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Journal articles on the topic "Relationships; Human perception"
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Liu, Changjiang, and Qiuping Wang. "Simulating Human Visual Perception in Tunnel Portals." Sustainability 13, no. 7 (March 27, 2021): 3741. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13073741.
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To study the characteristics of light and dark adaptation in tunnel portals, and to determine the influencing factors in light–dark vision adaptation, basic tunnel lighting and linear design data were obtained. In this study, we used a light-shielded tent to simulate the dark environment of a tunnel, observe the driver recognition time for target objects during the light–dark adaptation process, and analyze the light–dark adaptation time of human vision. Based on the experimental data, we examined the relationships between age, gender, illuminance, and light and dark adaptation times, and established a model for these relationships. The experimental results show that the dark adaptation time is generally longer than the light adaptation time. The dark adaptation time is positively related to age and exhibits a cubic relationship. There is no significant correlation between the light adaptation time and age, but the overall trend is for the light adaptation time to gradually increase with increasing age. There is no correlation between gender and light and dark adaptation times, but there is a notable correlation between light and dark adaptation times and illuminance. When the illuminance ranges from 11,000 to 13,000 lux, the light and dark adaptation times are the longest.
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González-Ramírez, Mónica Teresa, and René Landero-Hernández. "Pet–Human Relationships: Dogs versus Cats." Animals 11, no. 9 (September 20, 2021): 2745. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani11092745.
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The study of human–animal interactions has increased, focusing on the dog–owner relationship, leaving a lag in research on the cat–owner relationship and practically a total absence of studies that compare the dog–owner relationship with the cat-owner relationship. Therefore, the objective of the present study was to make this comparison based on the perception of people living with both dogs and cats, considering interaction, emotional closeness, and perceived cost of the relationship. A total of 132 residents in Mexico participated. To evaluate the pet–human relationship, the dog and cat versions of the Monash dog owner relationship scale were used, thus obtaining comparable scores for the relationship with dogs and cats. Based on what the owners reported, significant differences were found. Relationships with cats were better than relationships with dogs, a finding that was confirmed when comparing male dogs and cats and when comparing female dogs and cats. It was concluded that relationships with cats are better because the perceived cost of such a relationship is lower. However, emotional closeness is greater with dogs than with cats.
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Welsh, Elizabeth Torney, and Erica W. Diehn. "Mentoring and gender: perception is not reality." Career Development International 23, no. 4 (August 13, 2018): 346–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/cdi-11-2017-0198.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore whether the disconnect between mentoring theory, which posits that women receive less workplace mentoring than men, and empirical results, which have found that women report equivalent or more mentoring received than men, is due to differences in perception rather than in actual mentoring provided. Design/methodology/approach Using an MTurk sample of working adults (n=251), a 2 (protégé/participant gender: male/female) × 2 (mentor gender: male/female) × 3 (amount of mentoring: high/medium/low) between-subjects experimental design was tested. This approach held relationship characteristics constant, allowing for an examination of the role of gender in mentoring perceptions. Findings Gender was associated with the way protégés viewed a mentoring relationship and their reports of mentoring received. When identical relationships were described, women were more likely than men to identify a senior colleague as a mentor, and protégés in heterogeneous gender mentoring relationships reported more mentoring received than those in homogeneous gender relationships. Research limitations/implications When examining mentoring, perceptual differences need to be considered before drawing conclusions. Practical implications This study calls into question findings of equivalent mentoring – refocusing attention on the importance of informal mentoring for improving women’s workplace outcomes. Originality/value Using an experimental design that holds relationship characteristics constant, this study is able to examine whether perceptions of mentoring are affected by gender. No study has previously done so, and results from the current study help to explain why there has been a disconnect between theory and empirical results.
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Moscoso, Paola, Mika Peck, and Alice Eldridge. "Emotional associations with soundscape reflect human-environment relationships." Journal of Ecoacoustics 2, no. 1 (January 10, 2018): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.22261/jea.ylfj6q.
