Professional communities are experiencing scandals involving unethical and illegal practices daily. Yet it should not take a national major structure failure to highlight the importance of ethical awareness and behavior, or the need for the development and practice of ethical behavior in engineering students. Development of ethical behavior skills in future engineers is a key competency for eng...

This paper presents part of an on-going project to integrate perception, attention, drives, emotions, behavior arbitration, and expressive acts for a robot designed to interact socially with humans. We present the design of a visual attention system based on a model of human visual search behavior from Wolfe (1994). The attention system integrates perceptions (motion detection, color saliency, ...

AIM To investigate whether different sequences of 'change talk' utterances within a brief motivational intervention (BMI) are associated with drinking outcomes. DESIGN Speech content analysis of recorded BMI. SETTING BMI delivered in an emergency department for at-risk drinking. PARTICIPANTS Ninety-seven subjects who received a BMI. MEASUREMENTS Ninety-seven BMI were coded in duplicate ...

This paper presents part of an on-going project to integrate perception, attention, drives, emotions, behavior arbitration, and expressive acts for a robot designed to interact socially with humans. We present the design of a visual attention system based on a model of human visual search behavior from Wolfe (1994). The attention system integrates perceptions (motion detection, color saliency, ...

This paper presents part of an on-going project to integrate perception, attention, drives, emotions, behavior arbitration, and expressive acts for a robot designed to interact socially with humans. We present the design of a visual attention system based on a model of human visual search behavior from Wolfe (1994). The attention system integrates perceptions (motion detection, color saliency, ...

This study examines the effectiveness of a singlesession group motivational enhancement intervention with college students adjudicated for violation of alcohol policy. The intervention consisted of a Timeline Followback assessment of drinking, social norms re-education, decisional balance for behavior change, relapse prevention, expectancy challenge, and the generation of behavioral goals. All ...

The motivational interviewing skills code (MISC) was used to review 86 audiotaped interactions between clinicians and patients participating in a smoking cessation intervention. Intraclass correlations (ICCs) were completed for two of the MISC elements: global evaluations and behavior counts. Results indicate 75% of the global ratings yielded ICCs in the good to excellent range, while only 44% ...

OBJECTIVES Relationships among cognitive and motivational factors in predicting medical help-seeking for Alzheimer's disease (AD) symptoms were tested. METHOD Community residents awaiting jury service (N = 280) completed questionnaires, including responses to a vignette depicting prototypical early symptoms of AD in a hypothetical mother. Cognitive responses to the vignette included AD sympto...