Reflection is an activity which needs facilitation in order to motivate users to engage in it regularly. In a study we analyzed how prompts can support reflection in a workplace setting. Results show that prompts might be beneficial to stimulate users to write new topics. Our results show that if user generate own prompts, user reply more often in comparison to our generic prompts.

Many ambiguous patterns elicit spontaneous alternations of phenomenal appearance. Attention is known to influence these phenomenal reversals, as do several other factors. We asked whether a shift of attention individually prompts each reversal of phenomenal appearance. By combining intermittent presentation with a proven method of attention control, we monitored phenomenal alternations in the c...

Recession of the superior oblique was performed bilaterally in 12 patients with the A phenomenon and unilaterally in four patients with vertical imbalance. The results are discussed.

The conversational recommender system (CRS) aims to provide high-quality recommendations through interactive dialogues. However, previous CRS models have no effective mechanisms for task planning and topic elaboration, thus they hardly maintain coherence in multi-task recommendation Inspired by recent advances prompt-based learning, we propose a novel contextual prompting framework dialogue man...

With the rising cost of medical treatment and majority of the aging population preferring an independent lifestyle, the need for assistive technologies and smarted devices are increasing like never before. A prompting system is a technique that provides interventions to a smart home inhabitant in order to ensure successful completion of an activity. Machine learning techniques could be used to ...

We describe our experience building and using a reasoning system for providing context-based prompts to elders to take their medication. We describe the process of specification, design, implementation and use of our system. We chose a simple Dynamic Bayesian Network as our representation. We analyze the design space for the model in some detail. A key challenge in using the model was the overh...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether clinician prompting regarding a child's symptom severity and guideline recommendations at the time of an office visit improves the delivery of preventive asthma care. DESIGN Randomized controlled trial. SETTING Two inner-city pediatric practices in Rochester, NY. PARTICIPANTS Two hundred twenty-six children with persistent asthma (aged 2-12 years) presenting...