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In line with the development of socio-ecological perspectives in conservation science, there is increasing interest in the role of soundscape perception in understanding human-environment interactions; the impact of natural soundscapes on human wellbeing is also increasingly recognized. However, research to date has focused on preferences and attitudes to western, urban locations. This study investigated individual emotional associations with local soundscape for three social groups living in areas with distinct degrees of urbanization, from pristine forest and pre-urban landscapes in Ecuador, to urban environments in UK and USA. Participants described sounds that they associated with a range of emotions, both positive and negative, which were categorized according to an adapted version of Schafer’s sound classification scheme. Analyses included a description of the sound types occurring in each environment, an evaluation of the associations between sound types and emotions across social groups, and the elaboration of a soundscape perception map. Statistical analyses revealed that the distribution of sound types differed between groups, reflecting essential traits of each soundscape, and tracing the gradient of urbanization. However, some associations were universal: Natural Sounds were primarily associated with positive emotions, whereas Mechanical and Industrial Sounds were linked to negative emotions. Within non-urban environments, natural sounds were associated with a much wider range of emotions. Our analyses suggest that Natural Sounds could be considered as valuable natural resources that promotes human wellbeing. Special attention is required within these endangered forest locations, which should be classified as a “threatened soundscapes,” as well as “threatened ecosystems,” as we begin to understand the role of soundscape for the wellbeing of the local communities. The methodology presented in this article offers a fast, cheap tool for identifying reactions towards landscape modification and identifying sounds of social relevance. The potential contribution of soundscape perception within the current conservation approaches is discussed.
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Ren, Ting, Ruolian Fang, and Zhen Yang. "The impact of pay-for-performance perception and pay level satisfaction on employee work attitudes and extra-role behaviors." Journal of Chinese Human Resource Management 8, no. 2 (October 9, 2017): 94–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jchrm-06-2015-0012.
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Purpose This paper aims to investigate the impact of pay-for-performance (PFP) perception and pay level satisfaction on work attitudes (job satisfaction, turnover intention and affective commitment) and extra-role behaviors (discretionary effort and interpersonal helping), and further, how three aspects of conditional factors – intrinsic motivation, leader–member exchange (LMX) and perceived organizational support (POS) – moderate the main-effect relationships. Design/methodology/approach The study was conducted at a Chinese private-owned company in the beauty industry, and a survey was conducted with the frontline employees in each office, asking information about their perceptions and attitudes toward the PFP scheme implemented in the company, work attitudes and performance, individual characteristics and their perceptions of group and organizational characteristics. Findings Results show that PFP perception and pay level satisfaction are significant predictors of work attitudes and extra-role behaviors. Further, depending on the specific work outcome examined, the three conditioning factors are found to strengthen the hypothesized main-effect relationships. The findings of the study have important theoretical and practical implications for the implementation of PFP schemes in organizations. Originality/value The findings contribute to the scholarship on PFP schemes in two ways. First, the findings show that PFP perception and pay level satisfaction are important for understanding employee work attitudes and extra-role behaviors. Second, the investigation of the moderating roles that intrinsic motivation, LMX and POS play in the relationships of PFP perception and pay level satisfaction with the work outcomes provides evidence to the limited understanding about the conditions that may strengthen or weaken the effectiveness of PFP schemes.
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Wang, Yingxu, Shushma Patel, and Dilip Patel. "The Cognitive Process and Formal Models of Human Attentions." International Journal of Software Science and Computational Intelligence 5, no. 1 (January 2013): 32–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijssci.2013010103.
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Attention is a complex mental function of humans in order to capture and serve the basic senses of vision, hearing, touch, smell, and taste, as well as internal motivations and perceptions. This paper presents a formal model and a cognitive process for rigorously explaining human attentions. Cognitive foundations of attentions and their relationships with consciousness and other perception processes are explored. The closed loop of attentions is identified that encompasses event capture and behavior reaction. Events for attention are classified into the categories of external stimuli and internal motivations. Behaviors as corresponding responses of attentions encompass recurrent, temporary, and reflex actions. Mathematical models of attentions are created as a foundation for rigorously describing the cognitive process of attentions in denotational mathematics. A wide range of applications of the unified attention model are identified in cognitive informatics, cognitive computing, and computational intelligence toward the mimic and simulation of human attention and perception in cognitive computers, cognitive robotics, and cognitive systems.
