Increased levels of stress are more frequent in the hearing-impaired population than in normal-hearing people. Because of the high frequency of stress in the hearing-impaired population and the ability of music to reduce stress, Widex has included a feature in the high end mind440 hearing aid which allows users to listen to a choice of diff erent music styles. Generally researchers agree that m...

The effects of daily and weekly academic loads on the psychological and cardioand hemodynamic characteristics of students were analyzed. The self-estimated state of health, activity, and mood were evaluated with the use of the HAM (Heallh-Activity-Mood) questionnaire; the introversion and extraversion, neuroticism, and intelligence of the subjects were determined according to Eysenck; and the s...

This articleii presents the results of video-based Human Robot Interaction (HRI) trials which investigated people’s perceptions of different robot appearances and associated attention-seeking features and behaviors displayed by robots with different appearance and behaviors. The HRI trials studied the participants’ preferences for various features of robot appearance and behavior, as well as th...

Nonverbal decoding refers to the act of recognizing and interpreting the meaning of other people’s nonverbal cues. Decoding skills vary depending on many factors such as personality and environment (Knapp & Hall, 2009). The present study focused on six individual difference measures (the EPI, IOS, PSI, SCS-R, 20-item Shyness Scale, and TSIS) and an experimentally manipulated variable of self-co...

T here is evidence from a variety of sources that communications between members of healthcare teams emerge as a key factor in poor care and are especially apparent where medical errors occur. Lingard et al take this as their starting point for an observational study of communication failures in operating theatres published in this issue of QSHC. They found that 31% of all communications could ...

Using the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework, the author conducted a mixed method research study to examine the existence of the three CoI elements in a graduate-level educational technology online course. The author also looked at student perceptions and preference for community in online learning. High mean scores on the CoI showed that all three elements of CoI were more than adequately ad...

Computer-mediated communication (CMC) is often considered distinct from traditional written language. In this paper we examine language use in two computer-mediated environments (e-mail and weblogs) and compare it to that in non-CMC written texts. Previous work has used the LIWC text analysis tool to derive broad language factors for written texts. Here, we find that the linguistic factor struc...

Modeling personality is important both for understanding human traits, and for designing artificial systems. Both aims are challenging. Studies of human personality suggest that personality traits such as extraversion and neuroticism have multiple correlates relating to many qualitatively different aspects of neural and cognitive functioning. The tri-level explanatory framework of cognitive sci...