Selecting and supporting contented doctors

Selecting Tomorrow’s Doctors

Traditionally medical schools have relied on performance in knowledge-based examinations for selection and although these distinguish academically able applicants, it is often the failure to develop non-cognitive competencies such as motivation and/or empathy and ability to communicate that lead to problems for doctors in their professional lives. If we accept that we want our doctors to have t...

Supporting empathetic interactions between doctors and patients

Copyright is held by the author/owner(s). CHI’13, April 27 – May 2, 2013, Paris, France. ACM 978-1-XXXX-XXXX-X/XX/XX. Introduction and motivation Empathy and empathetic communication skills are gaining in importance in medical community [9, 1, 4, 3], with various communication skills courses existing for students as well as practicing doctors. To quote Brown [2], the topic has recently raised f...

Supporting Mobile Users in Selecting Target Devices

The availability of applications able to exploit multi-device environments is steadily increasing. Rather than using all devices in the same way, users tend to assign different roles to devices due to the capabilities needed, such as computational power and screen size. Researchers and developers have started to introduce various techniques and tools to support managing applications across mult...

Selecting tomorrow's doctors--not a level playing field.

Inattentive and Contented: Relationship Commitment and Attention to Alternatives

Commitment to a relationship is affected by the quality of one's alternatives to that partnership, but one must be aware of those alternatives in order for them to be influential. In a study of the links between attention to one's alternatives and relational outcomes, participants described their relationships, inspected slides of attractive opposite-sex targets, and, 2 months later, reported w...