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Berthon, P. R., L. F. Pitt, and M. H. Morris. "External And Internal Customer Managers: Differences In Perception And Decision-Making In The Marketing And Human Resource Dyad." Journal of Applied Business Research (JABR) 12, no. 1 (September 12, 2011): 77. http://dx.doi.org/10.19030/jabr.v12i1.5840.
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Interfunctional relations and their implications for organizational effectiveness is increasingly becoming a major strategic issue. Marketing and human resources (HR) are concerned with building relationships; marketing is the function charged with managing relationships with external customer, whilst HR is the function obligated to the task of managing relationships internally. Indeed, there seems to have been a certain crossover between these functions as issues such as internal marketing (cf. George 1990) and the marketing of the HR function (cf. Price 1993) have received attention of late. This article explores the Marketing-HR dyad from the perspective of problem perception. How a problem is perceived determines to a substantial degree the subsequent course of problem solving action. The concept of decision-making context is introduced as the ratio of problem types encountered. To differentiate managers on an individual level the construct of perception type is expounded. The study finds significant differences in perceptions between the marketing and HR, and between different perception types. It is argued that a better understanding of the differences in the decision-making processes between key functions is essential if the hope of enhancing organizational effectiveness through inter-functional cooperation is not to remain an elusive Shangri-La.
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Neyraud, Eric, Olivier Palicki, Camille Schwartz, Sophie Nicklaus, and Gilles Feron. "Variability of human saliva composition: Possible relationships with fat perception and liking." Archives of Oral Biology 57, no. 5 (May 2012): 556–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.archoralbio.2011.09.016.
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d’Angelo, Danila, Andrea Chirico, Luigi Sacchettino, Federica Manunta, Maurizio Martucci, Anna Cestaro, Luigi Avallone, Antonio Giordano, and Francesca Ciani. "Human-Dog Relationship during the First COVID-19 Lockdown in Italy." Animals 11, no. 8 (August 7, 2021): 2335. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani11082335.
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The SARS-CoV2 pandemic forced an abrupt interruption of social contacts and interpersonal affective relationships all over the world, according to national directives. Many considerable inconveniences occurred with important repercussions also on the emotional state of people and their pets. We carried out a national survey to evaluate the human-dog relationship in a social isolation context using an adapted version of Monash Dog Owner Relationship Scale, the perception of the dogs’ discomfort by their human owners, and the resilience of the dog through the quantification of symptoms, in time of the first lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic. The results highlighted that the human-dog interaction was similar during quarantine; however, there was lower owner’s perception of a dog’s cost during the quarantine than before it.
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Lyons, Brian D., Robert H. Moorman, and Brittany K. Mercado. "Normalizing mistreatment? Investigating Dark Triad, LMX, and abuse." Leadership & Organization Development Journal 40, no. 3 (May 13, 2019): 369–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/lodj-11-2018-0408.
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Purpose Given that many subordinates work for leaders who mistreat them, the purpose of this paper is to examine whether leader–member exchange (LMX) influences the relationship between leaders’ dark triad (DT) traits and follower perceptions of abusive supervision. Drawing on theories of idiosyncratic and deviance credits, the authors posit that high LMX weakens the positive relationship between leaders’ DT traits and the perception of abusive supervision. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from 326 full-time employees. A moderated regression was performed to determine whether high LMX weakened the relationships between each DT trait (Machiavellianism, narcissism and psychopathy) and the perception of abusive supervision. Findings Results suggested that high LMX indeed weakened the positive relationships between two leader DT traits – narcissism and psychopathy – and the occurrence of abusive supervision. Hence, employees who perceived their LMX relationship to be high were less likely to report the occurrence of abusive supervision when their leader was also perceived to be high in narcissism or psychopathy. A post hoc analysis suggested different results for mixed-sex dyads. Practical implications The present study suggests a potential strategy for reducing the detrimental effects of a DT leader, namely, forming a high-quality relationship between leader and follower. Originality/value This study addresses the call for more research into the boundary conditions under which leader characteristics may affect followers. Drawing on past research that treats LMX as a boundary condition, the authors frame LMX as an important buffer between DT leader characteristics and the perception of abusive supervision. Results suggest a potential exchange of deviance credits in cases where LMX is high rather than low.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Relationships; Human perception"
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Fidler, Margaret. "Human-animal relationships : perception, attitudes and ethics." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.395880.
