Sexual medicine has expressed concern about the presumed negative effects of pornography on sexual aggression, sexual relationships, and sexual function since the inception of the scientific study of human sexuality. Ivan Bloch, the German physician who coined the term sexology, asserted as long ago as 1902 that “[t]here is no sexual aberration, no perverse act, however frightful, that is not p...

A major bottleneck in the realization of autonomous robotic agents performing complex manipulation tasks are the requirements that these tasks impose onto perception mechanisms. There is a strong need to scale robot perception capabilities along two dimensions: First, the variations of appearances and perceptual properties that real-world objects exhibit. Second, the variety of perceptual tasks...

In the past fifty years of computation there have been two great trends in this relationship: the mainframe relationship, and the PC relationship. Today the Internet is carrying us through an era of widespread distributed computing towards the relationship of ubiquitous computing, characterized by deeply imbedding computation in the world. Ubiquitous computing will require a new approach to fit...

INTRODUCTION Behavioral and psychological interventions are key components of treating chronic pain. However, there are logistical barriers to providing such treatments, including a lack of psychological staff to provide such interventions and limited ability of patients with chronic pain to attend multiple sessions. As other areas of mental health have shown promise in providing single session...

Many context-aware applications are not widely spread due to a discrepancy between user expectation and the actual system behavior. Before this discrepancy is solved, context-awareness cannot fulfil the promise of providing calm technology that aids us with our daily tasks. In solving this discrepancy requirements engineering traditionally plays a role. We investigated the distinguishing proper...