Games can be won or lost, and the outcome of the game often determines our facial expression. Thus, game players’ facial expression possibly provides information about the game outcome. The connection between such nonverbal cues and accuracy at which game outcome could be deduced is investigated in a perception experiment. Facial expressions of Chinese and Dutch children playing a game, either ...

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We examine the role of gender in legal decision making by applying critical mass theory to the U.S. federal district courts. We analyze whether behavioral differences manifest themselves in the decision-making proclivities of male and female judges, contingent on the existence of a critical mass of female judges at a court point (i.e., each city in which a district court is located). Our result...

This research dealt with the transformations of Iranian-Saudi relations, which witnessed great tension during recent period, as factors those tensions were reviewed and analyzed in detail, this focused on three main axes. The first axis reasons that pushed Saudi-Iranian relations to rapprochement includes recognition Iranian reality a joint dialogue between two parties. second touched led strai...

As digital evidence grows in both volume and importance in criminal and civil courts, judges need to fairly and justly evaluate the merits of the offered evidence. To do so, judges need a general understanding of the underlying technologies and applications from which digital evidence is derived. Due to the relative newness of the computer forensics field, there have been few studies on the use...

This study investigated facial features to detect the affective states (or emotions) that accompany deep-level learning of conceptual material. Videos of the participants’ faces were captured while they interacted with AutoTutor on computer literacy topics. After the tutoring session, the affective states (boredom, confusion, delight, flow, frustration, and surprise) of the student were identif...

In the popular FOX TV reality show, American Idol, the judges, who are presumably experts in evaluating singing effort, have no voting power when the field is narrowed to the top 24 contestants. It is only the votes of viewers that count. In the 2007 season of the show, one of the judges, Simon Cowell, threatened to quit the show if a contestant, Sanjaya Malakar, who was clearly a low-ability c...

We investigated the possibility of detecting affect from natural language dialogue in an attempt to endow an intelligent tutoring system, AutoTutor, with the ability to incorporate the learner’s affect into its pedagogical strategies. Training and validation data were collected in a study in which college students completed a learning session with AutoTutor and subsequently affective states of ...