This paper answers an important question concerning the effectiveness of anthropomorphic user interface feedback. The issue of effectiveness has been unresolved for some time, despite the efforts of various prominent computer scientists. By means of a carefully controlled tractable experiment, significant statistical evidence has been found to suggest that anthropomorphism at the user interface...

Children have less motivation to eat vegetables. In other condition, animated films as learning media are considered effective in creating emotion and influencing the audience. This inspires Ministry of Health Republic Indonesia make film “Ayo Makan Sayur dan Buah” a campaign encourage children The purpose this study was determine visuals vegetable characters used invite consume qualitative res...

Employing a narrative comprehension task procedure, this study tests the hypothesis that engagement in Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava religious practices, which are aimed at cultivating a personal relationship with the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa, predict increased implicit attribution of anthropomorphic properties to him. Contrary to our hypothesis, multiple regression analyses of data from 184 native Krishna devotee...

Introduction: The use of electronic portal imaging devices (EPIDs) is a method for the dosimetric verification of radiotherapy plans both pretreatment and in-vivo. The aim of this study was to test a 2D EPID-based dosimetry algorithm for dose verification of some plans inside a homogenous and anthropomorphic phantom and in-vivo, as well. Materials and Methods: </strong...

BACKGROUND Body Mass Index (BMI) as a marker of obesity is an established risk factor for chronic kidney disease (CKD) and cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, BMI can overestimate obesity. Anthropomorphic measurements that include central fat deposition are emerging as a more important risk factor. We studied BMI, waist circumference (WC), waist-to-height ratio (WHtR), waist-to-hip ratio (WH...

Most software agent lifecycles are designed in such a way that they mimic the lifecycles of humans (anthropomorphism). This position paper presents a set of operations for software agents which have no immediate biological analogies, such as splitting and merging agents. We argue through a series of scenarios the potential benefits of this approach. We present a method to implement these operat...