Background & aim: Communication is a fundamental human need. Medical students and healthcare professionals must be attuned to the needs of patients using effective communication skills. With regards to medical training, currently the focus is on theoretical matters and communication skills are taken for granted. This problem has caused miscommunication with patients referred to teaching hospita...

Background: Communication is a human skill that can develop through learning and teaching, Although, this is an integral component of clinical activities of physicians, still the dominant attitude in medical education is biological. There is a little attention to communication skills in formal medical education program. The aim of this study was to determine communication skills and professiona...

Computers have become an essential part of modern life, providing services in a multiplicity of ways. Access to these services, however, comes at a price: human attention is bound and directed toward a technical artifact in a human-machine interaction setting at the expense of time and attention for other humans. This paper explores a new class of computer services that support human-human inte...

The constant desire humans have to find new ways to communicate with one another has led to many technological innovations throughout history. The use of computer-based communication media is certainly a current and broadly used mean. In this context, this research intends to explore the potential of Augmented Reality (AR) solutions when incorporated to synchronous human-human communication sup...

In cyber threat situations, decision-making processes within organizations and between the affected organization external entities are high-stake. They require human communication entailing technical complexity, time pressure, interdisciplinary factors, often an insufficient information basis. Communication in situations can thus be challenging has a variety of implications for decision-making....