Putting on a new face: Face transplantation

Putting a human face on neurologic illness.

Putting a Face on Embodied Interface Agents

Rapid increases in agent technology as well as the movement of computing into more and more social transactions has increased the need for embodied interface agents. However, interaction designers currently lack sufficient guidelines to confidently and successfully design the visual form of these agents. In this paper we offer a summary of research on the visual form of agents. In addition, we ...

Putting a face to MHC restriction.

It is now an immunological fact that small peptides bound to polymorphic MHC molecules are the antigenic ligands recognized by TCRs. All of protective immunity is built from and fueled by these interactions, as are the chronic diseases of autoimmunity and hypersensitivity that afflict affluent society. Through positive and negative selection in the thymus, self peptides bound to autologous MHC ...

Putting on a Brave Face with Instant Messaging

Instant Messaging (IM) tools such as Microsoft® MSN Messenger or Yahoo!® Messenger enable people to communicate in real-time, via text-chat, over a distance. Typically emotional icons, or emoticons, can be embedded into messages as intentional communicative signals. Recent IM versions also allow display of a picture representing oneself, and in turn one may see a picture of the interlocutor. Th...

Immunobiology of face transplantation.

Fourteen face transplants have been performed worldwide since the procedure was successfully introduced in 2005. Vascularized composite tissue allotransplantation may now be considered a viable option for the repair of complex craniofacial defects, for which the results of autologus reconstruction remain suboptimal. However, the benefits must be balanced against the risks inherent in major surg...