Background Efforts aimed at health care reform and continued advances in information
technologies have prompted interest among providers and researchers in patient web portals. …

Objectives There is limited evidence about the association between health literacy and use
of patient web portals in patients with chronic illnesses. The objective of this review was to …

The “mediated sense of presence” is a technology-induced illusion of being present in one (simulated)
place when one is actually present in another (physical) place. Typically …

Evidence-based practice related to autism research is a controversial topic. Governmental
entities and national agencies are defining evidence-based practice as a specific set of …

Recently, 360 panorama technologies have been used to create videos and pictures of real
and virtual environments, thus opening new possibilities for psychological research. The aim …

A growing body of evidence suggests that people with Alzheimer's Disease (AD) show
compromised spatial abilities. In addition, there exists from the earliest stages of AD a specific …

Methods This is an observational study with a retrospective postsurvey of participants’ user
characteristics and degree of sense of presence. Twenty-nine members from 3 Air Force …

Autism is a complex neurobiological disorder that is part of a group of disorders known as
autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Today, one in 150 individuals is diagnosed with autism. …

Background: Today’s health care environment encourages health care consumers to take
an active role in managing their health. As digital natives, young educated adults do much of …

We present an overview of the approach we used and the challenges we encountered while
designing software for smartphones to facilitate communication and improve social skills of …