Objective To analyze communication skills of pediatric postgraduate residents in clinical encounter by using video recordings. Methods This qualitative exploratory research was conducted through video recording at The Children's Hospital Lahore, Pakistan. Residents who had attended the mandatory communication skills workshop offered by CPSP were included. The video recording of clinical encou...

Current techniques of repeated suicide risk assessment are not reliably predictive, and research into new methods is needed. The judgment of clinicians relies partly on nonverbal signs such as facial expressions. If differences in patients and/or interviewer's facial expressions appeared between subjects who were to make subsequent attempts (Repeaters) and those who were not (NonRepeaters), thi...

Understanding human emotions and their nonverbal messages is one of the most necessary and important skills for making the next generation of human-computer interfaces (HCI) easier, more natural and effective. Indeed, the first step toward an automatic emotion sensitive human-computer system having the ability to automatically detect users’ nonverbal signals is the development of an accurate an...

Nonverbal behavior and sensitivity to a relationship partner’s nonverbal behavior importantly influence the quality of interpersonal interactions and relationships, including attachment relationships. The abilities to encode, or express, and to decode, or understand, nonverbal cues are crucial to effective communication of emotions and are associated with social adjustment and relationship sati...

The paper presents recent technologies and basic research paradigms for the investigation of social presence effects of nonverbal behaviour in humancomputer-interaction (HCI) and computer-mediated-communication.(CMC). An experimental platform for the coding, editing and experimental computeranimation of human movement behaviour is introduced, which can serve for the experimental variation and o...