode to name a couple, with varied results. So, enter VM Ware with 32bit XP, and boom - config environment fires right up, on whatever host OS.
Getting all the above running & configured, for people who are (but shouldn't be) in this job, and over the phone, is like trying to heard cats & makes me want to strap explosives to myself, as I'm usually the one told to bail them out...
And the beauty is, I can hand my saved VM to the less-clued-up-colleague, pre-configured for the network environment he is about to visit (over a GigE connection of course), and know that he can perform his tasks on arrival.
If VM was a girl - I'd kiss it! Reply
ravib123 - Sunday, October 04, 2015 - linkI know for us one of the reasons to use vmware as our hypervisor was the licensing costs actually saved us money.
We were able to easily implement VSAN instead of handling storage and compute separately.
This wouldn't be the case if we were using a different storage solution.
In fact we deploy a lot of Hyper-V (by far the most), then KVM, then VMWare ... so I think we're very nearly the opposite of this chart. Reply