AIM To evaluate whether the parental perception of the patient's anxiety, children's anxiety, pain, behaviour and heart rate of paediatric patients improves when an audiovisual technique is used as a distraction method during dental treatment. MATERIALS AND METHODS This non-randomised crossover trial was performed with 34 patients aged 6-8 years, who required a minimum of two treatment visits...

Objectives This study aimed to explore faculty and students perceptions on the qualities of good medical teachers, and to determine whether the opinions of faculty and students differed. Methods Two quantitative surveys were performed at Qassim University College of Medicine using a pretested self-administered questionnaire distributed to the faculty and students of the college. It captured t...

The French National Audiovisual Institute (INA) is in charge of archiving continuously the video stream of every French television channel. In order to provide an access to particular programs in these streams, each program must be described. Presently, a stream is manually structured and annotated. Our work focuses on the use of electronic program guides to structure and annotate a video strea...

Purpose Because reading is an audiovisual process, reading impairment may reflect an audiovisual processing deficit. The aim of the present study was to test the existence and scope of such a deficit in adult readers with dyslexia. Method We tested 39 typical readers and 51 adult readers with dyslexia on their sensitivity to the simultaneity of audiovisual speech and nonspeech stimuli, their ...

Multiple attributes are expected of postgraduate research supervisors. Provision of timely and effective face-to-face feedback is one such skill that carries enormous significance in supervisee's professional development. Feedback allows the supervisees to improve upon their performances. Unfortunately, both supervisors and supervisees have contrasting approaches towards the ongoing feedback pr...

BACKGROUND There is an increasing need for parenting programs aimed at promoting parent-child interaction. A variety of interventions have been proposed. The use of audiovisual materials for parents has been shown to be effective but limited information is available on the optimal timing for its use, particularly for new parents during the first year of life of their children. The aim of this s...

The UNED (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) was founded in 1972. Its purpose was to offer high-level training to those students that could not attend a regular university because of their jobs, the lack of a university near their homes, or any other reason. Currently, the UNED is the biggest Spanish university, with 200,000 pre-graduate students. Its structure consists of a Central...

In her paper, "Aesthetics and Audiovisual Metaphors in Media Perception," Kathrin Fahlenbrach presents a model of audiovisual analysis where focus is on audiovisual aesthetics perceived physically and affectively. Fahlenbrach starts out from the assumption that image and sound are inseparable in audiovisual media and must be treated as a unit, a "synchresis" (Chion). Fahlenbrach proposes that o...

We present an experimental study on the effect of context and of audiovisual prosody on pragmatic focus interpretation. The audiovisual material was elicited from our previous production study on the exhaustivity of answers. Here we recorded nine German speakers who were instructed to read dialogues with embedded question-answer pairs in which the answer constituted the pragmatic focus of the u...