Visual and verbal feedback

This study provides insight into the current fitness testing practices in elite male soccer. One hundred and two practitioners from professional soccer leagues across 24 countries completed an online survey comprising 29 questions, with five sections: a) background information, b) testing selection, c) testing implementation, d) data analysis, and e) data reporting. Frequency analysis was used to evaluate the responses to fixed response questions and thematic analysis was used for open-ended questions to generate clear and distinct themes...

OBJECTIVES: The objective was to develop an innovative method of training emergency medicine (EM) resident physicians to perform the head impulse test (HIT) component of the HINTS (head impulse test, nystagmus, test of skew) examination using video-oculography (VOG) device feedback. METHODS: Using principles from motor learning theory and Ericsson's framework for expertise, we developed a training innovation utilizing VOG device feedback to teach the degree (10°-20°) and velocity (>100°/s) of head turn required for the HIT...

OBJECTIVE: To analyze real-world rehabilitation technology (RT) use, with a view toward enhancing RT development and adoption. DESIGN: A convergent, mixed-methods study using direct field observations, semi-structured templates, and summative content analysis. SETTING: Ten neurorehabilitation units in a single health system. PARTICIPANTS: 3 research clinicians (1OT, 2PTs) observed ∼60 OTs and 70 PTs in inpatient; ∼18 OTs and 30 PTs in outpatient...

A delayed foveal mask affects perception of peripheral stimuli. The effect is determined by the timing of the mask and by the similarity with the peripheral stimulus. A congruent mask enhances performance, while an incongruent one impairs it. It is hypothesized that foveal masks disrupt a feedback mechanism reaching the foveal cortex. This mechanism could be part of a broader circuit associated with mental imagery, but this hypothesis has not as yet been tested. We investigated the link between mental imagery and foveal feedback...

Current accounts of behavioral and neurocognitive correlates of plasticity in blindness are just beginning to incorporate the role of speech and verbal production. We assessed Vygotsky/Luria's speech mediation hypothesis, according to which speech activity can become a mediating tool for perception of complex stimuli, specifically, for encoding tactual/haptic spatial patterns which convey pictorial information (haptic pictures). We compared verbalization in congenitally totally blind (CTB) and age-matched sighted but visually impaired (VI) children during a haptic picture naming task which included two repeated, test-retest, identifications...

Patient education and informed consent are required prior to adjuvant radiation therapy (RT) for early breast cancer (EBC), and include the role, rationale, potential toxicities and practicalities of the treatment process. Current education of patients about RT is verbal, in the form of a consultation by a radiation oncologist, often supplemented with print or online materials. This approach is limited by its doctor-dependency and non-standardised nature. Video education is being recognised increasingly as an opportunity to remediate this and appeal to patients' preference for visual learning...

INTRODUCTION: Visual disturbances are the most common symptoms of migraine aura. These symptoms can be described systematically by subdividing them into elementary visual symptoms. Since visual symptoms of migraine aura are not easy to describe verbally, we developed a collection of images illustrating previously reported elementary visual symptoms. OBJECTIVES: To test a standardised visual migraine aura iconography in a large population of migraine with aura patients and to improve it based on the participants' feedback...

This report details a service evaluation for a learning disability child and adolescent mental health service. The project aimed to explore nonpsychologist healthcare professionals' views of the accessibility and utility of cognitive assessment reports produced in the service. Semistructured interviews were conducted with eight healthcare professionals. Thematic analysis identified three themes: value of reports, readability, and acknowledging multiple audiences, each with supplementary subthemes. The following were recommended: shorter reports; simpler language; examples and recommendations pertinent and applicable to individual clients (supported by the case holder if the assessor is unfamiliar with the client); visual information to support written text; assessor to provide verbal feedback in addition to the written report; main report should contain information most pertinent to families and professionals: the clients' level of functioning/abilities and recommended interventions, whilst the appendix should contain supplementary information such as scoring and performance on individual subtests...

We present an avatar system designed to facilitate the embodiment of humanoid robots by human operators, validated through iCub3, a humanoid developed at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia. More precisely, the paper makes two contributions: First, we present the humanoid iCub3 as a robotic avatar that integrates the latest significant improvements after about 15 years of development of the iCub series. Second, we present a versatile avatar system enabling humans to embody humanoid robots encompassing aspects such as locomotion, manipulation, voice, and facial expressions with comprehensive sensory feedback including visual, auditory, haptic, weight, and touch modalities...

