An embarrassing handicap

Percent change was and is an embarrassing mistake.

Case of Twins, Accompanied with Embarrassing Circumstances

Case of Twins, accompanied with embarrassing Circumstances. By M. Leveque, M. D. Madam R. 19 years of age, of small stature, and extremely delicate organization, became pregnant shortly after marriage. During the first three months she was much harrassed with giddiness and continual vomiting, which reduced her to such a state of emaciation and debility, that she was forced to use ass's milk for...

Handicap versus impairment: an important distinction.

In this era of spiraling health care costs, audiologists are being held accountable for the rehabilitative interventions that they are uniquely qualified to deliver. Accountability data in the rehabilitative arena should address the efficacy of short- and long-term treatment. If a treatment such as a hearing aid is dispensed for the purpose of reducing the communicative and psychosocial handica...

The Handicap Principle Is an Artifact

The handicap principle is one of the most influential ideas in evolutionary biology. It asserts that when there is conflict of interest in a signaling interaction signals must be costly in order to be reliable. While in evolutionary biology it is a common practice to distinguish between indexes and fakable signals, we argue this dichotomy is an artifact of existing popular signaling models. Onc...

CHI 2015 Workshop “ Embarrassing Interactions ” Collected Papers

Wherever the rapid evolution of interactive technologies disrupts standing situational norms, creates new, often unclear situational audiences, or crosses cultural boundaries, embarrassment is likely. This makes embarrassment a fundamental adoption and engagement hurdle, but also a creative design space for human-computer interaction. However, research on embarrassment in HCI has remained scatt...