Background Many organisations have realised the importance of human resource for their competitive advantage. Empowering employees is therefore essential for organisational effectiveness. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between employee participation with outcome variables such as organisational commitment, job satisfaction, perception of justice in an organisation and readines...

There are often large perceptual distortions of shapes lying on the ground plane, even in well-lit environments. These distortions occur under conditions for which the perception of location i saccurate. Four hypotheses are considered for reconciling these seemingly paradoxical results, after which 2 experiments are reported that lend further support to 1 of them--that perception of shapeand pe...

The introduction of less invasive interfaces in control usually carry with them new drawbacks such as less perception, less dexterity, etc. This work tackles the experimentation of new means of perceptual feedback in teleoperation, when the operator guides the task by means of a visual exoskeleton, and consequently without any mechanical device that can be provided with haptic devices. The work...

on real world inputs. However, it is frequently ignored because modeling context by definition requires modeling features outside of the chosen domain. We model context by using peripheral perception, which basically means non-attentional features. This naturally and intuitively defines what it means to model context. We give the results of two experiments in the domain of wearable sensors (cam...

This study presents a comparative analysis of acoustic and perceptual cues to place of articulation in English fricatives. Acoustic parameters investigated include spectral peak location, spectral moments, locus equations, F2 onset, overall noise amplitude, relative amplitude, and fricative noise duration. Perception data were collected for isolated fricatives and fricativevowel syllables. The ...

In this text, an unconventional paradigm for robotic multisensory perception and action will be presented in the form of a generalisation of a framework devised in previous work by the authors, the Bayesian Volumetric Map (BVM). The BVM, a log-spherical inference grid providing an egocentric and probabilistic representation of spatial information, was designed to bridge multisensory perception ...