The regulatory framework of the audiovisual sector in Spain can be defined as huge, disperse, and obsolete. The first part of this paper provides an overview of the major challenges of the Spanish audiovisual sector as a result of the convergence of platforms, services and operators. In the second part, we will present an example of self-regulation through the future Code of Best Professional P...

Background and significance: Virtual resources have become a popular way to enhance lecture and laboratory instruction; however, there is no experimental data assessing their effectiveness in optometry. This study evaluated the effects of different interactive strategies on student motivation and learning outcomes. Methods: Sixty-five optometry students were assigned to control and intervention...

The Perceptual Computing Section of the Media Laboratory is working to make computers that understand people, and can work with them in the manner of an attentive human-like assistant. To this end we have built a series of interactive of-ce spaces that are used as real-time experimental testbeds. These spaces are instrumented with cameras and microphones, and perform audiovisual interpretation ...

This paper describes two experiments on the role of audiovisual prosody for signalling and detecting meta-cognitive information in question answering. The Wrst study consists of an experiment, in which participants are asked factual questions in a conversational setting, while they are being Wlmed. Statistical analyses bring to light that the speakers’ Feeling of Knowing (FOK) is cued by a numb...

Although pitch is a fundamental attribute of auditory perception, substantial individual differences exist in our ability to perceive differences in pitch. Little is known about how these individual differences in the auditory modality might affect crossmodal processes such as audiovisual perception. In this study, we asked whether individual differences in pitch perception might affect audiovi...

The emotional response to synchronous instances between musical and visual elements within the cinematic experience awaits thorough empirical evaluation. Film composition is defined here as a genre of stereotypes, whose methodologies are not feasibly subject to redevelopment. As consequence, the research focuses on improving the enculturated functions of film music. Hypothesising that an increa...

As Web-based courses using videos have become popular in recent years, the issue of managing audiovisual aids has become noteworthy. The contents of audiovisual aids may include a lecture, an interview, a featurette, an experiment, etc. The audiovisual aids of Web-based courses are transformed into the streaming format that can make the quality of Internetbased videos acceptable to learners usi...

OBJECTIVE To examine the effectiveness of Audiovisual (AV) interventions at reducing preoperative anxiety and its associated outcomes in children undergoing elective surgery. METHODS A systematic review of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and nonrandomized studies where the primary outcome was children's preoperative anxiety was conducted. Secondary outcomes included postoperative pain, be...

www.aana.com/aanajournal.aspx This article explores the application of Paivio’s Dual Coding Theory (DCT) as a scientifically sound rationale for the effects of multimedia learning in programs of nurse anesthesia. We explore and highlight this theory as a practical infrastructure for programs that work with dispersed students (ie, distance education models). Exploring the work of Paivio and othe...

Both auditory and visual information plays an important role for audiovisual speech perception during face-to-face communication. Several behavioral studies have shown that native English speakers and native Japanese speakers behaved differently in audiovisual speech perception. We hypothesized that there would be differences in neural processing between native English speakers and native Japan...