The paper describes an auditory experiment aimed at testing whether the intrinsic loudness of a stimulus with a given voice quality influences the way in which it signals affect. Synthesised voice quality stimuli in which intrinsic loudness was systematically manipulated were presented to listeners to test the effect of this manipulation on the affective colouring of the stimuli. The results sh...

For the prediction of the global properties in materials, dynamic tests have shown important advantages over static tests. Despite the superiority of dynamic tests, a high level of precision is required on the measured modal information. The quality of the experimental measurements and modeling, the actual test conditions are very important for further use of the data. The purpose of this resea...

Explicitly presented task-irrelevant targets are facilitated in a later recognition test, provided they frequently appear synchronously with targets from a previously presented relevant task (Dewald & Sinnett, 2013). This dual task paradigm was used to test the relationship between the modality of which a primary task was presented, and the modality of a subsequently presented secondary task. E...

This paper presents our work on recording a multi-modal database containing emotional audio and video recordings. In designing the recording strategies a special attention was payed to gather data involving spontaneous emotions and therefore obtain a more realistic training and testing conditions for experiments. With specially planned scenarios including playing computer games and conducting a...

Modal active control enables modifications of the damping and the frequencies of the different resonances of a system. A self-sustained oscillating wind instrument is modelled as a disturbance coupled to a resonator through a non-linear coupling. The aim of this study is to present simulations of modal active control applied to a modeled simplified self-sustained oscillating wind instrument (e....

In this paper we address the problem of multi-modal coregistration of medical 3D images. Several techniques for the rigid registration of multi-modal images have been developed; in one of those the Kullback-Leibler distance is used to align 2D-3D angiographic images [1]. In this paper we refine this technique and investigate its performance on the registration of pairs of 3D CT/US images. We te...

A structural damage detection method based on modal strain energy change (MSEC) is applied to a 3D steel frame structure tested in the laboratory. Very limited measurement is available to be expanded to the full dimension of the FEM of the test structure. Both numerical and experimental studies are performed in this study, and the result shows that the damage locations are successfully identifi...

In this paper we test the effectiveness of a unifying life-cycle framework for the development of affective bi-modal interfaces. The life-cycle framework is called MBIUI and may be used for the application of many different multi-criteria decision making theories in intelligent user interfaces. As a case study we use an affective bi-modal educational system. More specifically, we describe the e...

Sign language activates the auditory cortex of deaf subjects, which is evidence of cross-modal plasticity. Lip-reading (visual phonetics), which involves audio-visual integration, activates the auditory cortex of hearing subjects. To test whether audio-visual cross-modal plasticity occurs within areas involved in cross-modal integration, we used functional MRI to study seven prelingual deaf sig...

The theoretical relation between preattentive processes and automatic processes is different in different approaches to attention and automaticity. In the modal view, automatic and preattentive processes are one and the same; automatic processing is preattentive. In recent views that treat automaticity as a memory phenomenon, automatic processing is postattentive. These views are described and ...