Previous studies in adults have revealed that attentional distraction modulates the late positive potential (LPP) during emotion regulation. To determine whether early visual components reflect developmental changes in attentional distraction during adolescence, we collected event-related potentials from 20 young adolescents, 18 older adolescents, and 18 young adults as they performed a distrac...

The goal of the SIMSI (Safe In-vehicle Multimodal Speech Interaction) project is threefold. Firstly, to integrate a dialogue system for menu-based dialogue with a GUI-driven in-vehicle infotainment system. Secondly, to further improve the integrated system with respect to driver distraction, thus making the system safer to use while driving. Thirdly, to verify that the resulting system decrease...

In this paper, we introduce a novel problem of audio-visual event localization in unconstrained videos. We define an audio-visual event as an event that is both visible and audible in a video segment. We collect an Audio-Visual Event (AVE) dataset to systemically investigate three temporal localization tasks: supervised and weakly-supervised audio-visual event localization, and cross-modality l...

Two experiments examined how sensory acuity affects age differences in susceptibility to interference in the reading-with-distraction task. In both experiments, older and younger adults read texts in an italic font and were required to ignore distractor words in an upright font. Experiment 1 examined whether the age-related increase in distractibility can be simulated in younger adults by reduc...

• Pedestrian distraction by mobile devices and headsets is a growing issue. Current signage at intersections designed for attentive pedestrians. Illuminated in-ground lights were tested with distracted non-distracted Participants detected the when distracted. Environment scanning return to levels lights. Introduction: pedestrians who are looking ahead. Such may not be sufficient smartphones. LE...

For past several decades, visual speech signal processing has been an attractive research topic for overcoming certain audio-only recognition problems. In recent years, there have been many automatic speech-reading systems proposed that combine audio and visual speech features. For all such systems, the objective of these audio-visual speech recognizers is to improve recognition accuracy, parti...

Distraction is a common method of pain control that is often found to be effective. However, it is still largely unexplored which components of distraction are responsible for its effects. This study investigated the role of the spatial location of task-relevant stimuli on the effectiveness of distraction. Two experiments were performed in which the spatial location of visual stimuli during noc...