Not completing the undergraduate course in the time expected in the curricula can put the universities and students at a disadvantage, with a delay to enter the labor market. The aim was to identify predictors of graduation, considering social skills, mental health, initial academic performance and socio-demographic and academic characteristics. In total, 287 students participated, of both genders and from the humanities, exact and biological areas, who answered the instruments: Social Skills, Behaviors and Context Assessment Questionnaire for University Students, Short version of the Social Phobia Inventory, Beck Depression Inventory, and Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV. Predictors were: female, humanities area and average or above-average initial academic performance. The social skills and mental health differentiated the groups in the univariate analyses. This data suggests a need for attention to academic performance in the initial stages of the course, and preventive measures for male students of the exact and biological areas.

Citation for published version (APA):Miller, A., Malasig, J., Castro, B., Hanson, V., Nicolau, H., & Brandão, A. (2017). The use of smart glasses for lecture comprehension by deaf and hard of hearing students. 1909-1915. Paper presented at CHI 2017 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Denver, United States. General rightsCopyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in Discovery Research Portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights.• Users may download and print one copy of any publication from Discovery Research Portal for the purpose of private study or research.• You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain.• You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal. Take down policyIf you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. The Use of Smart Glasses for Lecture Comprehension by Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students AbstractDeaf and hard of hearing students must constantly switch between several visual sources to gather all necessary information during a classroom lecture (e.g., instructor, slides, sign language interpreter or captioning). Using smart glasses, this research tested a potential means to reduce the effects of visual field switches, proposing that consolidating sources into a single display may improve lecture comprehension. Results showed no statistically significant comprehension improvements with the glasses, but interviews indicated that participants found it easier to follow the lecture with glasses and saw the potential for them in the classroom. Future work highlights priorities for smart glasses consideration and new research directions.

Salina-Brandão, A. Desempenho acadêmico de universitários, variáveis preditoras: habilidades sociais, saúde mental, características sociodemográficas e escolares.

Estratégias terapêuticas descritas como eficazes em transtornos de ansiedade envolvem procedimentos comportamentais e cognitivo-comportamentais de exposição a enfrentamento de situações aversivas. Entretanto, considerando-se que o padrão comportamental comum a estes transtornos é a esquiva fóbica, o uso de tais estratégias pode dificultar a adesão ou promover fuga/esquiva do e no processo terapêutico. A Psicoterapia Analítica Funcional surge como alternativa para manejo dos comportamentos de esquiva e para promoção de respostas de enfrentamento. Este estudo apresenta a análise da relação terapêutica de um caso de Transtorno de Pânico com Agorafobia. A intervenção baseada na FAP foi adotada para auxiliar no manejo do padrão de esquiva do processo terapêutico apresentado pela cliente. Os resultados demonstram a efetividade dos procedimentos adotados e confirmam a possibilidade de utilização da FAP para aumento da eficácia de terapias empiricamente baseadas.

The conclusion of the undergraduate course by university students in the time predicted by the curriculum is desirable for young people and for society. The aim was to verify the reliability, sensitivity and specificity of a broad set of predictors for academic performance of university students, who completed the undergraduate course within the time predicted by the curricula, through data mining methodology, provided by the Support Vector Machines algorithm. A simple approach is proposed for the prediction of course completion by students in a university in Brazil. The dataset has 170 students who finished the course and 117 who did not finish. With the proposed methodology, it was possible to predict the course completion by students with an accuracy of 79.5% when using the 19 original variables. An accuracy of 75% was found using only 05 variables: Course, year of the course, gender, initial and final academic performance.