This paper presents the results of a survey of human emotional responses to a set of audio-visual prompts or cues designed for assistive technology applications. Our goal in this paper is exploratory: we wish to understand how audio-visual prompts are understood by people on an emotional spectrum as a first step towards the more challenging task for designing emotionally aligned prompts for per...

Today, laypersons often consult the Internet to inform themselves about health-related issues. However, the competent use of these often complex and heterogeneous information provisions cannot be taken for granted, because many Internet users are lacking the necessary metacognitive prerequisites. Therefore, we developed the metacognitive computer-tool met.a.ware, which supports laypersons’ Inte...

Results of an analogue functional analysis indicated that noncompliant vocal behavior exhibited by a young girl with autism was maintained by negative reinforcement. Follow-up analyses suggested that the immediate escape contingency assessed in the demand condition did not appear to maintain the behavior. Instead, noncompliant vocal behavior occurred in response to directive prompts. Nondirecti...

Objectives To determine whether postal prompts to patients who have survived an acute coronary event and to their general practitioners improve secondary prevention of coronary heart disease. Design Randomised controlled trial. Setting 52 general practices in east London, 44 of which had received facilitation of local guidelines for coronary heart disease. Participants 328 patients admitted to ...