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Chapter and Conference Paper
In-Vehicle Information System Used in Complex and Low Traffic Situations: Impact on Driving Performance and Attitude
This paper describes a study where drivers’ responses to an in-vehicle information system were tested in high and low density traffic. There were 17 participants in a study that was run using a driving simulat...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Real-Time Gesture Tracking and Recognition System Based on Particle Filtering and Ada-Boosting Techniques
A real-time gesture tracking and recognition system based on particle filtering and Ada-Boosting techniques is presented in this paper. The particle filter, which is a flexible simulation-based method and suit...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Using Personas and Scenarios as an Interface Design Tool for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
When looking at the traditional way of conducting human factors research within the active safety area, focus often tends to be on drivers’ cognitive capacities like; situation awareness, workload and behaviou...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Kansei Design with Cross Cultural Perspectives
This study aimed to explore the cross cultural perspectives (including that of Taiwan, China, Japan and Korea) toward Kansei design using mobile phone as an example. Formal features, Kansei adjectives and the ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Listen! There Are Other Road Users Close to You – Improve the Traffic Awareness of Truck Drivers
As the amount of good transportation on road is increasing the accidents involving heavy trucks and other road users are also increasing. To make the truck driver aware of other road users close to the truck i...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Investigating the Use and Adoption of Self-service Technology in China
Self-service technology use and adoption can be seen as an evolutionary process. From a conceptual perspective, evolution delivers the growing advantages of self-service. From a practical perspective, evolutio...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Input-Parsing Algorithm Supporting Integration of Deictic Gesture in Natural Language Interface
Natural language interface (NLI) enables an efficient and effective interaction by allowing a user to submit a single phrase in natural language to the system. Free hand gestures can be added to an NLI to spec...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Exploiting Speech-Gesture Correlation in Multimodal Interaction
This paper introduces a study about deriving a set of quantitative relationships between speech and co-verbal gestures for improving multimodal input fusion. The initial phase of this study explores the prosod...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
History Based User Interest Modeling in WWW Access
WWW cache stores user’s browsing history, which contains large amount of information that may be accessed again but not yet added to user’s favorite page folder. The existed www pages can be used to abstract u...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Application of the Labeled Magnitude Scale in Kansei Research
This study intended to construct a labeled magnitude scale based on Kansei researches so that data with ratio-level can be retrieved easily and further extensive analysis can be conducted. In this study, scale...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Effects of Print-Storybooks and E-Storybooks with Reading Comprehension Strategies on Fifth Graders’ Reading Comprehension Ability
The goal of the study was to develop the instruction module of the e-storybooks reading comprehension in the elementary school and test the effect of the instruction module of the e-storybooks reading comprehe...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Design Improvement Requirements for the Upper Extremity Rehabilitation Devices in Taiwan
This study aims to survey the most frequently used upper extremity rehabilitation devices (UERD) in Taiwan and how well their design meet the practical requirements of rehabilitation therapy. A questionnaire w...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Listen! Somebody Is Walking towards Your Car (Introducing the Awareness-3D Sound System into the Driver to Increase the Pedestrian’s Safety)
Car accident statistics indicate that the pedestrians are the majority of the road traffic victims due to drivers’ lack of adequate visibility on the road. In this paper, the effects of human natural sounds in...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Empathic Approach in Assistive Technology to Provide Job Accommodations for Disabilities
When the psychologist Abraham Maslow first defined the five levels of human need in 1943, people started to realise how human needs should be fulfilled and many products have since been designed to fulfill the...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Designing Government Funded Religious E-Readers by Adopting User Experience Methods
The design concept of user experience has been popularized and widely accepted in Taiwan. Many companies have successfully transformed from OEM into ODM, and even created their own brand by establishing their ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Impact of an Actual Visit and Photograph Watching of an Exhibition on Visitor Viewing Experience
This research regarded the exhibition “Unfold a New Vision: To experience the surprises and awe in indigenous living aesthetics” as the subject to examine the impact of the format of the exhibition on the visi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Designing “Hometown Feeling” Into Products
Hometown is always full of childhood memories and energy for life. Hometown, as a subject for cultural and creative products can help novice designers express their feelings. Designers are bound to create uniq...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Research on Cognition Design in Chinese Opera Mask
Making up a facial symbolism is a very specific skill and makeup art in the Chinese opera. The performers use colorful paintings to paint variety of symbolism and line arts on their faces. These emphasize the ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Research on Knowledge Diffusion Based on Small World Network
Small world is a sort of network between regular and random network that has the feature of both shorter characteristic path length and higher clustering coefficient, which is an appropriate model for the rese...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Cognitive Behavior Modeling of Manual Rendezvous and Docking Based on the ACT-R Cognitive Architecture
Astronauts are exposed to numerous stressors during spaceflights, to reduce the faulty operations and improve human performance in manually controlled rendezvous and docking (manual RVD) of space vehicles, a m...