Social escape behavior is a common behavioral feature of individuals with fragile X syndrome (fraX). In this observational study, we examined the effect of antecedent social and performance demands on problem behaviors in four conditions: face-to-face interview, silent reading, oral reading and a singing task. Results showed that problem behaviors were significantly more likely to occur during ...

Crime statistics from the US Bureau of Justice and the FBI Uniform Crime Report show a gap between reported and unreported crime. For police to effectively prevent and solve crime, they require accurate and complete information about incidents. This article describes the evaluation of a crime reporting and interviewing system that witnesses can use to report crime incidents or suspicious activi...

As the Soviet Union was collapsing, an American research team visited Moscow to interview military leaders as part of a study for the U.S. Department of Defense Office of Net Assessment. One of the interview subjects was Marshal Sergei Akhromeev, Chief of the General Staff and Personal Advisor to Gorbachev, who provided insights into Soviet nuclear planningthis included clarification on issues ...

In our rushes exploitation task of TRECVID 2006, we propose a novel and interactive rushes video selection and editing method based on hierarchical browsing of key frames, where high level features of each key frame such as face, interview, person, crowd, building, outdoor, waterbody, and other information about redundancy and repetition are displayed at same time for helping editors to select ...

Pregnancy and parenting could be complex psychologically for infertile couples who conceived through Assisted Reproduction Treatment (ART). This study examines transition to parenthood of women and men during their first pregnancy obtained with ART. A face-to-face semi-structured interview was administered to 15 Italian couples waiting for the first child after a conception with ART. The interv...

Conversational virtual human (VH) agents are increasingly used to support role-play experiential learning. This project examined whether a Virtual Interactive Training Agent (ViTA) system would improve job interviewing skills in individuals with autism and developmental disabilities (N = 32). A linear mixed model was employed to evaluate adjusted least square mean differences of means scores on...

OBJECTIVE There is limited information available about the mental health of female sex workers. Therefore, we aimed to make a comprehensive assessment of the mental status of female sex workers over different outdoors and indoors work settings and nationalities. METHOD As the prerequisites of a probability sampling were not given, a quota-sampling strategy was the best possible alternative. S...

Although focus groups are commonly used in health research to explore the perspectives of patients or health care professionals, few studies consider methodological aspects in this specific context. For this reason, we interviewed nine researchers who had conducted focus groups in the context of a project devoted to the development of an electronic personal health record. We performed qualitati...

This methodological paper addresses practical strategies, implications, benefits and drawbacks of collecting qualitative semi-structured interview data about Internet-based research topics using four different interaction systems: face to face; telephone; email; and instant messaging. The discussion presented here is based on a review of the literature and reflection on the experiences of the a...