We investigated the relationship between age and laughing and smiling in children with Angelman syndrome. Twenty-four children with Angelman syndrome were exposed to three experimentally manipulated conditions: proximity only, restricted social interaction, and social interaction. Children smiled the most in the social interaction condition and the least in the proximity only condition confirmi...

Smiling has a big influence on our every-day social interaction. In this article, the impact of smiling when applied to a virtual agent that serves as a health advisor is studied. Using experimental evidence from literature, three different types of smiles are compared in a fictional situation after being modeled on a virtual agent. These scenarios have been rated by test subjects in a practica...

Albert Einstein said ‘I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious’ [1]. It’s hard to read the first sentence without smiling! But second explains very believably what drove Einstei...

OBJECTIVES To explore whether there is a relationship between children's objectively determined oral health status and their oral health-related quality of life, specifically the evaluations of their smiles as assessed by the children, their parents, and through measurements of the children's videotaped smiles. METHODS Chart review data were collected from 99 children (56 boys, 43 girls; aver...