The study and characterization of user behavior in the context of human computer interaction allows us to improve the design of interactive applications. Using certain sensors to analyze user behavior such as an eye tracking system can be intrusive and uncomfortable. In this paper, we report on an experiment to determine the minimum field of view that permits the user to perform an effective se...

Relationships between self-harm and vulnerability factors were studied in a general population of 432 participants, of whom 30% reported some experience of self-harm. This group scored higher on dissociation and childhood trauma, had lower self-worth, and reported more negative intrusive thoughts. Among the non-harming group, 10% scored similarly to the self-harmers on the dissociation and self...

An accurate method of estimating the efficiency of in-service motors is needed in order to determine the performance of installed motors without disrupting the motor driven process.. In this paper, the motor efficiency is estimated using a non-intrusive implementation of the compensated slip method. The motor speed is accurately estimated using motor vibration signature analysis. A few other ef...

The reported study focuses on overlapping speech, transcription, annotation and disfluency analysis in an 8-hour audio corpus of French political interviews. Overlaps are frequent (on average 3-4 overlaps per minute) and of short duration (5% of data), non-intrusive overlaps being significantly shorter than intrusive ones. Disfluencies include repetitions, revisions and filled pauses. Manual an...

In this article, we present an approach towards a new nonintrusive speech quality estimator. The proposed method facilitates the evaluation of speech telephony services and provides diagnostic information by assessing dimensions of the perceptual quality space. One of these quality dimensions is Loudness, which describes a non optimal sound level. As an important part of the proposed model, a n...

This study explored whether a relatively poor ability to resist or inhibit interference from irrelevant information in working memory is associated with experiencing undesirable intrusive memories. Non-selected participants (N=91) completed a self-report measure of intrusive memories, and carried out experimental tasks intended to measure two different types of inhibition: resistance to proacti...

Relationships between self-harm and vulnerability factors were studied in a general population of 432 participants, of whom 30% reported some experience of self-harm. This group scored higher on dissociation and childhood trauma, had lower self worth, and reported more negative intrusive thoughts. Amongst the non-harming group, 10% scored similarly to the self-harmers on the dissociation and se...

Non-intrusive image-based techniques for measuring surface river velocities have rapidly evolved as a cost-effective and safe means quantifying flow patterns. Large-scale particle image velocimetry (LSPIV) can provide instantaneous over large spatial footprint with little pre-calibration compared to traditional techniques. Assessment of the distribution in hydraulic models has been comparativel...

Universal mobile telecommunication system (UMTS) is a third-generation mobile communications system that supports wireless wideband multimedia applications. The primary aim of this study is to present learning models based on neural networks for objective, non-intrusive prediction of video quality over wireless local area network (WLAN) and UMTS networks for video applications. The contribution...