Abstract: Suicide is a leading cause of mortality world-wide, accounting for 1.4% of annual deaths. Traditional risk factors, self-report questionnaires, and clinical interviews have limited predictive validity for short-term suicide attempts. Studies using behavioral measures like the Suicide Implicit Association Test (S-IAT) to detect automatic and unconscious preference towards suicide related stimuli have demonstrated unique […]

Abstract: This paper introduces a wayfaring process, previously deployed at early stage product development projects, in the exploration, design and piloting of experiments. The case example being an interaction experiment in a ship bridge context, targeting stress and affective response. It included a simulation task as primary and a cognitive load task as secondary element […]

Abstract: Facial expression recognition has been a highly researched topic in the field of biometrics for decades. It has been used with the intent of both identifying specific individuals, and in understanding human relations and communication. Grouping these expressions into emotions is a subset of this research, which is still new. The focus of this […]

Mannequins are ubiquitous; this research investigates a specific element of mannequin style, namely, the presence or absence of a humanized head. Study 1 demonstrates that in physical stores, the presence of a humanized head enhances purchase intentions for the merchandise displayed on that mannequin. However, in online stores, mannequin styles with and without humanized heads […]

Abstract: This research investigated the effect of warm-up activities on cognitive states during concept generation. Psychophysiological tools including electroencephalography (EEG) and galvanic skin response (GSR) were used along with self-report measures (NASA TLX). Participants were divided into 3 test conditions: 1) no warm-up activity; 2) simple warm-up activities; 3) sketch-inhibition reducing activities. All participants did […]

This paper reports on a study of the design, development and evaluation of two teaching analytics dashboards that visualize students’ repertory grid exercise data. The technical objective of the dashboards is to support teachers to investigate and compare personal constructs and element ratings by students for given topics of study at the individual student, group […]

Abstract: In this paper, we present a novel work about predicting the facial expressions from physiological signals of the brain. The main contributions of this paper are twofold. a) Investigation of the predictability of facial micro-expressions from EEG. b) Identification of the relevant features to the prediction. To reach our objectives, an experiment was conducted […]

Abstract: This paper reports on a study of the design, development and evaluation of two teaching analytics dashboards that visualize students’ repertory grid exercise data. The technical objective of the dashboards is to support teachers to investigate and compare personal constructs and element ratings by students for given topics of study at the individual student, […]

Abstract: Research on the effectiveness of Advanced Learning Technologies (ALTs) on ubiquitous learning has suggested that students are often poor at self-regulating their learning (Azevedo, Taub, & Mudrick, 2015), and as a consequence, researchers have implemented Pedagogical Agents (PAs) to help foster students’ use of Cognitive, Affective, Metacognitive, and Motivational (CAMM) Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) processes […]

Abstract: This paper explores the relationship between emotional triggers and various types of (positive / negative) facially displayed emotions by a subject from custody, diagnosed with psychopathy. In this case study, FME were manually measured by using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS, Ekman, Friesen, Hager, 2002), which taxonomies human facial movements by their appearance. […]