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Context and personality key in understanding responses to emotional facial expressions
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 06, 2008 |
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It is well appreciated that facial expressions play a major role in non-verbal social communication among humans and other primates, because faces provide rapid access to information about the identity as well as the internal ...
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Virtual nurse helps counsel patients before their hospital release
Apr 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Looking for a nurse with a calm, patient bedside manner?
Virtual reality games could help bullying victims
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Virtual reality games could help children to escape victimisation and bullying at school, according to researchers at the University of Warwick.
Study finds virtual doctors visits satisfactory for both patients and clinicians
May 14, 2009 |
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Travelers book plane tickets online, bank customers can check their accounts at any computer, and busy families can grocery shop online. Someday, even doctor visits could be among the conveniences offered via the Internet. ...
More to Second Life than just sex
May 25, 2009 |
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Researchers at the University of Toronto and the University Health Network's Centre for Innovation in Complex Care (CICC) have found that a wide array of health-related activity occurs in the 3 dimensional virtual world of ...
Virtual solution to driving phobias
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Nervous drivers are being helped to overcome their road phobias by donning Cyclops-style goggles that transport them to a three-dimensional virtual world.
New research may save lives in suicide bombings
Mar 23, 2009 |
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Florida Institute of Technology researchers have determined that where a person is standing in a room or other location during a suicide terrorist attack can have a great bearing on survival and injuries.
Virtual maps for the blind
Sep 10, 2009 |
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The blind and visually impaired often rely on others to provide cues and information on navigating through their environments. The problem with this method is that it doesn't give them the tools to venture out on their own, ...
IBM Creates Software for Holding Face-to-Face Meetings in Virtual Worlds
Mar 04, 2009 |
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IBM is making it easier for widely dispersed businesspeople to interact and collaborate without the time and expense of in-person meetings.
Research shows avatars can negatively affect users
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Although often seen as an inconsequential feature of digital technologies, one's self-representation, or avatar, in a virtual environment can affect the user's thoughts, according to research by a University ...
A first in online gaming: Humans team up with AI software
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 18, 2008 |
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Hey, online gamers, artificial intelligence researchers need your help! As part of an international team of researchers, Northwestern University has officially released the first online game in which human players partner ...
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