Is psychotherapeutic alliance helped or harmed by using an iPad or computer during an intake session? Two studies are reported where psychotherapists use one of three different technologies in semistructured initial interviews: paper and pen, iPad, or a computer. The studies were conducted at a Primary Care Clinic and a Community Mental Health Clinic to provide a broader context to account for ...

Speech recognition systems have advanced to the point where they are a viable option for providing note taking assistance for deaf and hard of hearing students. College lectures, which frequently contain domain-specific or uncommon terminology, provide a challenge for these systems that typically rely on a dictionary of common words to guide recognition. This paper reports on a prototype text a...

NotePals is an ink-based, collaborative note taking application that runs on personal digital assistants (PDAs). Meeting participants write notes in their own handwriting on a PDA. These notes are shared with other participants by synchronizing later with a shared note repository. NotePals is distinguished by its lightweight process, interface, and hardware. This paper describes the design and ...

This research investigates the use of multimodal metaphors to communicate information in the interface of e-learning application in order to reduce the visual communication by incorporating auditory stimuli. Three experimental studies conducted to investigate the effect of using multimodal metaphors in e-learning applications. The first experiment introduced an empirical study to investigate th...

The random generation of coherent solitary waves from incoherent waves in a medium with an instantaneous nonlinearity has been observed. One excites a propagating incoherent spin wave packet in a magnetic film strip and observes the random appearance of solitary wave pulses. These pulses are as coherent as traditional solitary waves, but with random timing and a random peak amplitude.

A trial is reported in which RAMC staff working in a dressing station and wearing full NBC Individual Protective Equipment (IPE), attempted to take pulse and blood pressure (BP) readings on casualties similarly clad. These basic parameters however, were obtained from only half the casualties, the time taken to obtain them was prohibitive and the blood pressures were inaccurate. Certain remedies...