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Fukuda, Kaoru. "The place of animals in British moral discourse : a field study from the Scottish Borders." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.320930.
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Durao, M. J. "Colour and space : an analysis of the relationships between colour meaning expression and the perception of space." Thesis, University of Salford, 2000. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/26645/.
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This thesis examines the phenomenon of colour as a means of expression of meaning in spatial contexts. The nature of the underpinning project involved paintings and their integration with an architectural setting. Judgements made-in-situ by users of the building and an expert focus group (architects, designers and fine artists) were comparatively analysed for variance in interpretations of meaning, taking into consideration their experience with colour as a medium of expression. Commonalities and differences in the responses of colour amongst and between the various groups were also analysed. To achieve this a combination of questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, and focus group meetings were used as data sources. The researcher used her experience as a painter to create two large paintings (11.5m x 2m each), which were installed in the public space of the Manchester Bridgewater Concert Hall over a period of four months. One painting was predominantly blue and green, the other was predominantly yellow and red. The installation had two phases, in which the respective paintings were each installed separately and accompanied by a corresponding lighting scheme. Colours were separated into two temperature groups - warm and cold. However, previous research findings had indicated that responses to these two groups of colour differ along other dimensions also. What had not been established by previous research, and was examined in this project, was whether these indicative differences would apply when colour is approached as part of an holistic environmental meaning rather than in isolation. The integration of paintings and colour into the architectural setting made it possible for multiple layers of experience to be examined. Meaning was extracted from the relationship between colour and the perception of two dimensions of space - pictorial space depicted in the paintings and the architectural space. The relationship between both was also explored which allowed the confirmation of previous findings and the analysis of the variables which need to be addressed when dealing with colour for paintings in real architectural environments. The thesis describes the author's conceptual model based on a combination of this empirical evidence and theoretical framework developed from the existing interdisciplinary body of knowledge on colour. The thesis also discusses how relationships between the aesthetic and psychological categories were established. It contributes to the field by demonstrating how the subjectivity of the perceptual experience can be translated into the expression of meaning along cognitive and affective dimensions within the context of a real-life application of colour in space. Additional to the written thesis a short audiovisual provided in both video and CD Rom, was created to show both the making of the paintings and their installation at the Bridgewater Concert Hall.
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Hilbelink, Amy JoAnne. "The effectiveness and user perception of 3-dimensional digital human anatomy in an online undergraduate anatomy laboratory." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2007. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001876.
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Chen, Chien-Lin Clinical School St George Hospital Faculty of Medicine UNSW. "Relationships among afferent neural processing, peristalsis and bolus clearance in the human oesophagus: implications for symptom perception and dysphagia." Publisher:University of New South Wales. Clinical School - St George Hospital, 2008. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/41847.
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In this thesis, the relationships among oesophageal motility, bolus clearance and sensory perception of oesophageal stimuli in patients with several dysphagia syndromes were investigated. The work is divided into the following major sections: 1) Current advances in the application of impedance and its utility in distinguishing clearance characteristics between primary and secondary peristalsis; 2) The advances in our understanding of peristaltic motor characteristics, oesophageal bolus clearance and symptom perception in dysphagia syndromes; 3) Peristaltic dysfunction, impaired bolus clearance and symptom perception in gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD) and in patients with globus; 4) TRPV1 expression in oesophageal mucosa in patients with GORD. The main findings from this work are: 1) Secondary peristalsis is less effective as primary peristalsis regarding esophageal transit and clearance of a liquid bolus. 2) In patients with non-obstructive dysphagia (NOD), bolus clearance by both morphologically normal and aberrant secondary peristaltic sequences is impaired. 3) Although, when compared with healthy controls, patients with NOD have a higher prevalence of non-specifically abnormal motor patterns, there is a poor correlation between dysphagia and oesophageal dysmotility. 4) Whereas manometry identified motility abnormalities in one quarter of patients with GORD, impedance demonstrated that the majority of these patients, as well as some patients with normal manometry, had defective bolus clearance. 5) Although patients with erosive GORD have delayed oesophageal bolus clearance, manometric characteristics in these patients are comparable to those seen in non-erosive reflux disease (NERD). These findings are compatible with the hypothesis that abnormal oesophageal bolus clearance may reflect a continuum of dysfunction secondary to increasing oesophageal mucosal damage. 6) Patients with globus are characterized by oesophageal visceral hypersensitivity and aberrant viscerosomatic referral of mechanical and electrical stimuli to the oesophagus. These findings support the hypothesis that oesophageal hypersensitivity with associated viscerosomatic referral patterns are an important pathogenetic mechanism for globus. 7) Patients with erosive GORD exhibit greater gene expression of TRPV1 in oesophageal mucosa when compared with NERD or healthy controls. These findings support the hypothesis that chronic inflammation may lead to the release of mediators which may modulate function of primary sensory neurons.
