Modern industrial robots are increasingly moving toward collaborating with people on complex tasks as team members, and away from working in isolated cages that are separated from people. Collaborative robots are programmed to use social communication techniques with people, enabling human team members to use their existing inter-personal skills to work with robots, such as speech, gestures, or...

A protracted debate has persisted throughout the history of psychoanalysis concerning transference phenomena and how they resemble or diverge from ordinary relationships outside the analytic situation. Indeed, it is uncertain as to whether the entirety of the analytic relationship is determined by the transference or if “extra-transferential” aspects of the analytic relationship can be said to ...

the multi-criteria decision making model is an important tool for decision making in water resource management. in this paper, the topsis model was used to rank seven flood management options in the gorganrood river flood management project, including conservation of natural condition, golestan reservoir management, levee construction, diversions-channel construction, flood forecasting and warn...

Although the importance of empathy, rapport, and anxiety/pain awareness in dentist-patient relations has been well documented, these factors continue to be an issue with patients in many dental school clinics. The aim of this study was to develop an in-depth understanding of how patients at an urban, university-affiliated medical center and its dental school's clinic experienced oral health car...

SARA (Socially-Aware Robot Assistant) is an embodied intelligent personal assistant that analyses the user’s visual (head and face movement), vocal (acoustic features) and verbal (conversational strategies) behaviours to estimate its rapport level with the user, and uses its own appropriate visual, vocal and verbal behaviors to achieve task and social goals. The presented agent aids conference ...

background : based on the literature review that was conducted, no research study has been found in australia to provide a detailed understanding of why nurses differ in their perceptions about cancer patients’ quality of life (qol) when they  communicate with patients in oncology wards. methods : this descriptive exploratory qualitative study was completed in 2007 in two major public hospitals...

July/August 2002, Volume 56, Number 4 This article offers suggestions for using research evidence in the daily practice of client-centered occupational therapy. Although others have shown that evidencebased practice and client-centered practice are congruent with and complementary to each other for clinical decision making (e.g., Egan, Dubouloz, von Zweck, & Vallerand, 1998; Law, Baum, & Dunn, ...

This study examines how people manage uncertain competitive social interactions. To achieve positive interaction outcomes, individuals may engage in a social perception process that leads them to believe they have obtained more information about others than these others gained about them. We investigate how asymmetric knowledge perceptions contribute to important aspects of negotiation, namely ...

This study examined the quality of interview instructions and rapport-building provided by prosecutors to 168 children aged 5-12 years testifying in child sexual abuse cases, preceding explicit questions about abuse allegations. Prosecutors failed to effectively administer key interview instructions, build rapport, or rely on open-ended narrative producing prompts during this early stage of que...

— The theme is the influence of the spin structure on the Dirac spectrum of a spin manifold. We survey examples and results related to this question. Résumé (Dépendance du spectre de l’opérateur de Dirac par rapport à la structure spinorielle) Sur une variété spinorielle, nous étudions la dépendance du spectre de l’opérateur de Dirac par rapport à la structure spinorielle. Nous donnons ensuite ...