—The Robadom project aims at creating a homecare robot that help and assist people in their daily life, either in doing task for the human or in managing day organization. A robot could have this kind of role only if it is accepted by humans. Before thinking about the robot appearance, we decided to evaluate the importance of the relation between verbal and nonverbal communication during a huma...

BACKGROUND Managers' communication skills are one of the most important topics in educational sector of universities of medical sciences and may have considerable effect on faculty members and employees. This study was per-formed to determine the level of communication skills (verbal, listening, feed-back) of the heads of department of faculties and its relation with some demo-graphic variables...

OBJECTIVE Nonverbal and verbal communication elements enhance and reinforce the consent form in the informed consent process and need to be transferred appropriately to multimedia formats using interaction design when re-designing the process. METHODS Observational, question asking behavior, and content analyses were used to analyze nonverbal and verbal elements of an informed consent process...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of a new electronic handoff tool for emergency department to medicine ward patient transfers over a 1-year period. DESIGN Prospective mixed-methods analysis of data submitted by medicine residents following admitting shifts before and after eSignout implementation. SETTING University-based, tertiary-care hospital. PARTICIPANTS Internal medicine resident ph...

BACKGROUND Communication of autistic children. AIM To assess the communication functionality of verbal and non-verbal children of the autistic spectrum and to identify possible associations amongst the groups. METHOD Subjects were 20 children of the autistic spectrum divided into two groups: V with 10 verbal children and NV with 10 non-verbal children with ages varying between 2y10m and 10y...

The non-verbal communication of clinicians has an impact on patients’ satisfaction and health outcomes. Yet medical students are not receiving enough training on the appropriate non-verbal behaviors in clinical consultations. Computer vision techniques have been used for detecting different kinds of non-verbal behaviors, and they can be incorporated in educational systems that help medical stud...