The smaller of two equally weighted objects is judged to be heavier when lifted (size-weight illusion [SWI]). In contrast, fingertip forces show an initial size effect but adapt to the true object weights within a few trials. The aim of this study was to investigate possible contributions of the cerebellum to SWI, force anticipation, and adaptation based on object size and weight. Eighteen part...

In recent years, research efforts seeking to provide more natural, human-centered means of interacting with computers have gained growing interest. A particularly important direction is that of perceptive user interfaces, where the computer is endowed with perceptive capabilities that allow it to acquire both implicit and explicit information about the user and the environment. Vision has the p...

This article presents a vision of the near future in which computer interaction is characterized by natural face-toface conversations with lifelike characters that speak, emote and gesture. These animated agents will converse with people much like people converse effectively with assistants in a variety of focused applications. Despite the research advances required to realize this vision, and ...

To control the latent social risk of disease, the government usually spreads accurate information and attempts to improve the public's attitude toward adopting prevention. However, these methods with the Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices (KAP) model do not always work. Therefore, we used the theory of planned behavior (TPB) to understand dog owners' behavior and distinguished the knowledge ef...

EEG mu rhythms (8-13 Hz) recorded at fronto-central electrodes are generally considered as markers of motor cortical activity in humans, because they are modulated when participants perform an action, when they observe another's action or even when they imagine performing an action. In this study, we analyzed the time-frequency (TF) modulation of mu rhythms while participants read action langua...

AIM Assessing social competence is important for clinical and preventive interventions of depression. The aim of the present paper was to examine the factor structure of the Japanese Interpersonal Competence Scale (JICS). METHODS Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis was performed on the survey responses of 730 participants. Simultaneous multigroup analyses were conducted to confirm fa...

This thesis researches the analysis and the formalised metadata mapping of moving data. Therefore a new syntagma for structuring document subparts in movies is being developed. The dissertation focuses on syntagmata which for the first time consider subparts of a document below the shot level. Until now, a set of shots could only be syntagmatically classified, if they were spatially connected. ...

This paper presents a vehicle occlusion identification system based on the perceptive characters of a roadway. To tracking the vehicles, two stages are devised, initial parameter setting stage and occlusion handling stage. In the initial stage, a background extracting method is adopted to obtain the first clean background. Then, a road detection algorithm is used for finding the vanishing point...