In an early effort to establish his credentials as a “compassionate conservative” during the 2000 presidential campaign, George W. Bush pledged that if he were elected, he would create a commission to conduct a comprehensive review of the care of people with mental illness — the first such examination to be undertaken in almost 25 years. In April 2002, in fulfillment of his campaign pledge, Bus...

Two forms of thinking about the future are distinguished: expectations versus fantasies. Positive expectations (judging a desired future as likely) predicted high effort and successful performance, but the reverse was true for positive fantasies (experiencing one's thoughts and mental images about a desired future positively). Participants were graduates looking for a job (Study 1), students wi...

Definition The Supplantation Effect describes a function of media that conducts a mental operation by an external representation. If a learner is not able to accomplish a mental, covert operation internally and an external representation is able to replace this process, supplantation occurs. External representation supporting supplantation can either be static representations like graphs or dyn...

Technology is both empowering and enslaving. The mental health effects are real. A collaborative effort needs to occur among the real “influencers”: educators, families, policy makers, social media platform organizations.

This study aimed to compare a neuropsychological test tapping into executive control function, the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST), performed in either traditional paper-and-pencil (PP) or virtual reality (VR) modality, and determine role of human factors (i.e., sense presence, cybersickness, field (in)dependence video game experience) as contributors performance perceived mental effort. Ind...

Background Many probationers have serious mental disorders that complicate supervision. Compared to their relatively healthy counterparts, probationers with mental disorder (PMDs) are at double the risk of probation failure and incarceration. In an effort to improve outcomes for PMDs, some U.S. jurisdictions have developed specialty mental health caseloads. In these specialty programs, officers...

Video analytics has become a very important topic in computer vision. Many applications and different approaches have been proposed in different fields. This paper introduces a new information visualisation technique that aims to reduce the mental effort of security operators. A video analytics and a HCI module have been developed to reach the desired goal. Video analysis are exploited to compu...