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View article: Examining the role of staff and team communication in reducing seclusion, restraint and forced tranquilisation in acute inpatient mental health settings: protocol for the Communication and Restraint Reduction (CaRR) study
Examining the role of staff and team communication in reducing seclusion, restraint and forced tranquilisation in acute inpatient mental health settings: protocol for the Communication and Restraint Reduction (CaRR) study Open
Introduction Over 100 000 service users are admitted to acute mental health wards annually, many involuntarily. Wards are under incredible pressure due to high bed occupancy rates and staff shortages. In a recent survey, over 80% of mental…
View article: Can Chatbot Companions Alleviate Loneliness in Autistic Users? Evaluating Digital Companions
Can Chatbot Companions Alleviate Loneliness in Autistic Users? Evaluating Digital Companions Open
Autistic adults experience disproportionately high levels of loneliness, often influenced by social environments that are inaccessible or unaccommodating, rather than a lack of social interest. To address this, some individuals have turned…
View article: Can Chatbot Companions Alleviate Loneliness in Autistic Users? Evaluating Digital Companions
Can Chatbot Companions Alleviate Loneliness in Autistic Users? Evaluating Digital Companions Open
Autistic adults experience disproportionately high levels of loneliness, often influenced by social environments that are inaccessible or unaccommodating, rather than a lack of social interest. To address this, some individuals have turned…
View article: xTrace: A Facial Expressive Behaviour Analysis Tool for Continuous Affect Recognition
xTrace: A Facial Expressive Behaviour Analysis Tool for Continuous Affect Recognition Open
Recognising expressive behaviours in face videos is a long-standing challenge in Affective Computing. Despite significant advancements in recent years, it still remains a challenge to build a robust and reliable system for naturalistic and…
View article: Simulate to stimulate? A systematic review of stress, learning, and performance in healthcare simulation.
Simulate to stimulate? A systematic review of stress, learning, and performance in healthcare simulation. Open
In recent years, simulation has come to prominence as an educational method within the healthcare professions, aiming to shield learners from real-world consequences. However, the associated risks of this educational method have largely re…
View article: Group model building for developing systems-oriented solutions to reduce car dependency in Belfast, United Kingdom
Group model building for developing systems-oriented solutions to reduce car dependency in Belfast, United Kingdom Open
The continued prevalence of car dependency is a concern worldwide due to known negative health, social, economic, and environmental impacts. Belfast is a city in the United Kingdom with high levels of car dependency and car use. The most s…
View article: Using Large Language Models to Augment (Rather Than Replace) Human Feedback in Higher Education Improves Perceived Feedback Quality
Using Large Language Models to Augment (Rather Than Replace) Human Feedback in Higher Education Improves Perceived Feedback Quality Open
Formative feedback on assignments such as essays or theses is deemed necessary for students’ academic development in higher education. However, providing high quality feedback can be time-intensive and challenging, and students frequently …
View article: Untapped resource: the simulation-based healthcare environment as a means to study human stress.
Untapped resource: the simulation-based healthcare environment as a means to study human stress. Open
The effects of 'stress' within the healthcare professions are wide-reaching, not least of all within the field of simulation-based healthcare education. Whilst this popular method of experiential learning offers a 'safe space' for particip…
View article: Are facial expression technologies tools for emotion recognition or social interaction analysis, or both?
Are facial expression technologies tools for emotion recognition or social interaction analysis, or both? Open
Basic Emotions Theory has been the most dominant theory in producing techniques for emotion perception studies. Such methodologies do not take into account that social factors may have an effect on how facial expressions are perceived. Gos…
View article: Complex interventions to reduce car use and change travel behaviour: An umbrella review.
