322 subjects participated in an experimental study to investigate the effects of tactile, olfactory, audio and visual sensory cues on a participant's sense of presence in a virtual environment and on their memory for the environment and the objects in that environment. Results strongly indicate that increasing the modalities of sensory input in a virtual environment can increase both the sense ...

OBJECTIVE To describe patterns of disclosure of symptoms experienced among people in the general population to persons in their personal and/or professional network. DESIGN A population-based cross-sectional study. Data were collected from a web-based survey. SETTING The general population in Denmark. PARTICIPANTS 100 000 individuals randomly selected, representative of the adult Danish p...

conclusions our findings showed that, through seeking information, patients try to achieve well-being and realize their personal rights as well as their right to security. they should also be encouraged to enhance their quality of life by using the knowles’ learning theory to formulate their needs and learning priorities. results during the analysis process, three main themes were extracted tha...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To explore the patients' experiences of receiving patient-centred personal body care and to document changes compared to the patients' experiences in previous hospital stays. BACKGROUND Patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease suffer from breathlessness. Personal body care is therefore often a major challenge, and during exacerbation these patients may ne...

abstract aim and background: the key purpose of the study was to investigation the relationship of job burnout and some of job variables like type and level of responsibility, service and mangement experiences. method and materials: this descriptive study was conducted on 245 managers and vice-chancellors randomly selected by the cluster-sampling technique. they were assessed by job burnout que...

This paper is a subjective view based on 8 years of personal experience in teleradiology. We think the results are of interest to telemedicine in general. Telemedicine is a broad field, which can be defined in different ways. A Japanese definition of 1996 described it as ‘‘... the use of any electrical signal to transmit medical information...’’ [1]. This is a very technical and simplistic view...

Adolescent egocentrism can be divided into two separate forms: the imaginary audience and the personal fable. The first relates to the adolescent living life believing he is constantly being watched and judged by others, and that others are as concerned with his appearance and behaviour as he himself is.[1] The personal fable results in the adolescent perceiving himself as special and unique, b...

The exchange of personal experiences is a way of supporting decision making and interpersonal communication. In this article, we discuss how augmented personal memories could be exploited in order to support such a sharing. We start with a brief summary of a system implementing an augmented memory for a single user. Then, we exploit results from interviews to define an example scenario involvin...