Auditory displays for mobile systems, such as service robots, have been developed. The design of directional sounds and of additional sounds for robot states (e.g., Heavy Load), as well as the design of more complicated robot sound tracks are explained. Basic musical elements and robot movement sounds have been combined. Two experimental studies, on the understandability of the directional soun...

This is a selective review of the published literature on object-choice tasks, where participants use directional cues to find hidden objects. This literature comprises the efforts of researchers to make sense of the sense-making capacities of our nearest living relatives. This chapter is written to highlight some nonsensical conclusions that frequently emerge from this research. The data sugge...

The perception of visual motion is critical for animal navigation, and flies are a prominent model system for exploring this neural computation. In Drosophila, the T4 cells of the medulla are directionally selective and necessary for ON motion behavioral responses. To examine the emergence of directional selectivity, we developed genetic driver lines for the neuron types with the most synapses ...

The class of microbalanced motion stimuli is thought to contain no systematic directional biases in motion energy. The fact that we can see motion in such stimuli implies that models of human motion perception based on Fourier decomposition need to be revised. The validity of one widely studied class of microbalanced stimuli, contrast modulated noise, has recently been questioned. It has been p...

Random dot cinematograms were used to probe motion perception in human observers ranging from 23 to 81 years of age. Stimuli were either broadband directional Noise, which produces no experience of global motion flow, or a narrower band directional Signal, which tended to produce experiences of coherent, global direction flow. On each trial, subjects rated their certainty that a Signal had been...

Transfer from perception to action is well documented, for instance in the form of observational learning. Transfer from action to perception, on the other hand, has not been researched. Such action-perception transfer (APT) is compatible with several learning theories and has been predicted within the framework of common coding of perceptual and motor events (Prinz, 1992, 1997). Our first expe...

Substantial evidence supports a relationship between gait perception and gait synthesis. Furthermore, passive mechanical systems demonstrate that the jointed leg systems of humans have innate oscillations that form a gait. These observations suggest that systems may perceive gaits by synchronizing an internal oscillating model to observed oscillations. We present such a system in this paper tha...

Soundscape is a sound environment that emphasizes the awareness of auditory perception and social or cultural understandings. The case of spatial perception is significant to soundscape. However, previous studies on the auditory spatial perception of the soundscape environment have been limited. Based on 21 native binaural-recorded soundscape samples and a set of auditory experiments for subjec...

Studies of the effect of affect on perception often show consistent directional effects of a person's affective state on perception. Unpleasant emotions have been associated with a "locally focused" style of stimulus evaluation, and positive emotions with a "globally focused" style. Typically, however, studies of affect and perception have not been conducted under the conditions of perceptual u...

due to their advantages, omni-directional mobile robots have found many applications especially in robotic soccer competitions. however, omni directional navigation system, omni-vision system and kicking mechanism in such mobile robots have not ever been combined. this situation brings the idea of a robot with no head direction into existence, a comprehensive omni directional mobile robot. such...