OBJECTIVE: The role of intellectual disability (ID) in exercise regulation has remained largely unexplored, yet recent studies have indicated cognitive-related impaired pacing skills in people with ID. In a well-controlled laboratory environment, this study aims to (1) establish the role of ID in pacing and explore the ability of people with and without ID to maintain a steady pace; (2) to investigate if verbal feedback and/or (3) the presence of a pacer can improve the ability of people with ID to maintain a preplanned submaximal velocity...

BACKGROUND: Hypoglycemia is a frequent and acute complication in type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) and is associated with a higher risk of car mishaps. Currently, hypoglycemia can be detected and signaled through flash glucose monitoring or continuous glucose monitoring devices, which require manual and visual interaction, thereby removing the focus of attention from the driving task. Hypoglycemia causes a decrease in attention, thereby challenging the safety of using such devices behind the wheel...

BACKGROUND: Augmented feedback strategies have been demonstrated to enhance jump-related biomechanics. Nevertheless, its effect on classical ballet is still unknown. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether a multimodal augmented feedback session is effective for improving lower limb and trunk kinematics during a classical ballet single-leg jump. METHODS: In a single-blind randomized controlled trial, 36 amateur classical ballet dancers were randomly assigned to either a control group (n = 18) to receive a brief warm-up session, or an augmented feedback group (n = 18) to receive, in addition to a brief warm-up session, a combined visual feedback session associated with verbal instruction...

This study investigates the effectiveness of visual feedback in reducing trunk compensation during one-arm reaching exercises using an end-effector robot. Results suggest that visual feedback is more effective than verbal feedback in suppressing trunk compensation, as evidenced by lower trunk movements. Synchronized target position with respect to trunk motion exhibited a suppressive effect on trunk motion, as observed by a reduction in trunk standard deviation, trunk root mean square, and trunk difference between the starting and ending positions...

Core stabilization training utilizes principles of motor learning to retrain control of the trunk muscles and lead to improvements in chronic non-specific low back pain (CNLBP). To compare the effects of biofeedback sensor and conventional physiotherapist (PT) feedback during core stabilization and activity training in patients with CNLBP. Thirty-eight patients with CNLBP were randomly assigned to Biofeedback (n = 19) or PT feedback (n = 19) groups. Patients continued 12 sessions of combined core stabilization and activity training...

OBJECTIVE: To demonstrate the neuropsychological correlates of atypical neurosyphilis and the importance of delivering assessment results in a culturally sensitive manner. METHOD: The patient was a 52-year-old African American male with 12 years of education who was raised in a rural, southern town and worked as a delivery driver. He was hospitalized after three weeks of altered mental status, memory loss, and seizures. Electroencephalography (EEG) showed left lateralized periodic discharges...

BACKGROUND: Chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMSP) affects between 13% and 47% of the population, with a global growth rate of 20.3% within the last 15 years, suggesting that there is a high need for effective treatments. Pain diaries have long been a common tool in nonpharmacological pain treatment for monitoring and providing feedback on patients' symptoms in daily life. More recently, positive refocusing techniques have come to be used, promoting pain-free episodes and positive outcomes rather than focusing on managing the pain...

BACKGROUND: The incompatible response hypothesis suggests that emotions and other affective states can counteract each other when incompatible. With the present study, we focused on two negative emotions (anger and anxiety) associated with different action tendencies (approach vs. avoidance). Specifically, we wanted to investigate if an anxiety manipulation, subsequent to an anger manipulation, would show a counteracting effect of the approach action tendencies associated with the initial anger manipulation and vice versa for anxiety and avoidance tendencies...

BACKGROUND: Practitioner and family experiences of pediatric re/habilitation can be inequitable. The Young Children's Participation and Environment Measure (YC-PEM) is an evidence-based and promising electronic patient-reported outcome measure that was designed with and for caregivers for research and practice. This study examined historically minoritized caregivers' responses to revised YC-PEM content modifications and their perspectives on core intelligent virtual agent functionality needed to improve its reach for equitable service design...

INTRODUCTION: The learning curve in minimally invasive surgery (MIS) is steep compared to open surgery. One of the reasons is that training in the operating room in MIS is mainly limited to verbal instructions. The iSurgeon telestration device with augmented reality (AR) enables visual instructions, guidance, and feedback during MIS. This study aims to compare the effects of the iSurgeon on the training of novices performing repeated laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) on a porcine liver compared to traditional verbal instruction methods...

Language models are widely used for different Natural Language Processing tasks while suffering from a lack of personalization. Personalization can be achieved by, e.g., fine-tuning the model on training data that is created by the user (e.g., social media posts). Previous work shows that the acquisition of such data can be challenging. Instead of adapting the model's parameters, we thus suggest selecting a model that matches the user's mental model of different thematic concepts in language. In this paper, we attempt to capture such individual language understanding of users...