Background Most recently research on the AIDS epidemic has focused on persons who are infected by HIV in globally. However, the impact on elderly whose adult children living with AIDS has received less attention until 1990s. The impact of the epidemic extends not only infected with the virus but also affect their family members, emotionally, economically, socially, and physically. The elderly p...

Social work involves working with people in distress and difficulties, people who have perhaps been traumatised by abuse or other life experience, people who have encountered major loss, suffering and pain. In addition there can be immense feelings of alienation and disaffection rooted in social inequalities and the discrimination and oppression associated with them. It would therefore be extre...

The ability to express emotions is important for creating believable interactive characters. To simulate emotional expressions in an interactive environment, an intelligent agent needs both an adaptive model for generating believable responses, and a visualizationmodel for mapping emotions into facial expressions. Recent advances in intelligent agents and in facial modeling have produced effect...

Research on networked applications that utilize multimodal information about their users' current emotional state are presently at the forefront of interest of the computer vision and artificial intelligence communities. Human faces may act as visual interfaces that help users feel at home when interacting with a computer because they are accepted as the most expressive means for communicating ...

This article refers to the International Classification of Diseases 10th edition (ICD-10) which is the official classification system for mental health professionals working in NHS clinical practice. The literature occasionally refers to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) classification system which whilst used in clinical practice in the USA is primarily used for r...

the self-report questionnaire that faithfully reflects the emotional factors related to electronic commerce systems. The second study focused on determining the important graphic design factors from the customer’s perspective. The causal relations between the emotional factors and design factors were established in the third study, and verified in the final study. Results indicate that it is po...