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Joe Yamamura - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Involuntary smoking in a workplace situation--discomfort of nonsmokers and Interpersonal Awareness of smokers
[Nihon koshu eisei zasshi] Japanese journal of public health, 1992Co-Authors: Ken Takahashi, Naohito Yamaguchi, Toshiteru Okubo, Joe Yamamura, Tsutomu Hoshuyama, Satoru Saeki, M Kumai, S Fujii, Noboru IwataAbstract:A questionnaire survey was conducted to examine the socio-behavioral interaction between smokers and nonsmokers in a workplace situation. A socio-behavioral interaction is hypothesized to be centered around the subjective discomfort such as 'bothered feelings' towards involuntary smoking among nonsmokers. Study subjects were 1,134 nonsmokers and 1,457 smokers working in 21 small-scale production companies in Japan. Among nonsmokers, a combined 93.3% reported 'perceived exposure to smoking', 'always', 'often', or 'sometimes' compared to 6.6% reporting 'never'. Similarly, 74.6% experienced 'bothered feelings' 'sometimes', 'always', or 'often' compared to 25.3% reporting 'never'. A combined total of 39.4% expressed their discomfort to smokers 'sometimes', 'often', and 'always' compared to 60.6% who 'never' did. In contrast, 59.1% of smokers responded that they smoked with consideration of nonsmokers' presence (Interpersonal Awareness) 'sometimes', 'often', and 'always' compared to 41.0% for 'never'. 'Bothered feelings' among nonsmokers was significantly lower among those with past smoking history and correlated positively with 'perceived exposure to smoking' (rs = 0.22, p less than 0.001) and with 'expression of discomfort among both male (rs = 0.32, p less than 0.001) and female nonsmokers (rs = 0.34, p less than 0.001). Among male smokers 'Interpersonal Awareness' was significantly higher for those with less cigarette consumption and with past history of smoking cessation. A regression analysis was performed using mean scores calculated for smokers and nonsmokers of each workplace. Lower 'bothered feelings' of nonsmokers significantly correlated with higher 'Interpersonal Awareness' of smokers (r = -0.59, p less than 0.005). These finding imply the presence of socio-behavioral interactions between smokers and nonsmokers and thus suggest the significance of workplace education on involuntary smoking.
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Interpersonal Awareness and Smoking Behavior in the Workplace
Asia-Pacific journal of public health, 1991Co-Authors: Ken Takahashi, Noboru Iwata, Naohito Yamaguchi, Toshiteru Okubo, Joe YamamuraAbstract:A questionnaire survey was conducted in small-scale production companies in Japan to examine "Interpersonal Awareness" and smoking behavior in the workplace. Interpersonal Awareness (IA) of smokers is defined as Awareness of other people's presence when smoking. Study participants were 1048 smokers and 744 nonsmokers, contrasted by worksite: office or production. Controlling for selected baseline variables, office work smokers, who smoked more in the workplace than production work smokers (77.4% vs 51.6%, p < .001), had a higher IA in the workplace (75.5% vs 58.9%, p < .001) but did not differ in IA at home (69.7% vs 66.0%). In male smokers of both worksites, degree of IA in the workplace correlated positively with that at home (rs = .36, p < .001, office; rs = .45, p < .001, production), and daily cigarette consumption correlated negatively with degree of IA at home (rs = -.44, p < .001, office; rs = -.17, p < .001, production). A predilection for smoking more at home than in the workplace correlated with higher IA in the workplace for male office smokers (rs = -.21, p < .01). In contrast, a predilection for smoking more at home than in the workplace correlated with lower degree of IA at home for production smokers of both sexes (rs = 20, p < .001, male; rs = .53, p < .05, female). Interpersonal Awareness is deemed an important behavioral factor for smoking workers.
Mary G. Watson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Stress reduction in the workplace: The effectiveness of psychoeducational programs.
Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1995Co-Authors: Norman Kagan, Henya Kagan, Mary G. WatsonAbstract:Participants in this 3-year field study were 373 employees in the emergency medical service of a municipal fire department. A framework for defining stress and categorizing psychoeducational stress reduction programs was developed. The overall effect as a single treatment type of seven psychoeducational programs based on physiological (M), coping-with-people (A), or Interpersonal Awareness (I) processes, and the four combinations programs, A & I, M & A, M & I, and M & A & I, on measures related to job stress was determined as well as the relative effect of each program in the near and long term. Pre- and postfollow-up improvements were found on standardized psychological instruments and on a job performance measure. Findings support the value of psychoeducational training programs for preventative mental health in the workplace
Saul Greenberg - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Artifact Buddy: The Video
2010Co-Authors: Saul Greenberg, Stephen Voida, Nathan StehrAbstract:In this video, we present a system called Artifact Buddy, which is grounded on the premise that an unaltered Instant Messenger system can simultaneously provide both artifact Awareness and Interpersonal Awareness. In Artifact Buddy, artifacts and people are treated the same way. An artifact – in this case a Microsoft Word document - becomes a first-class IM buddy and behaves like other buddies within a defined group. The artifact-as-buddy knows which people are interested in it and notifies these individuals about its state. Group members can interact with the artifact (and the rest of the group) through the IM system’s standard chat features. Critically, this is all done with a client-side helper application that exploits an existing and unaltered IM system. The IM system does all the heavy lifting: it does the underlying distributed systems work, communication, account control, and so on. For a group that already uses this common IM program, all that is required is that one group member install a helper application to run in the background. Additionally, because our approach takes advantage of the interaction mechanisms already well established by IM, group members can readily join and participate in collaborations without requiring that they learn how to use a completely new application. We built Artifact Buddy as a working technical illustration of how artifact Awareness can be feasibly integrated into an existing instant messenger. The Artifact Buddy system implements a user interface and a wrapper around Microsoft’s Live™ Messenger service. We chose Live Messenger because it has functions typical of most IM services, as well as a public API; we use the open-source DotMSN library to access Live Messenger functions. Through this API, Artifact Buddy programmatically invokes activities such as inviting buddies, setting and receiving state information, sending and receiving chat messages, initiating and responding to file exchanges, and so on. Importantly, Artifact Buddy is not a distributed system. Rather, it is a local application that relies completely on the underlying capabilities of the Live Messenger IM infrastructure to connect and to distribute chat data, status messages and files to others. This video illustrates the key features of Artifact buddy. A companion paper [1] details its background, further features, and intellectual contributions. References
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HICSS - Artifacts as Instant Messaging Buddies
2010 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2010Co-Authors: Saul Greenberg, Stephen Voida, Nathan Stehr, Kimberly TeeAbstract:Interpersonal Awareness is one person's up-to-the moment knowledge about other group members, while artifact Awareness is one person's up-to-the-moment knowledge about other group members' work artifacts; both contribute to fluid group coordination and interaction. Many popular computer-mediated communication systems focus on Interpersonal Awareness, with artifact Awareness being a second-class citizen. To better support artifact Awareness in this domain, we leverage the widespread adoption and technical robustness of an unaltered, commercial instant messaging (IM) system. Our main contribution is to treat an artifact, such as a document, as a first-class instant messaging "buddy." Our system, Artifact Buddy, gives each shared artifact an interactive presence on IM, providing Awareness cues about its editing status and notifications when new versions are committed, enabling simple version control, and facilitating informal group communication. The group's interactions with and conversation around the artifact are also recorded as part of a persistent conversational history.
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Tabletop - Multimodal Split View Tabletop Interaction Over Existing Applications
Second Annual IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems (TABLETOP'07), 2007Co-Authors: Edward Tse, Saul Greenberg, Chia Shen, J. Barnwell, S. Shipman, D. LeighAbstract:While digital tables can be used with existing applications, they are typically limited by the one user per computer assumption of current operating systems. In this paper, we explore multimodal split view interaction - a tabletop whose surface is split into two adjacent projected views - that leverages how people can interact with three types of existing applications in this setting. Independent applications let people see and work on separate systems. Shared screens let people see a twinned view of a single user application. True groupware lets people work in parallel over large digital workspaces. Atop these, we add multimodal speech and gesture interaction capability to enhance Interpersonal Awareness during loosely coupled work.
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Interpersonal Awareness in the domestic realm
Australasian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, 2006Co-Authors: Carman Neustaedter, Kathryn Elliot, Saul GreenbergAbstract:Family and friends naturally maintain an Awareness of each other on an ongoing basis (e.g., knowing one's schedule, health issues) and many technologies are now being contemplated to help fulfill these needs. We use findings from a contextual study along with related work to present Interpersonal Awareness--a spectrum that differentiates how people desire and gather Awareness for individuals across three different social groupings: home inhabitants, intimate socials, and extended socials. We compare this spectrum to workplace Awareness and discuss how our study findings can be used to analyze and design domestic Awareness technologies.
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OZCHI - Interpersonal Awareness in the domestic realm
Proceedings of the 20th conference of the computer-human interaction special interest group (CHISIG) of Australia on Computer-human interaction: desig, 2006Co-Authors: Carman Neustaedter, Kathryn Elliot, Saul GreenbergAbstract:Family and friends naturally maintain an Awareness of each other on an ongoing basis (e.g., knowing one's schedule, health issues) and many technologies are now being contemplated to help fulfill these needs. We use findings from a contextual study along with related work to present Interpersonal Awareness--a spectrum that differentiates how people desire and gather Awareness for individuals across three different social groupings: home inhabitants, intimate socials, and extended socials. We compare this spectrum to workplace Awareness and discuss how our study findings can be used to analyze and design domestic Awareness technologies.
