This paper describes the first of two experiments examining the safety and usability of the Siemens Ali-Scout navigation system, an in-vehicle interface that provides turn-by-turn visual and voice guidance. A total of 54 drivers varying in age drove an instrumented car to four destinations, twice using the Ali-Scout and, subsequently, once using experimenter verbal guidance. Subjects were teste...

S E P T E M B E R / O C T O B E R 2 0 1 5 InsideGNSS 67 Ubiquitous locat ion-aware mobile devices, mainly GPSenabled smartphones, have led to a boom in location-based services (LBS), which have been revolutionizing businesses and lifestyles. Common uses of LBSs include asset tracking, locationbased advertising, emergency roadside service, turn-by-turn navigation, and real-time traffic & road in...

Recent progress with wearable sensors has enabled researchers to capture face-to-face interactions quantitatively and given great insight into human dynamics. One attractive field for applying such sensors is the workplace, where the relationship between the face-to-face behaviors of employees and the productivity of the organization has been investigated. One interesting result of previous stu...

one of the most common and appealing issues grabbing the attention of the critics of contemporary arabic literature is innuendo and its applications which are not much attended to by persian speakers. in this paper we have focused on innuendo and its applications. the questions we have raised and have attempted to respond to include: what is niq?b (innuendo) and where do its roots lie? what is ...

Emotional influences on memory for events have long been documented yet surprisingly little is known about how emotional signals conveyed by contextual cues influence memory for face identity. This study investigated how positively and negatively valenced contextual emotion cues conveyed by body expressions or background scenes influence face memory. The results provide evidence of emotional co...

Deficits in face processing and social impairment are core characteristics of autism spectrum disorder. The present work examined 7-month-old infants at high-risk for developing autism and typically developing controls at low-risk, using a face perception task designed to differentiate between the effects of face identity and facial emotions on neural response using functional Near-Infrared Spe...