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Realism is not all! User engagement with task-related interface characters
2007
Interacting with computers
However, the effects of interface characters on the user are not well understood. We developed an integrative framework, called I-PEFiC, to explain 'persona' and realism effects on the user. ...
Moreover, perceived aesthetics and task-relevance further influenced user engagement. ...
Acknowledgements We are thankful to the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Faculty of Sciences, Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, who granted a 4-year research track (VUBIS) to the first author. ...
doi:10.1016/j.intcom.2006.08.005
fatcat:nro42tonk5aklkl4ymw5vflco4
Gender Equality and E-Scooters: Mind the Gap! A Statistical Analysis of the Sicily Region, Italy
2021
Social Sciences
Today, mobility pursues the objectives of sustainability and resilience through a series of short-, medium- and long-term strategies that encourage the collaboration of the population to the choices of ...
Specifically, age, job occupation and perceived safety level of micromobility modes play the most important role. ...
Micro-mobility is among the modal choices that should be encouraged by promoting not only the purchase but also the use and diffusion of sharing services. ...
doi:10.3390/socsci10100403
doaj:2d8559d3d73a46118b487b5ea19166bf
fatcat:fxwcatcttjc3jie5jhyftbj7h4
Rethinking disability in Amartya Sen's approach: ICT and equality of opportunity
2010
Ethics and Information Technology
When one contemplates these technologies, it becomes clear that factors such as accessibility, design for all, and user participation in development and implementation processes are key strategies in promoting ...
equal rights and equal opportunity for persons with disability in the different environments of the information society. ...
Acknowledgements This article is a result of the research project "Filosofía de las tecnociencias sociales y humanas" (FFI2008-03599) of the Spanish R&D Plan 2009-2011, and the CSIC Intramural project ...
doi:10.1007/s10676-010-9254-2
fatcat:gihjmzv36zhrdbeptnkyqv7aye
Digit ratio (2D:4D) predicts facial, but not voice or body odour, attractiveness in men
2011
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences
body odour and vocal characteristics could be more dependent on variation in adult circulating testosterone levels. ...
The results were interpreted in terms of differential effects of prenatal and circulating testosterone, male facial shape being supposedly more dependent on foetal levels (reflected by 2D:4D ratio), whereas ...
and David Perrett for use of the PSYCHOMORPH software. ...
doi:10.1098/rspb.2011.0544
pmid:21508034
pmcid:PMC3189377
fatcat:7pasj2jobnerzcgjpqiwjcpwlu
Humanode Whitepaper: You are [not] a bot
[article]
2021
arXiv
pre-print
All of these implemented technologies have nuances that are crucial for the integrity of the network. ...
The main goal of Humanode is to create a stable and just financial network that relies on the existence of human life. ...
This creates an incentive to continue operating a Humanode server, ensuring the network's long-term stability. Not all of the transactions are equal. ...
arXiv:2111.13189v1
fatcat:6pc4nj46sjdkvketwydvwh2ulu
When Is A Guitar Not A Guitar? Cultural Form, Input Modality And Expertise
2018
Zenodo
Each instrument possessed varying degrees of 'guitar-likeness', based either on the form and aesthetics of the guitar or the specific mode of interaction. ...
In this paper we consider the case of designing DMIs for use in existing musical cultures, and pose questions around the social and technical acceptability of certain design choices relating to global ...
performers and perceivers. ...
doi:10.5281/zenodo.1302588
fatcat:rgtnmdiyhna6ve5txtqevpb5qa
To immerse or not? Experimenting with two virtual retail environments
2017
Information Technology and People
are available for all. ...
Abstract Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to examine the determinants of users' simulated experience in a virtual store and to show the subsequent impact of that experience on engagement. ...
So both environments are 3D, but the modalities of interaction and the quality of graphics and realism change totally. The processes of the experiments are presented in Table I . ...
doi:10.1108/itp-03-2015-0069
fatcat:dgqk5tewnvafzgz5zas67qnn5e
Toolkit on equality in governance structures, procedures and implementation
2021
Zenodo
It is based on experiences and processes developed in the HBP. ...
Additionally, the European framework for equality as well as terminology related to EDI are elaborated. ...
