In this paper we present a concept for augmented reality entertainment, called AR Karaoke, where users perform their favorite dramatic scenes with virtual actors. AR Karaoke is the acting equivalent of traditional karaoke, where the goal is to facilitate an acting experience for the user that is entertaining for both the user and audience. Prototype implementations were created to evaluate vari...

Choices in music express our taste and personality. Different people have different collections of favorite songs. The explosive growth of digital media makes it easier to access any songs we want. Consequently, finding the songs best fit to our tastes becomes more challenging. Existing solutions record user patterns of listening to music, then make recommendation lists for users. By applying i...

We investigate how the need for evermore programming languages arises, and how to fulfill this need. We show how the gap between building a library using an existing language and constructing a completely new language narrows. In doing so we discuss a few of the past and current research results from the Software Technology group at Utrecht University.

Activity is associated with health among older adults yet older adults' favorite activities have rarely been investigated. We analyzed the community dwelling, cognitively-intact sample of NHATS, a nationally representative sample of adults ≥ 65, who had named their favorite activities (N = 5247). Logistic regression models estimated the odds of choosing a physical activity controlling for demog...

Explaining the Favorite-Longshot Bias: Is it Risk-Love or Misperceptions? The favorite-longshot bias describes the longstanding empirical regularity that betting odds provide biased estimates of the probability of a horse winning – longshots are overbet, while favorites are underbet. Neoclassical explanations of this phenomenon focus on rational gamblers who overbet longshots due to risk-love. ...

In this paper it is shown that the combination of mental accounting and loss aversion can fundamentally changes people’s way of evaluating risky alternatives. The observation is applied in a market setting: Parimutuel betting markets. In parimutuel betting markets it has been found that for horses with lowest odds (favorites), market estimates of winning probabilities are smaller than objective...

This paper studies contests where players have the ßexibility to add to their previous efforts after observing their rivals’ most recent effort in an intermediate stage. It is found that (1) contrary to previous Þndings, the Stackelberg outcome where the underdog leads and the favorite follows cannot be an equilibrium. (2) There are multiple subgame perfect equilibria all occuring on the underd...

OBJECTIVE This study examined the effect of classical music and favorite music on the repetitive disruptive vocalizations of long-term-care facility (LTCF) residents with dementia of the Alzheimer's type (DAT). METHOD Three subjects diagnosed with DAT who had a history of repetitive disruptive vocalizations were selected for the study. Three single-subject withdrawal designs (ABA, ACA, and AB...

Children in the 2nd through 6th grade wrote reports about their favorite educational and informational television programs, and the reports were examined for the presence of gender stereotypes. Children’s written reports contained more male than female characters, more male than female pronouns, and more masculine than feminine behaviors. Effects were most pronounced for boys. Over time, preado...