The importance of multi-sensory perception in constructing human landscape experiences has been increasingly emphasized contemporary urban life. aim this study is to explore aural-visual interaction attributes that may influence people’s perceived overall soundscape comfort green spaces (UGSs). To achieve this, a total 12 perceptive indicators were identified from the existing literature evalua...

The set up of practical methods for evaluation of web site aesthetics from the user perspective and the provision of useful feedback to designers is an open issue in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). The paper presents an evaluation study of aesthetic attributes of two web sites from the user perspective and compares the results to the design team. The study initially involved the formulation o...

Our objective is to develop a computational model to predict visual attention behavior for an embodied conversational agent. During interpersonal interaction, gaze provides signal feedback and directs conversation flow. Simultaneously, in a dynamic environment, gaze also directs attention to peripheral movements. An embodied conversational agent should therefore employ social gaze not only for ...

In the CommRob project we are investigating Robot Assisted Shopping. We are considering the effects on usability when allowing for mixed-initiative dialogue. It is noted that when adding a robotic assistant to a scenario that was previously involving only one agent, two new tasks are created: collaborative interaction, and learning an interface. Evaluation of mixed-initiative dialogue becomes c...

While the difficulties of defining meat quality are highlighted, the importance of measuring quality attributes is recognised, However, it is suggested that emphasis be given during the immediate future to the current research programmes aimed at the design and evaluation of carcase classification and information services. Should the pilot runs of the services demonstrate that the likely costs ...

This study employed content analysis to investigate the attributes of comments on official movie weblogs (blogs), and the possible influences of these attributes on the consumers or companies of the blog. The analysis of 1500 comments on official movie blogs indicated that subjective comments allow the blog companies to recognize consumer attitudes toward movies. Emotional comments positively i...

The work of integrating the components with each other and with the rest of the system is the most important part of the component-based development process. The interaction among components in an assembly is essential to the overall quality of the system. When integrating components into a system assembly, it would be useful to predict how the quality attributes for the whole system will be. I...

The emergence of powerful, full-featured and small formfactor mobile devices enables rich services to be offered to it’s users. As the mobile user interacts with multiple administrative domains, he acquires various attributes. In such dynamic usage scenarios, attributes from one domain are interpreted and used in another domain. This motivates the need for dynamic authorization at the time of i...