Publications

Tämä tutkielma selvittää, millaisiin tekstin elementteihin lukija kiinnittää huomiota lukiessaan, kun lukemisen päämääränä on tekstin muistaminen ja sen pohjalta kysymyksiin vastaaminen, ja onko odotetulla kysymysformaatilla vaikutusta lukustrategiaan. Lukemiseen vaikuttavat useat osatekijät, kuten lukijoiden taito ohjata omaa ymmärrystään, omatut pohjatiedot ja lukijan päämäärät. Taitavat lukijat keskittyvät tärkeään asiaan, ja jättävät epäolennaisen vähemmälle huomiolle. Kirjoittaja voi kuitenkin […]

Abstract This study explores how biophilic design cues in virtual reality (VR) interfaces influence users’ visual attention, restorative experience, and mental imagery. Using a between-subjects experimental design, a VR-based eye-tracking experiment was conducted in immersive retail environments featuring either direct biophilic design (authentic natural elements) or indirect biophilic design (nature-inspired graphics). We designated two areas […]

Instagram's popular recipe videos showcase prominent cues, like taste and convenience, persuading viewers – particularly emerging adults (18-25) – to make the recipes. While hedonic taste cues trigger automatic appetitive responses, the processing of utilitarian convenience cues remains unclear. A within-subjects repeated-measures experiment with Instagram dessert recipe videos emphasizing taste , convenience , or both […]

This thesis explores how spatial design in video game levels can be used to generate player tension and sustain fear, in the absence of enemies or direct threats. For the spatial design, the researcher focused on impossible or abnormal environmental structures, such as looping corridors, non-Euclidean layouts, and disorienting transitions, and how they can evoke […]

Behavioral accounting examines how individuals interpret accounting information and how cognitive and emotional factors affect decision-making. An experiment with 43 participants, including accounting experts and students, was conducted to examine differences in the evaluation of financial data. Eyetracking, facial expression analysis, and biosensors were used to record visual attention and emotional responses during accounting tasks. […]

Purpose Social participation among wheelchair users depends heavily on mobility. While assistive navigation technologies like Google Maps have reshaped urban mobility, they often overlook the specific needs of wheelchair users. This study aimed to explore how wheelchair users interact with urban environments while using an assistive navigation technology and find gaps in route instructions, in […]

The study focuses on how young viewers visually process short-form videos on TikTok and how the distribution of attention between the main image and the platform interface changes in the process. In an exploratory laboratory experiment, 16 participants watched ten videos of four different types of content (lifestyle, educational content, fastpaced potentially risky videos, multi-screen […]

The purpose of this quantitative, predictive correlational study was to determine to what extent facial action units brow raise, lip press, lip suck, and mouth open and heart rate variability predict sustained attention and how accurately heart rate variability predicts the same facial action units in children ages 5 to 7 in kindergarten, first, and […]

Abstract Facial expression has been proposed as a key mechanism in forming and maintaining social relationships. Humans have particularly expressive faces, but direct evidence linking individual level expressivity to group-level social bonding is limited. Here we examined whether spontaneous facial expressivity impacts social popularity during initial group formation. Participants (72 groups, N = 256) engaged […]

En un estudio piloto de seguimiento ocular móvil in situ se evaluó la atención visual hacia el Palacio Episcopal de Gaudí (Astorga). Veintiocho participantes observaron libremente la capilla (n = 14) o la fachada principal (n = 14) durante 15 segundos. Se delimitaron las áreas de interés (AOI) (18 en la capilla; 15 en la […]