We, participants in the First International Congress of Person centered Medicine and the Board of the International College of Person-Centered Medicine, call for action to promote person-centered health for all through transfor-mative educational concepts, programs and actions. Person Centered Medicine seeks to place the whole person in context at the center and as the goal of clinical practice...

Educators in medicine, psychology, and the military want to provide their students with interpersonal skills practice. Virtual humans offer structured learning of interview skills, can facilitate learning about unusual conditions, and are always available. However, the creation of virtual humans with the ability to understand and respond to natural language requires costly engineering by conver...

Channel repertoires, the subsets of available channels that viewers actually watch, have typically been measured by relying on respondent recall. Using minute-by-minute peoplemeter data from Beijing, this study operationalized channel repertoire as the channels actually watched for 10 or more consecutive minutes during the week. On average, Chinese viewers used 13 channels, about one third of t...

This paper describes a new head detection method for people counting in crowded environments from a single camera. Our method adopts skeleton graph to distinguish person among people in crowded enviroments. The usage of skeleton graph is the main difference between this method and the traditional ones. Firstly, the skeleton graphs are calculated for each selected blob in the scene after foregro...

Usability engineering is the process of involving users throughout the development cycle to produce user-centric, easy to use software. The process model of involving users throughout this cycle is called user-centered design. Although a logical and proven model, the success of this process is often impeded by poor transference of knowledge between usability engineers, interaction designers, an...