In this paper, the authors describe an aspect of a program of research around grief and clinical practice. The first phase of the study involves examination of experiences of grief with attention to troublesome or problematic beliefs that fuel the extent of suffering in the bereaved. The data, obtained from a review of videotaped clinical interviews with families seen in the Family Nursing Unit...

While HIV has become a largely chronic disease, age-associated comorbidities are prevalent in people living with HIV (PLWH). Therefore, PLWH are appropriate for advance care planning (ACP) and advance directives (ADs) completion. We sought to characterize AD completion among outpatient PLWH. We conducted a retrospective chart review of PLWH who receive their routine care at the University of Wi...

Congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) canbe considered anelephant in our living room. Since Weller1 published his landmark article in 1971 reporting the ubiquity of the problem of cCMV infection in theUnited States and stressing itsmajor public health importance, cCMVhasbeen recognizedas a common congenital infection that can cause liver disease, thrombocytopenia,hearingandvision loss,microcephaly,...

This paper proposes a class of software agent architectures capable of playing some of beneficial roles embodiment accomplishes in living beings. These are component based architectures including sensors, actuators, emotion eliciting mechanisms and action control mechanisms. These architectures through their yellow pages and log services, which maintain updated information about the agent body ...

HbbTV is a European initiative for providing both broadcast and broadband/web content on a flat-panel screen in the living room. The HbbTV specification introduces only a few new technical components; it is mainly based on existing standards. In this respect, it represents a specific profile of available technologies, rather than a completely new technical development. This approach will be ext...

To reduce interference in monaural hearing aids from sound sources that are spatially separated from a target source, we are investigating methods for combining information from multiple microphones. In this paper, we describe an adaptive beamforming method that functions to preserve target signals arriving from straight-ahead of a microphone array while minimizing output power from off-axis in...

As personal digital archives of multimedia data become more ubiquitous, the challenge of supporting multimodal access to such archives becomes an important research topic. In this paper we present and positively evaluate a gesture-based interface to a personal media archive which operates on a living room TV using a Wiimote. We illustrate that Wiimote interaction can outperform a point-and-clic...