This study examined news readers’ memories of race-related facial features of an individual pictured in the news. Participants were presented with a series of news stories, including one of four different versions of the news story of interest: nonstereotyped, stereotyped/noncrime, nonviolent crime, violent crime. Each of the four versions contained a photograph of an individual who was the foc...

A new method is proposed for detecting fraudulent whiplash claims based on measurements of movement control of the neck. The method is noninvasive and inexpensive. The subjects track a slowly moving object on a computer screen with their head. The deviation between the measured and actual trajectory is quantified and used as input to an ensemble of support vector machine classifiers. The ensemb...

Paper Augmented Digital Documents (PADD), are digital documents that can be manipulated either on a computer screen or on paper. PADD, and the infrastructure supporting them, can be seen as a bridge between the digital and the paper worlds. As digital documents, PADD are easy to edit, distribute and archive; as paper documents, PADD are easy to navigate, annotate and well accepted in social set...

Innovative systems for user-computer interaction based on the user’s eye-gaze behavior have important implications for various applications. Examples include user navigation in large images, typical of astronomy or medicine, and user selection and viewing of multiple video streams. Typically a web environment is used for these applications. System latency must be negligible, while system obtrus...

For working with diagrams on a computer screen we need diagram editors, i.e., graphical editors specialized in the specific diagram language. In order to create such a diagram editor in a methodical way, a formal representation of each diagram and of the whole diagram language is required. This paper describes continued work on how to specify a wide range of diagram languages in terms of a hype...

Nowadays the concept of map becomes more and more associated in minds of people with display on a computer screen rather than something printed on paper. This applies not only to professionals in analysis of spatial information but even to ordinary public. Thus, route planners gradually substitute street atlases in planning journeys. Lots of people use numerous map-based services available in t...

User attention recognition in front of a monitor or a specific task is a crucial issue in many applications, ranging from e-learning to driving. Visual input is very important when extracting information regarding a user’s attention when recorded with a camera. However, intrusive equipment (special helmets, glasses equipped with cameras recording the eye movements, etc.) impose constraints on u...

Philosophers and scientists have long recognized how useful people find the temporal order of events as a guide to uncovering the causal relations among those events (e.g., Hume, 1739; Lagnado & Sloman 2004, 2006; White, 2006). In this paper we provide evidence for the converse, that beliefs about causation influence the perception of temporal order. Participants that learned the structure of c...

The multi-modal rock-paper-scissors game is an interactive computer game where the opponent of the human player is a virtual agent appearing on the computer screen. The game is similar to the game between humans, the communication takes place by the tools of image and sound processing.

In this paper, we describe a new methodology for tracking a user’s areas of interest on a computer screen. In contrast to costand analysis-intense eye-tracking studies, our approach operates on a software-only basis that requires no additional hardware. In an exploratory study, we compared our software-based tracker with hardware eye trackers with respect to the types of recorded data. Interest...