OBJECTIVES To understand doctors' impacts on the emotional coping of patients, their stories about encounters with doctors are used. These accounts reflect meaning-making processes and biographically contextualized experiences. We investigate how patients characterize their doctors by voicing them in their stories, thus assigning them functions in their coping process. METHODS 394 narrated sc...

We are designing a Conversational Agent that communicates at the same time by speech and expressive face. As we are engaged in face-to-face interaction or in any communicative acts where the visual modality is available along with the acoustic one, multimodal signals are at work. Our communicative acts are performed not only through words, but also through intonation, body posture, hand gesture...

This work proposes, first, an approach to the agonal character of electoral debates, and then analyses nature acts (im)politeness that appear in them. From there, it presents a triangular theoretical-methodological framework, based on analysis functional impoliteness strategies, linguistic-discursive mechanisms for their implementation social repercussions impolite acts. Within first these thre...

-Life is becoming too busy to get medical appointments in person and to maintain a proper health care. The main idea of this work is to provide ease and comfort to patients while taking appointment from doctors and it also resolves the problems that the patients has to face while making an appointment. The android application Mr.Doc acts as a client whereas the database containing the doctor’s ...

Average-half-face experiments the overall accuracy of the system is better than using the original full face image. Clearly experiment shows that half face data produces higher recognition accuracy [5]. The average-half-face contain the data exactly half of the full face and thus results in storage and computational time saving. The information stored in average-half-face may be more discrimina...