Publications

Abstract Sustainability concerns are increasingly shaping food policies, yet the widespread adoption of sustainable food products remains limited. Among the strategies adopted to address environmental challenges in the food system, upcycled foods represent a promising solution. However, despite their potential environmental benefits, upcycled foods still face substantial resistance at the consumer level. This is due […]

Phonological awareness, knowledge of grapheme-phoneme correspondences, working memory, and broader linguistic factors are well-established predictors of the acquisition of foundational reading skills in students with and without intellectual disabilities. However, empirical evidence remains limited regarding the specific factors that contribute to literacy learning difficulties in children with intellectual disabilities who rely on augmentative and alternative […]

The study examines how centrally placed textual overlays in tourism video advertising influence perception of scenic spots, focusing on how captions redirect visual attention away from background scenery that should convey destination image and emotional appeal. Eye-tracking data from 20 university students were collected while they viewed a 30-second tourism video with centrally positioned captions. […]

Perspective-taking, a key social cognition process, plays a significant role in shaping consumer behavior. Despite its relevance, existing research has largely focused on its visuo-spatial dimensions, with little attention given to its cognitive and emotional aspects, especially in the context of communication content perception, where no established electroencephalography (EEG) measures have assessed these components. In […]

With the rise of online retailing, consumers increasingly make purchase decisions based on small, thumbnail-sized product images, often displayed in grid formats. This shift introduces new challenges for packaging design, particularly for fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG), because size, shape, and material of the packaging—physical cues that in-store consumers use to quickly identify the products they […]

Driver emotion significantly impacts traffic safety, driving behavior, and driving experience, often being directly influenced by different driving scenarios. To explore this relationship, we present EmoRoad, a multimodal dataset capturing emotional, physiological, and behavioral responses under diverse driving scenarios. These scenarios are defined by three dimensions, each with two conditions: road scenario (urban/suburban), traffic density […]

Mathematics anxiety (MA) is reliably associated with lower achievement, but how it shapes engagement during learner interaction with coordinated representations in digital environments is less known. This study examined MA-related differences in emotional and cognitive engagement dynamics while learning with siMMath, an interactive simulation that integrates dynamic manipulatives with explanatory text to support proportional reasoning […]

In this paper, we investigate whether, and to what extent, UK newspapers exhibited image-based bias in their portrayal of politicians during the 2016 Brexit referendum. We use computer vision and machine learning techniques to first, identify the faces of politicians and assess the emotional content conveyed through their expressions and second, to measure the contextual […]

Introduction: Nature exposure has been associated with improvements in physiological, emotional, and cognitive functioning. However, workplace research has primarily focused on visual access to nature, despite nature being inherently a multisensory experience. Drawing on Attention Restoration Theory (ART), Stress Reduction Theory (SRT), and emerging work on olfactory environments ("smellscapes"), this study examines how visual and […]

Price–quantity graphs are often used to visualize the supply-demand interplay.Interacting with dynamic graphs could increase interest in their content and thusenhance the learning process. Using eye tracking, the authors investigated howeconomic education students learned with static and dynamic graphs by analyzing their gaze behavior in a laboratory setting as they solved single-choicelearning tasks involving price–quantity […]