the current study was aimed to examine the relationship between alexithymia and anxiety among male schizophrenic inpatients. the study was of descriptive and predictive nature. the sample consisted of 50 male patients in niayesh psychiatric hospital of tehran, all of whom diagnosed with chronic schizophrenia (at least 2 years). the toronto alexithymia scale and self-scaled anxiety scale were ad...

Much work has been conducted on the use of monitoring to improve quality of life (in such domains as the healthcare industry) versus the privacy trade-offs associated with such monitoring. However, little work has been done on the impact of monitoring on employees with information security responsibilities. We present here some initial results from interviews with such professionals, focusing o...

Social multimedia is changing the way people interact with each other, transforming old practices on political activism, social participation and interpersonal relationships. Sharing dynamically created video segments is a prime example of this social transformation. This paper reports on a long field trial studying social practices around personal videos within a tight social circle. Our resul...

Starting from the assumption that meaning in electroacoustic music is an outcome of the listener’s mental processes, it is the goal of this essay to explicate the mental processes whereby feeling and emotion contribute to meaning when listening to electroacoustic music. This essay begins with a broad consideration of feeling and emotion with an eye toward artistic experience, spanning from basi...