UNLABELLED Distractions and interference can include visual (e.g. staff obscuring monitors), audio (e.g. noise, irrelevant communication) and equipment problems. Level of distraction is usually defined as I: relatively inconsequential; II: > one member of the surgical team affected; III: the entire surgical team affected. The aim of this study was to observe the frequency and impact of distract...

This paper describes the acquisition of the multichannel multimodal database AV@CAR for automatic audio-visual speech recognition in cars. Automatic speech recognition (ASR) plays an important role inside vehicles to keep the driver away from distraction. It is also known that visual information (lip-reading) can improve accuracy in ASR under adverse conditions as those within a car. The corpus...

Cochlear implants (CIs) are auditory prostheses which restore hearing via electrical stimulation of the auditory nerve. The successful adaptation of auditory cognition to the CI input depends to a substantial degree on individual factors. We pursued an electrophysiological approach toward an analysis of cortical responses that reflect perceptual processing stages and higher-level responses to C...

The present study had two aims. First, to determine if bimodal audio–visual targets allow for greater inhibition of visual distractors, which in turn may lead to greater saccadic trajectory deviations away from those distractors. Second, to determine if bimodal targets can reduce age diVerences in the ability to generate deviations away, as older adults tend to beneWt more from multisensory int...

Distraction from mobile devices increases pedestrian risks at intersections. Innovative interventions are currently installed road and rail intersections to alert pedestrians. These will be effective only if pedestrians modify their behaviour. The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) posits that behaviour changes as a result of behavioural intention, which is affected by perceived usefulness ease ...