Previous research has shown that trait concepts and stereotype become active automatically in the presence of relevant behavior or stereotyped-group features. Through the use of the same priming procedures as in previous impression formation research, Experiment 1 showed that participants whose concept of rudeness was printed interrupted the experimenter more quickly and frequently than did par...

Dynamic gait evaluation allows examination of the intrinsic and extrinsic factors affecting an individual's ability to walk or run. This article identifies the gait cycle so that common terminology can be used to discuss and compare walking and running. The range of motion, or kinematics, used during gait can be seen subjectively in the hallway of the clinic but can be further objectified in a ...

Title: Environmental Correlates of Efficiency and Safety in Emergency Departments Funds: Academy of Architecture for Health Foundation (AAHF) Research Grant and Herman Miller Grant Period: January 2010 to October 2012 Collaborators: Herman Miller, Synurgy Healthcare Solutions Location: Four emergency departments in large US hospitals Findings: 16 domains of physical design decisions influence s...

This study investigated the interaction between remembered landmark and path integration strategies for estimating current location when walking in an environment without vision. We asked whether observers navigating without vision only rely on path integration information to judge their location, or whether remembered landmarks also influence judgments. Participants estimated their location in...

Networks of cameras such as building security systems can be a source of localization information for a mobile robot assuming a map of camera locations as well as calibration information for each camera is available. This thesis describes an automated system to acquire such information. A fully automated camera calibration system uses fiducial markers and a mobile robot in order to drastically ...

Relative size judgments were collected for two objects at 30.5 m and 23.8 from the observer in order to assess how performance depends on the relationship between the size of the objects and the eye level of the observer. In three experiments in an indoor hallway and in one experiment outdoors, accuracy was higher for objects in the neighborhood of eye level. We consider these results in the li...

This paper investigates the linear degeneracies of projective structure estimation from line features across three views. We show that the rank of the linear system of equations for recovering the trilinear tensor of three views reduces to 23 (instead of 26) when the scene is a Linear Line Complex (a set of lines in space intersecting at a common line). The LLC situation is only linearly degene...

Genetic Programming was used to create the vision subsystem of a reactive obstacle avoidance system for an autonomous mobile robot. The representation of algorithms was specifically chosen to capture the spirit of existing, hand written vision algorithms. Traditional computer vision operators such as Sobel gradient magnitude, median filters and the Moravec interest operator were combined arbitr...

A simple neural model for electromagnetic field prediction in indoor environment was created based on field strength measurements at 2.4 GHz, conducted at University of Split, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture (FESB Split). Vertical rod antenna (omnidirectional in the horizontal plane) was placed in a faculty hallway and used as the electromagnetic...

I ask what a small set of modification data requires clausal event semantics. Classic Davidsonian semantics posits that modifiers like "in the hallway" express properties events, and expects iterations such will simply contribute additional conjuncts at logical form. The consider challenges this view, others cast in spirit, least so long as we hope to preserve an important plausible semantic pr...