, for instance, by influencing whether and how occupational choices and achievements are recognised. ...
doi:10.5281/zenodo.5575772
fatcat:du2zwadi2rbc3fx47epiakpsgi
Hearing Aids Benefit Recognition of Words in Emotional Speech but Not Emotion Identification
2018
Trends in Hearing
In contrast to the present findings, previous studies did not find age-related differences between younger and older normal-hearing listeners in how emotion affected emotion-identification performance. ...
In the main experiment, older hearing aid users were presented with sentences spoken in seven emotion conditions, with and without their own hearing aids. ...
The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. ...
doi:10.1177/2331216518801736
pmid:30249171
pmcid:PMC6156210
fatcat:rojxl6xharhgxbafb64w6gbs6a
"They Are After Quantity, Not Quality": Health Providers' Perceptions of Fee Exemption Policies in Morocco
2018
International Journal of Health Policy and Management
Vincent De Brouwere for having made this study possible in organisational terms and for his critical review of the article. In addition, the authors are grateful to Dr. Amina Essolbi and Dr. ...
It has received additional approval by the Institutional Review Board of the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium and the ethical committee for biomedical research of the University of Rabat ...
Healthcare users, wealthy and poor, are said to practice cherry picking: they take what is free in public facilities and go in the private sector for all what is to be paid for. " Influences of FHC Policies ...
doi:10.15171/ijhpm.2018.76
pmid:30709086
pmcid:PMC6358657
fatcat:yzfn6ad7fndfndeamcabwuekmm
Gender, data protection & the smart city: Exploring the role of DPIA in achieving equality goals
2022
Zenodo
When reflecting upon the role of law as an instrument influencing urban planning and shaping urban environments, the most immediate link is to environmental and urban legislation. ...
Enquiry into the ways in which smart cities, where urban and data protection challenges merge, might exacerbate dynamics of oppression against women, and how European data protection law could address ...
For example, it could recommend disaggregating information concerning age, race, abilities or sexual orientation of the app users, to understand how harassment and violence are perceived by different women ...
doi:10.5281/zenodo.6539248
fatcat:7truoip33bblfn5h64a4aij5oi
Modeling input modality choice in mobile graphical and speech interfaces
2015
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
The experimental results indicate that modality efficiency and input performance are important moderators of modality choice. ...
Accordingly, we establish a utility-driven model that provides probability estimations of modality usage, based on the parameters of modality efficiency and input performance. ...
We would like to thank all colleagues at T-Labs for their valuable discussions, Matthias Rath for his impact on the described work as well as Benjamin Jöckel and Michael Minge for their help during the ...
doi:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2014.11.004
fatcat:zjnaozhhkve6zea3zvc5dzvkcu
On the desire to not kill your players: Rethinking sound in pervasive and mixed reality games
2013
International Conference on Foundations of Digital Games
Immersion refers to an experience of being drawn into the game world, a process is centrally dependent on the players' simultaneous removal from everyday life also called disassociation. ...
It also identifies engaging aesthetic opportunities that require non-immersive sound, which are currently being overlooked because of the assumption that good sound needs to be immersive. ...
Here, too, in order to mix, the user must perceive the boundaries of the material and interact with it in a conscious fashion. ...
dblp:conf/fdg/Ekman13
fatcat:543o4kzi7fgevpiiztwcudhita
Attention Is Amplification, Not Selection
2018
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
We argue that recent empirical findings and theoretical models shed new light on the nature of attention. ...
According to the resulting amplification view, attentional phenomena can be unified at the neural level as the consequence of the amplification of certain input signals of attention-independent perceptual ...
Acknowledgements We would like to thank Denis Buehler, Wayne Wu, and two anonymous referees for their insightful comments on earlier versions of this article. ...
doi:10.1093/bjps/axy065
fatcat:h23xmfbn2re7rhhngbujvqwm4e
Taste Sensitivity is Associated with Food Consumption Behavior but not with Recalled Pleasantness
2019
Foods
In conclusion, it may be more informative to study the influence of taste sensitivity on food consumption behavior with taste modalities separately rather than with a general indicator of taste sensitivity ...
For the first time, connections between food consumption behavior, pleasantness, and taste sensitivity are studied with five taste modalities. ...
Acknowledgments: The authors are very grateful to all the study participants.
Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare no conflict of interest. ...
doi:10.3390/foods8100444
pmid:31569738
pmcid:PMC6835699
fatcat:jeiznl5hmvewbduk2g2tamdce4
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