A5081437704- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Empathy and Medical Education
- Social Robot Interaction and HRI
- International Student and Expatriate Challenges
- Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Dental Health and Care Utilization
- Dental Anxiety and Anesthesia Techniques
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Global Education and Multiculturalism
- Higher Education Governance and Development
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Dental Education, Practice, Research
- Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
- AI in Service Interactions
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Assistive Technology in Communication and Mobility
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Dental Research and COVID-19
- Communication in Education and Healthcare
- EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Speech and dialogue systems
University of Potsdam
2017-2025
University of St Andrews
2009-2021
Shanghai Municipal Center For Disease Control Prevention
2021
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2013
University of Dundee
2007-2008
Theoretical concepts of culture shock and adaptation are reviewed, as applied to the pedagogical student sojourners in an unfamiliar culture. The historical development 'traditional' theories led emergence contemporary theoretical approaches, such 'culture learning', 'stress coping' 'social identification'. These approaches can be accommodated within a broad framework based on affective, behavioural cognitive (ABC) aspects adaptation. This 'cultural synergy' offers more comprehensive...
Abstract This paper presents two studies, conducted in different countries, investigating perceptions of ingroups as enduring, temporally persistent entities, and introduces a new instrument measuring ‘perceived collective continuity’ (PCC). In Study 1 we show that ingroup continuity are based on main dimensions: perceived cultural (perceived norms traditions) historical interconnection between ages events). study also allows the construction an internally consistent PCC scale including...
The ongoing rise in the prevalence of hypertension children and adolescents is considered to be accompanied with epidemic childhood overweight obesity. In this study, we established a large scale cross-sectional study Shanghai, China, which presented new evidence for correlation obesity stages Chinese adolescents. A school-based was conducted during February December 2009 including total 78,114 Body weight, height, waist circumference (WC) blood pressure (BP) were measured. Overweight...
Background: The increasing involvement of social robots in human lives raises the question as to how humans perceive robots. Little is known about perception synthesized voices. Aim: To investigate which voice parameters predict speaker's eeriness and likability; determine if individual listener characteristics (e.g., personality, attitude toward robots, age) influence evaluations; explore paralinguistic features subjectively distinguish from robots/artificial agents. Methods: 95 adults (62...
<h3>PURPOSE</h3> The influence of multimorbidity on the clinical encounter is poorly understood, especially in areas high socioeconomic deprivation where burdensome concentrated. aim current study was to examine effect general practice consultations, and low deprivation. <h3>METHODS</h3> We conducted secondary analyses 659 video-recorded routine consultations involving 25 practitioners (GPs) deprived 22 affluent Scotland. Patients rated GP's empathy using Consultation Relational Empathy...
International students coming to the United Kingdom have adapt academic cultural differences as well general differences. Questionnaires were administered 257 Chinese postgraduate on anticipated and actually experienced difficulties perceived between U.K. cultures before departure, soon after arrival, about 6 months arrival. Some participants ( n = 45) responded questionnaires at three stages; others just one or two stages. A sample of 45 28) interviewed their pre-departure expectations...
Since December 2019, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a global pandemic. Currently, COVID-19 pandemic is still ongoing. What changes have taken place in obesity and obesity-related lifestyle behaviours of adolescents during first year pandemic?This study aims at analysing Chinese before 1 after outbreak pandemic, providing evidence for strategies to respond impact on adolescent obesity.Physical examinations student health influencing factors questionnaires were conducted...
Background: Robots are increasingly used as interaction partners with humans. Social robots designed to follow expected behavioral norms when engaging humans and available different voices even accents. Some studies suggest that people prefer speak in the user’s dialect, while others indicate a preference for dialects. Methods: Our study examined impact of Berlin dialect on perceived trustworthiness competence robot. One hundred twenty German native speakers ( M age = 32 years, SD 12 years)...
Abstract Chinese students who come to study in the UK and their teachers have adapt cultural differences experience of expectations about teaching learning traditions practices. Qualitative quantitative data were obtained for postgraduate staff them two Scottish universities investigate extent shared perceptions reciprocal adaptations. Students, especially those coming groups, tended deal with problems among themselves, which resulted having limited awareness students' difficulties. Several...
How medical students handle negative emotions expressed by simulated patients during Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCE) has not been fully investigated. We aim to explore (i) whether respond differently different types of patients' emotional cues; and (2) possible effects progressive disclosure cues on students' responses.Forty OSCE consultations were video recorded coded for expressions distress responses using a validated behavioural coding scheme (the Verona Coding...
Abstract This study investigated how touching and being touched by a humanoid robot affects human physiology, impressions of the interaction, attitudes towards robots. 21 healthy adult participants completed 3 (touch style: , pointing ) × 2 (body part: hand vs buttock within-subject design using Pepper robot. Skin conductance response (SCR) was measured during each interaction. Perceived interaction (i.e., friendliness, comfort, arousal) were per questionnaire after Participants’...
The effect of reassurance in managing distress among children who receive procedures a less aversive nature has not been fully investigated.This study aimed to investigate the relationship between by dental staff and behavior preschool receiving preventive community setting.Nurse-child interactions (n = 270) during fluoride varnish application were video recorded coded. Multilevel logistic regression modeled probability occurrence child as function provision, controlling for child-level...