Complex interventions to reduce car use and change travel behaviour: An umbrella review. Open
Car travel is associated with increased risk of morbidity and mortality, physical inactivity, traffic collisions and casualties, and air and noise pollution. Effective interventions are required to reduce car use and change travel behaviou…
View article: The evaluation of stress during medical simulation: a feasibility study involving final-year medical students
The evaluation of stress during medical simulation: a feasibility study involving final-year medical students Open
Student stress is well-documented within the field of simulation-based medical education. However, current research is unclear as to what level of stress is optimal for an enhanced educational experience. This ambiguity may partly be due t…
View article: Group Model Building for Developing Systems-Oriented Solutions to Reduce Car Dependency in Belfast, United Kingdom
Group Model Building for Developing Systems-Oriented Solutions to Reduce Car Dependency in Belfast, United Kingdom Open
View article: A Taxonomy of Non-verbal Responses to Gossip
A Taxonomy of Non-verbal Responses to Gossip Open
Gossip is the exchange of socially relevant information. Sending and receiving gossip is a communicative process that involves evaluation of the information by the sender and receiver, with the receiver signalling their response by facial …
View article: Social and acoustic determinants of perceived laughter intensity
Social and acoustic determinants of perceived laughter intensity Open
Existing research links subjective judgments of perceived laughter intensity with features such as duration, amplitude, fundamental frequency, and voicing. We examine these associations in a new database of social laughs produced in situat…
View article: A Comparison of Unimodal and Multimodal Measurements of Driver Stress in Real-World Driving Conditions
A Comparison of Unimodal and Multimodal Measurements of Driver Stress in Real-World Driving Conditions Open
Objectively measuring drivers’ emotions in real-world conditions is a challenging endeavour. This study investigated whether drivers’ emotional responses were captured more meaningfully by unimodal measurements or by a multimodal machine-l…
View article: Conveying Empathy in Social Interactions: The Role of Expressivity
Conveying Empathy in Social Interactions: The Role of Expressivity Open
The phenomenon of empathy is often examined in contexts where people demonstrate compassion towards others. However, less is known about the way in which we empathise with others in everyday conversations which are less emotionally-charged…
View article: Not only decibels: Exploring human judgments of laughter intensity
Not only decibels: Exploring human judgments of laughter intensity Open
Paper presented at the 5th Laughter Workshop, Paris, 27-28 September 2018. While laughter intensity is an important characteristic immediately perceivable for the listeners, empirical investigations of this construct are still scarce. Here…
View article: A performance comparison of eight commercially available automatic classifiers for facial affect recognition
A performance comparison of eight commercially available automatic classifiers for facial affect recognition Open
In the wake of rapid advances in automatic affect analysis, commercial automatic classifiers for facial affect recognition have attracted considerable attention in recent years. While several options now exist to analyze dynamic video data…
View article: A performance comparison of eight commercially available automatic classifiers for facial affect recognition - raw data
A performance comparison of eight commercially available automatic classifiers for facial affect recognition - raw data Open
Raw data of the videos processed from the UT-Dallas and BU4-DFE datasets by human observers and automatic classifiers.
View article: Emotion recognition in humans and machine using posed and spontaneous facial expression
Emotion recognition in humans and machine using posed and spontaneous facial expression Open
In the wake of rapid advances in automatic affect analysis, commercial software tools for facial affect recognition have attracted considerable attention in the past few years. While several options now exist to analyze dynamic video data,…
View article: A performance comparison of eight commercially available automatic classifiers for facial affect recognition - raw data
A performance comparison of eight commercially available automatic classifiers for facial affect recognition - raw data Open
Raw data of the videos processed from the UT-Dallas and BU4-DFE datasets by human observers and automatic classifiers.
View article: Dynamic Analysis of Automatic Facial Expressions Recognition ‗in the Wild‘ Using Generalized Additive Mixed Models and Significant Zero Crossing of the Derivatives
Dynamic Analysis of Automatic Facial Expressions Recognition ‗in the Wild‘ Using Generalized Additive Mixed Models and Significant Zero Crossing of the Derivatives Open
The analysis of facial expressions is currently a favoured method of inferring experienced emotion, and consequently significant efforts are currently being made to develop improved facial expression recognition techniques. Among these new…
View article: The effect of personality and social context on willingness to share emotion information on social media
The effect of personality and social context on willingness to share emotion information on social media Open
Sharing personal information is an important way of communicating on social media. Among the information possibly shared, new sensors and tools allow people to share emotion information via facial emotion recognition. This paper questions …
View article: Ethical Issues in Social Media Research for Public Health
Ethical Issues in Social Media Research for Public Health Open
Social media (SM) offer huge potential for public health research, serving as a vehicle for surveillance, delivery of health interventions, recruitment to trials, collection of data, and dissemination. However, the networked nature of the …
View article: Dual functions of empathy: is empathising behaviour involved in the management of our social position?
Dual functions of empathy: is empathising behaviour involved in the management of our social position? Open
The desire for affiliation and the pursuit of social status are thought to be two fundamental drivers of human behaviour (Kenrick et al. 2010). It is proposed that the display of empathic behaviour allows individuals to achieve these goals…
View article: Towards the development of a coding scheme for the quantification of interpersonal empathic behaviour
Towards the development of a coding scheme for the quantification of interpersonal empathic behaviour Open
We present a validated, open-source, evidence-based approach for the coding and quantification of interpersonal behaviour. The phenomenon of empathy is a complex and ambiguous phenomenon, which is currently being defined in numerous differ…
View article: Assessment of automatic facial expressions recognition "in the wild": a time-series analysis using GAMM and SiZer methods
Assessment of automatic facial expressions recognition "in the wild": a time-series analysis using GAMM and SiZer methods Open
The analysis of facial expressions is currently a favored method of inferring experienced emotion, and consequently significant efforts are currently be-ing made to develop improved facial expression recognition techniques. Among these new…
View article: The Interpersonal Coding of Empathy (I.C.E.) scheme
The Interpersonal Coding of Empathy (I.C.E.) scheme Open
We present a validated, open-source, evidence-based approach for the operationalisation and quantification of interpersonal behaviour. The phenomenon of empathy is a complex and ambiguous phenomenon, which is currently being defined…
View article: Is there such a thing as a national sense of humour?
Is there such a thing as a national sense of humour? Open
View article: Dynamic Analysis of Automatic Emotion Recognition Using Generalized Additive Mixed Models
Dynamic Analysis of Automatic Emotion Recognition Using Generalized Additive Mixed Models Open