Gaze is an effective function of a conversation. Different functions of gaze are described in literature over the world. During a route description the presence of gaze is also clearly visible. The behavior of gaze however seems different then in a normal conversation. Through a literature study and the analysis of route description movies, some clear observations are visible. The gaze behavior...

T paper studies the problem of purchasing and allocating copies of movies to multiple stores of a movie rental chain. A unique characteristic of this problem is the return process of rented movies. We formulate this problem for new movies as a newsvendor-like problem with multiple rental opportunities for each copy. We provide demand and return forecasts at the store-day level based on comparab...

Popular movies are spatiotemporal arrays of light and motion, but almost nothing is known about their distributions across whole films. Psychological research shows that the center of the screen is the most important region, but is light and motion most prominent there? I confirm that they are while exploring a sample of 160 movies released from 1935 to 2010. Concerning how light bathes the scr...