There is evidence that the highlighting of the same data items in different views will improve the proficiency of knowledge acquisition tasks. Making the connection for the user will reduce the cognitive load of switc...
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There is evidence that the highlighting of the same data items in different views will improve the proficiency of knowledge acquisition tasks. Making the connection for the user will reduce the cognitive load of switching from one view to another and allows making observations that would not be possible from the two separate views. However, making the connection between conceptually different views might not be so straightforward if the view types are complex and different enough. We compare two conceptually different information visualization techniques called parallel coordinate plots and the reorderable matrix, and consider how the two representations could be combined. We report an experiment where the participants performed tasks with an application having a reorderable matrix and parallel coordinate views to the same data, with linking and without linking. It was found out that although the view linking initially slows the task performance, it will accelerate learning and it is well received by users.
Trust calculation to inform privacy recommendations based on context information involvement (e.g. location information, nearby people) is an increasing need in pervasive environments. In this paper we present a multi...
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Home hand rehabilitation for stroke is becoming increasingly important due to logistic and financial challenges. Developing Daily-life Integrated Hand-rehabilitation Products (DIHP) aims to enable the application of a...
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Virtual and augmented reality (VR / AR) applications have successfully overcome the critical part of the Gartner curve. Investments are made and new products entering the economy. However, a very small percentage of s...
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Background Forest-bathing has demonstrated beneficial effects on mental health. In virtual settings, more research is needed to determine whether such effects can be enhanced through multimodal stimulation. This pilot...
Background Forest-bathing has demonstrated beneficial effects on mental health. In virtual settings, more research is needed to determine whether such effects can be enhanced through multimodal stimulation. This pilot study used visual [V] (360° stereoscopic VR of a Douglas fir forest), auditory [A] (mostly birdsong) recordings, and olfactory [O] stimulation (Douglas fir), presented either unimodally ([V], [O], [A]) or in combination ([VOA]). The potential superiority of the multimodal [VOA] condition in promoting affective and cognitive recovery after stress was tested. Methods N = 136 healthy adults were randomly assigned to one of the four conditions. After a calm-breathing baseline and pre-assessment of affect, participants underwent passive stress induction (image-viewing task), followed by a reassessment of affect and a first cognitive test block (Trail Making Test [executive function], color Stroop [inhibition], Digit Span [working memory]). Subsequently, they were exposed to the forest-stimulation phase. Affect and cognitive performance were reassessed post-intervention. Superiority of the VOA condition in recovery was analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM), suited to model and test supra-additive effects. Results All groups showed significant stress recovery. The multimodal condition [VOA] demonstrated partial superiority, with selective benefits for positive affect and nature connectedness, but not for negative affect. In the cognitive domain, no broad multimodal advantage emerged, although working memory (Digit Span backwards) was significantly better in VOA compared to the auditory condition. Conclusion Multimodal virtual forest bathing may enhance positive affect and nature connectedness, but its benefits appear domain-specific rather than general. There was limited evidence for cognitive enhancement, restricted to working memory. Future research should focus on enhancing sensory immersion, refining outcomes, and ensuring sufficient statistic
Work-related Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) account for 60% of sickness-related absences and even permanent inability to work in the Europe, Long term impacts of MSDs include "Pain chronification'' whic...
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Over a decade ago Hallnäs and Redström's seminal article on Slow Technology [6] argued that the increasing availability of technology in environments outside of the workplace requires interaction design ...
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In this paper an affective interaction model is presented. This model has been developed in order to facilitate the creation of affective resources. In this case, a conversational system able to transmit emotions has ...
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(纸本)9781605583990
In this paper an affective interaction model is presented. This model has been developed in order to facilitate the creation of affective resources. In this case, a conversational system able to transmit emotions has been developed using the proposed model, providing the user a more natural and pleasant conversation.
This paper presents an approach to articulatory inversion using audio and video of the user's face, requiring no special markers. The video is stabilized with respect to the face, and the mouth region cropped out....
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(纸本)9781604234497
This paper presents an approach to articulatory inversion using audio and video of the user's face, requiring no special markers. The video is stabilized with respect to the face, and the mouth region cropped out. The mouth image is projected into a learned independent component subspace to obtain a low-dimensional representation of the mouth appearance. The inversion problem is treated as one of regression;a non-linear regressor using relevance vector machines is trained with a dataset of simultaneous images of a subject's face, acoustic features and positions of magnetic coils glued to the subjects's tongue. The results show the benefit of using both cues for inversion. We envisage the inversion method to be part of a pronunciation training system with articulatory feedback. audio-visual to articulatory inversion.
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