The term “believability” is often used to describe the expectations concerning virtual agents. In this paper we analyze which factors influence the believability of the agent acting as software assistant. We consider several factors such as embodiment, communicative behavior, as well as emotional capabilities. We conduct a perceptive study where we analyze the role of plausible and/or appropria...

OBJECTIVE This study investigated the effects of school-based occupational therapy services on students' handwriting. METHOD Students 7 to 10 years of age with poor handwriting legibility who received direct occupational therapy services (n = 29) were compared with students who did not receive services (n = 9) on handwriting legibility and speed and associated performance components. Visual-m...

Maria Olkkonen Terhi Mustonen Abstract — In this study, the effect of vibration on mobile-phone text legibility caused by walking was examined. Legibility was measured as reading performance and subjective task load when reading from a mobile-phone display while walking on a treadmill at 1.5 km/hour, 3 km/hour, and an individually defined speed (3.9 km/hour on average). Vibration was measured o...

One of the issues in Web page design is the selection of appropriate combinations of background and foreground colors to display textual information. Colors have to be selected in order to guarantee legibility for different devices, viewing conditions and, more important, for all the users, including those with deficient color vision. In this paper we present a tool to select background and for...

This paper will introduce the results of the development of a largely acoustically controllable audio system that additionally is capable of answering versatile request by speech synthesis. The speech-dialogue-controlled audio-contentmanager was realised on the basis of a DAB-receiver attached to a personal compute via USB including a WLANinterface. The development of a speech-communication tha...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether doctors have worse handwriting than other health professionals. DESIGN Comparison of handwriting samples collected prospectively in a standardised 10 seconds' task. SETTING Courses on quality improvement. SUBJECTS 209 health care professionals attending the courses, including 82 doctors. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Legibility rated on a four-point scale by four...

personification is a tool that a writer uses to change the objective position of words into the subjective form. using personification, writers show their creativity. attributing human traits to non-human is the traditional description of personification. in this article we go beyond the limits of this definition. we hypothesized that personification is a process which is formed by many factors...