The empirical characteristics of human pattern vision defy theoretically-driven expectations

Investigating the influence of situations and expectations in user behavior - empirical analysis in human-robot interaction

Chronically dissatisfied: work characteristics, personal expectations and job satisfaction: empirical evidence in young italian workers

Job satisfaction is the degree to which people like their jobs. Companies are interested in job satisfaction of their employees, because it is positively correlated with certain desired outcomes and contributes to reduce significantly the rate of absenteeism and job turnover. Job satisfaction needs to be divided into three separate but related components: the overall opinion about the job, affe...

Human Computer Interaction Using Vision-Based Hand Gesture Recognition

With the rapid emergence of 3D applications and virtual environments in computer systems; the need for a new type of interaction device arises. This is because the traditional devices such as mouse, keyboard, and joystick become inefficient and cumbersome within these virtual environments. In other words, evolution of user interfaces shapes the change in the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). In...

The PeRCeiVe Lab From fine-grained pattern recognition to “big data”-driven computer vision

The Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision Lab PeRCeiVe Lab at the Department of Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering of the University of Catania is actively involved in pursuing cutting edge research on issues related to Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and their applications to medical image analysis, ecological informatics and bioinformatics. More specifically, the PeRCe...

The Modeling of Expectations in Empirical DSGE Models: a Survey

This paper surveys the treatment of expectations in estimated Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) macroeconomic models. A recent notable development in the empirical macroeconomics literature has been the rapid growth of papers that build structural models, which include a number of frictions and shocks, and which are confronted with the data using sophisticated full-information econo...