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User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction
Ana Almeida
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Some Evidences of the Impact of Environment’s Design Features in Routes Selection in Virtual Environments
This paper reports results from a research project investigating users’ navigation in a Virtual Environment (VE), using immersive Virtual Reality. The experiment was conducted to study the extent that certain ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Ergonomics Aspects in Operators of the Electric Power Control and Operation Centers
The activity of the operator of the electrical power control centers is the prevention of incidents and errors that disrupt the operation of the electrical system. They have to do it by mobilizing knowledge an...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Methodological Framework for Control Centres Evaluation and Optimization
Workers in control centers often pay attention to a large amount of information from several sources and must be able to identify, at all times, the system state to, in an emergency, take correct decisions. In...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Contact Activity Visualization for Seniors
Over the years, people raise their children and watch them as they make their adult lives away from home. Because of that, seniors lose contact and intimacy with their loved ones, as physical presence isn’t as...
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Development of a Virtual Environment for Safety Warnings Behavior Compliance Evaluation
The effectiveness of safety warnings is measured by user’s behavior compliance. Although compliance is an important component in determining the success of a warning, its study becomes difficult to be develope...
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Compliance with Static vs. Dynamic Warnings in Workplaces such as Warehouses: A Study Using Virtual Reality
The static nature of traditional warnings cannot always capture the user’s attention. The effectiveness of a warning refers to the way in which it prompts the user to engage in safe behavior. It is known that ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Virtual Reality Self Induced Cybersickness: An Exploratory Study
Virtual reality (VR) has been used successfully in several studies, namely in the area of safety warnings design. However, regarding cybersickness, this technology it is not innocuous. We report results concer...
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Evaluation of Behavioral Compliance with Safety Warnings at Different Levels of Cognitive Load in Warehouses
This study aims to evaluate the behavioral compliance with dynamic safety warnings, in different levels of cognitive load in warehouses. Participated in the study forty subjects between the ages of 17 and 47. ...
