In order to increase the game characters realism and its arti cial environments, recent research has focused on improving the autonomous adaptation in real-time of characters to particular situations. This work resume an experimental process for creating Autonomous Virtual Agents (AVAs). Our work shows the main phases where an appropriate cognitive modeling leads to suitable responses from exte...

objective: the present study aimed at examining the effect of multidimensional motivation interventions based on martin's model on cognitive and behavioral components of motivation. methods: the research design was prospective with pretest, posttest, and follow-up, and 2 experimental groups. in this study, 90 students (45 participants in the experimental group and 45 in the control group) const...

social phobia is one of the anxiety disorders. the people wit h social phobia fear social situations and they are afraid to meet and talk with others and try avoid social situations .social phobia influence on academic and occupational function. many researches have confirmed the effect of family therapy based on cognigive-behavioral approach on social phobia. the main purpose of the present re...

Objectives: The present study has investigated the effect of cognitive behavioral group therapy on improving coping styles in patients with acute coronary heart disease. Methods: Semi-experimental in type of pretest-posttest with control group seems to be a good design for this study.22 patients with acute coronary heart disease are admitted in CCU of Mashhad Razavi Hospital and undergo angi...

conclusions: it can be concluded that cognitive-behavioral and spiritual training was effective for the improvement of mental health of hiv positive drug addicts. results: the result of the present research showed that cognitive-behavioral trainings with an emphasis on spirituality were effective for improving quality of life, regarding general aspects of mental and physical health, sub-scales ...