http://www.techpsych.net/ AATP Interactive is the weblog of the American Association for Technology in Psychiatry. en-us aatpweblog@techpsych.net Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:07:06 -0500 http://www.techpsych.net/archives/000289.html Over the years, the way that we interact with games has changed to allow increasing levels of sophistication and control. We evolved from keyboards to joysticks to touch and motion controlled games such as the Wii which allows the user... http://www.techpsych.net/archives/000288.html The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has teamed up with Unbound Medicine to create an online reference source for pediatricians. The system can be accessed via computer, or wirelessly via PDA's and smart phones. The online’s content consists of three... http://www.techpsych.net/archives/000287.html Last week at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society meeting in New York City, Penn State researchers reported on a study to investigate how virtual teams can better solve real world problems by collaborating in the virtual world. An experiment... http://www.techpsych.net/archives/000286.html Researchers in the Department of Medical Informatics, Rijeka University School of Medicine, Croatia conducted a study of medical bloggers. The authors point out that despite their popularity, however, little is known about blogs or their creators. They approached 197 medical... http://www.techpsych.net/archives/000285.html Researchers from Tampere University of Technology and the University of Helsinki, Finland have developed what they are calling the "first health-promoting mobile phone technology in the world." While screening and diagnosing sleep disorders, researchers noticed that mobile phones have a... http://www.techpsych.net/archives/000283.html Two interesting articles on robotics describe and study the issue of "how human-like should robots be?" We have anthropomorphized many objects but robots, since most are interactive, easily lend themselves to being endowed with human qualities and personalities. We have... http://www.techpsych.net/archives/000282.html Faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh are planning a clinical trial to compare the effectiveness of online cognitive behavioral therapy, delivered through a Web site and augmented with... http://www.techpsych.net/archives/000281.html The first Medicine 2.0 conference took place last week in Toronto. It is described as "a new, annual international conference on Web 2.0 applications in health and medicine, organized and co-sponsored by the Journal of Medical Internet Research, the International... http://www.techpsych.net/archives/000280.html A review article on the use of Virtual Worlds in healthcare education has just been published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research(JMIR). According to the abstract, "the author provides a critical overview of three-dimensional (3-D) virtual worlds and “serious... http://www.techpsych.net/archives/000279.html In a recent online survey, 42 percent of Internet users admitted to logging into other people's email and social networking accounts without their knowledge. A poll by Internet Evolution of 300 readers asked "Have you ever logged into someone's email... http://www.techpsych.net/archives/000278.html A research team at the University of Reading has developed a robot which is controlled by a biological brain formed from cultured neurons. This cutting edge research is the first step to examine how memories manifest themselves in the brain,... http://www.techpsych.net/archives/000275.html Clinical decision support(CDS) tools, technologies that provide information to aid the diagnosis and treatment of patients, are set to make dramatic changes to the practice of medicine, according to a new report by Datamonitor. Early adopters of EHRs have begun... http://www.techpsych.net/archives/000274.html Video games are among the most popular entertainment media in the world. New, groundbreaking research published in this month's Pediatrics Journal shows that a specially designed video game can promote positive behaviors in young cancer patients that enhance the effectiveness... http://www.techpsych.net/archives/000273.html Creating the worlds largest body of health information on the web is no easy feat but Internet entrepreneurs are teaming with doctors, researchers and other medical professionals to create Medpedia - a Wikipedia for health. According to an article in... http://www.techpsych.net/archives/000271.html The basic premise of most technologies is that people need to adapt to the technology to make it function at an optimal level. But shouldn't it ultimately be the other way around? A paper presented at the Association for the...