Just as physical appearance affects social influence in human communication, it may also affect the processing of advice conveyed through avatars, computer-animated characters, and other human-like interfaces. Although the most persuasive computer interfaces are often the most human-like, they have been predicted to incur the greatest risk of falling into the uncanny valley, the loss of empathy...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Image quality and diagnostic reliability of T2-weighted MR images of the cervical spine are often impaired by several kinds of artifacts, even in cooperative patients. The aim of this study was to evaluate if BLADE sequences might solve these problems in a routine patient collective. MATERIALS AND METHODS TSE and BLADE sequences were compared in 60 patients for T2-weigh...

Chemical patterns are essential for various fields of chemical, chemoinformatic and pharmaceutical applications. So far, representations of chemical patterns are limited to linear molecular pattern languages like SMARTS [1]. As these languages are designed for computational efficiency, they are often hardly human readable. In order to improve the usability of chemical patterns for scientists wi...

Investigation into the sequence structure of the genetic code by means of an informatic approach is a real success story. The features of human language are also the object of investigation within the realm of formal language theories. They focus on the common rules of a universal grammar that lies behind all languages and determine generation of syntactic structures. This universal grammar is ...

Two visual world eye-tracking studies investigated the effect of emotions and actions on sentence processing. Positively emotionally valenced German non-canonical object-verb-subject (OVS) sentences were paired with a scene depicting three characters (agent-patient-distractor) as either performing the action described by the sentence, or not performing any actions. These scene-sentence pairs we...

Cross-depiction is the problem of identifying the same object even when it is depicted in a variety of manners. This is a common problem in handwritten historical documents image analysis, for instance when the same letter or motif is depicted in several different ways. It is a simple task for humans yet conventional heuristic computer vision methods struggle to cope with it. In this paper we a...

Visualization exploration is the process of extracting insight from data via interaction with visual depictions of that data. Visualization exploration is more than presentation; the interaction with both the data and its depiction is as important as the data and depiction itself. Previous visualization research has focused on the generation of visualizations— the depiction—and not on the explo...