Kyra Shannon - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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552 Mindfulness stress reduction & self harm intervention for recovery coaches & substance using clients
Injury Prevention, 2016Co-Authors: Quintin L. Williams, Kyra ShannonAbstract:Background Nearly half of all children in foster care in the state of Illinois are removed from parents with serious substance abuse problems (Ryan and Huang, 2012). Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities (TASC), provides health and human services to underserved populations who need treatment for alcohol, drug, and mental health problems and advocates through use of Recovery Coaches for this population in courts, jails, prisons, and child welfare systems. Methods We have developed an eight week training program on Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction practices, adapted for Recovery Coaches, who work with substance involved parents seeking to regain custody of their children. The training program will develop stress reduction techniques designed to reduce compassion fatigue, burnout, and also techniques designed to enhance Interpersonal Awareness among Recovery Coaches to enhance the working alliance and improve client outcomes. Results Presently, the Recovery Coach program have serviced over 4,000 substance abusing parents with trying to regain custody with over 5,000 children. The study includes surveys with 21 Recovery Coaches (11 cases and 10 controls); and 300 clients (10 clients per coach). Analyses have determined the change in baseline and three month post intervention measures of mindfulness, compassion fatigue, burnout and secondary trauma among Recovery Coaches trained in MBSR compared to Recovery Coaches who did not receive the intervention. Thirty-eight percent of the clients completed treatment during this reporting period, 26% are in treatment, 22% are currently not in treatment, and 14% failed treatment or were non-compliant. Conclusions This study contributes to the development of the Recovery Coach Model by examining intricacies of the client-worker engagement process that facilitates positive coach/client outcomes with the goal of preventing self harm activities and domestic violence among families dealing with substance use.
Christianne Esposito-smythers - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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An Update on the Latest Treatment Approaches with Suicidal Adolescents
Current Treatment Options in Psychiatry, 2021Co-Authors: Anthony Spirito, Margaret Webb, Shayna M. Cheek, Jennifer C. Wolff, Christianne Esposito-smythersAbstract:To summarize the literature on the treatment of suicidal adolescents in order to determine the psychotherapy approach with the strongest evidence as well as the core treatment techniques that cut across therapies. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) has the strongest evidence base of any current treatment approach for suicidal adolescents, but it is also the most time intensive and expensive. Different variations of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and family therapy also have some limited evidence for efficacy. Although safety planning does not have stand-alone, empirical support to date with adolescents, safety planning is often integrated into the various therapies and has become part of standard care. Ketamine as a psychopharmacologic treatment is just beginning to be studied with suicidal adolescents. Suicidal adolescents are a heterogeneous population presenting with varying levels of symptom severity that require clinicians to use flexible treatment protocols. Techniques used in DBT, and many CBT, protocols, including affect regulation, distress tolerance, and building Interpersonal Awareness and effectiveness skills, are typically core components of treatment. The use of digital technology to extend and enhance treatment of suicidal adolescents seems promising, but is just being tested. Other adjunctive interventions, such as positive affect enhancement, may also be useful additions to the treatment of suicidal adolescents but have limited evidence to date.
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An Update on the Latest Treatment Approaches with Suicidal Adolescents
Current Treatment Options in Psychiatry, 2021Co-Authors: Anthony Spirito, Margaret Webb, Shayna Cheek, Jennifer Wolff, Christianne Esposito-smythersAbstract:Purpose of Review To summarize the literature on the treatment of suicidal adolescents in order to determine the psychotherapy approach with the strongest evidence as well as the core treatment techniques that cut across therapies. Recent Findings Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) has the strongest evidence base of any current treatment approach for suicidal adolescents, but it is also the most time intensive and expensive. Different variations of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and family therapy also have some limited evidence for efficacy. Although safety planning does not have stand-alone, empirical support to date with adolescents, safety planning is often integrated into the various therapies and has become part of standard care. Ketamine as a psychopharmacologic treatment is just beginning to be studied with suicidal adolescents. Summary Suicidal adolescents are a heterogeneous population presenting with varying levels of symptom severity that require clinicians to use flexible treatment protocols. Techniques used in DBT, and many CBT, protocols, including affect regulation, distress tolerance, and building Interpersonal Awareness and effectiveness skills, are typically core components of treatment. The use of digital technology to extend and enhance treatment of suicidal adolescents seems promising, but is just being tested. Other adjunctive interventions, such as positive affect enhancement, may also be useful additions to the treatment of suicidal adolescents but have limited evidence to date.
