In a 49-year-old man generalised argyria was diagnosed, a systemic dissemination and tissue deposition of silver in the body. The clinical picture was brought about by use of a silver acetate-containing lozenge as a deterrent to smoking. Argyria is characterised by a slate blue-gray discolouration of the skin, particularly in areas exposed to light. Generally, it causes patients a great deal of...

In a recent special issue dedicated to the work of Dani Rodrik, Grüne-Yanoff and Marchionni [(2018). Modeling model selection in pluralism. Journal Economic Methodology, 25(3), 265–275. https://doi.org/10.1080/1350178X.2018.1488572] raise potentially damning problem for Rodrik's suggestion that progress economics should be understood measured laterally, by continuous expansion new models. They ...

The paper deals with engagement with information technology in public space by comparing it to how street performers deal with similar situations. One key example is presented. In this example, the importance of the difference between street-as-street and streetas-stage is presented, and the unease or embarrassment, this causes the audience is discussed.

In this study, the correlates of embarrassability, or chronic susceptibility to embarrassment, were examined. Competing theoretical models suggest either that embarrassable people should be especially concerned about others' evaluations of them or that they should lack social skills. Further, shyness and embarrassment are typically considered to be closely related states. To test these proposit...

User interactions with products or systems can produce positive feelings, e.g. pleasing, encouraging or challenging; or negative ones, e.g. annoying, depressing or even abusive. This study attempted to explore reasons for negative emotions associated with product use by probing into the embarrassing emotions aroused in a product-use situation. The results showed that the embarrassment associate...

For flexible interactions between a robot and humans, we address the issue of automatic recognition of human emotions during the interaction such as embarrassment, pleasure, and affinity. To construct classifiers of emotions, we used the dialogue data between a humanoid robot, Robovie, and children, which was collected with the WOZ (Wizard of Oz) method. Besides prosodic features extracted from...