Introduction Talking heads provide a multimodal output component for human-computer-interfaces. They consist of facial visual models that are synchronized with speech synthesis modules concerning speech articulation. Due to their reduction to a human head or upper body, articulation is often more clearly visible compared to a full human body due to the possibly bigger display of the head. There...

To contribute to cognitive engineering for mobile users, we propose that mobility itself, the environment, and individual differences all have to be incorporated into a unified framework. To make this argument, we present both a position statement and results from a behavioral study. Forty participants were taken individually to 12 locations on different floors in a library where they estimated...

BACKGROUND Reliable and comprehensive measurement of physical activity settings is needed to examine environment-behavior relations. METHODS Surveyed park professionals (n = 34) and users (n = 29) identified park and playground elements (e.g., trail) and qualities (e.g., condition). Responses guided observational instrument development for environmental assessment of public recreation spaces ...

The I3 Model is a general-purpose metatheory. It posits that three orthogonal processes influence the likelihood and intensity of a given behavior, including aggressive behavior. Instigation encompasses immediate environmental stimuli (e.g., provocation) that normatively afford an aggressive response. Impellance encompasses situational or dispositional qualities (e.g., trait aggressiveness) tha...

Comparative Study of Coal Qualities from Three Large Coal basins in Xinjiang, Northwest China / JING LI (1,2, *), XINGUO ZHUANG (1), XAVIER QUEROL (2), ORIOL FONT (2) (1) Institute of Sedimentary Basin and Mineral, Faculty of Earth Resources, China University of Geosciences, Hubei, 430074, People's Republic of China (2) Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research, CSIC, C/ LLuis So...

abstractesmaeel darabkolahi 1. roohollah torabi*21. assistant prfessor of theoloji faculty religions martyr beheshti2. master teaching educataion eslameminent god predicative qualities are among interpretation and discourse disputes that mentioned in quran and revayat. predicative qualities are those that intellect does not have clear implication in them and because of attributing god in religi...

The discussions which follow have the aim of giving scientific expression to a psychological problem often noticed in philosophy but not yet, as we believe, made fully precise. Our task-already intimated in the title in the employment of an unusual and therefore only partially intelligible termcan be characterized briefly as one of explaining and defining the new concept signalled by this term ...

Seventeenthand eighteenth-century discussions of the senses are often thought to contain a profound truth: some perceptible properties are secondary qualities, dispositions to produce certain sorts of experiences in perceivers. Any apparent plausibility this has often derives, we argue, from an erroneous picture of perception. The colors are typically held to be one of the clearest examples of ...