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Hornstein, Daniel L. (Daniel Lather). "Relationships Between Selected Musical Aural Discrimination Skills and a Multivariate Measure of Intellectual Skills." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1986. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331803/.
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This study attempted to explore the strength and nature of relationships between specific intellectual information processing skills included in a multi-dimensional model conceived by Guilford, and measured by Meeker's Structure of Intellect - Learning Abilities Test, and specific musical aural discrimination skills as measured by Gordon's Musical Aptitude Profile. Three research questions were posed, which involved determining the strength and the nature of the relationship between MAP melodic, rhythmic, and aesthetic discrimination abilities and the intellectual information processing skills comprising the SOI - LA. Both instruments were administered to 387 fourth, fifth, and sixth graders from schools in the Dallas area. After a pilot study established the feasibility of the study and reliability estimates of the test instruments, multiple regression analysis determined that 10% to 15% of the variance between intellectual information-processing skills and the individual musical aural discrimination abilities was in common (r = +.32 to r = +.39). It was further determined that only six specific SOI intellectual dimensions, all involving the skills of "Cognition" and "Evaluation", were significantly related to the musical aural discrimination abilities. Through the use of the Coefficient of Partial Correlation, the strength of each individual information-processing skill's unique contribution to that covariance was determined. The study indicated that "Semantic" mental information processing skills, involving the ability to recall an abstract meaning or procedure given an external stimulus, play an extremely important part within this relationship. Skills of a "Figural" nature, which involve comprehending either a physical object or an non-physical idea and separating it from other impinging stimuli also enter into the relationship, although not to so high an extent. Finally, it was observed that the dimensions involving an understanding of "Systems", those mental skills which deal with groupings of figures, symbols, or semantic relationships, also was important to the relationship.
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Mogano, Lydia Lehlogonolo. "Unearthing the essence of nature and the perception of the natural landscape among the amaXhosa in the Eastern Cape : an exploratory study." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007742.
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The recognition of the close link between the lifestyles of 'indigenous' and 'local' people and biodiversity is widely acknowledged as crucial, not only for the survival of biological diversity but also for the protection of cultural diversity. Most discussions centre on the argument that cultural diversity can, through a wide variety of uses and practices, sustain and conserve biodiversity, particularly in many developing countries. However, local people's relationship with natural landscapes and the extent to which they value biodiversity has not been fully explored and is in most cases misunderstood, which in fact undermines the bio-cultural diversity link. This misunderstanding exists primarily because the majority of environmental or ecological research conducted so far has been oriented towards economic valuation, in quantifying the estimated value of plants and fauna utilised by local people. As a result, biodiversity is primarily treated as a commodity, with wild harvested plant products being classified as either having subsistence, or commercial and medicinal value. This approach is narrow and conceals the critical, profound noneconomic values of biodiversity among local communities in everyday life. Literature indicates that biodiversity and natural landscapes also include less tangible values such as spiritual, cultural, psychological and social values (e.g., sense of place, place attachment, and psychologically restorative effects) which are crucial to human well-being. This suggests that human-nature interaction is complex, and that the meanings and values that people ascribe to natural landscapes cannot be solely reduced to economic values. Nevertheless, to date, studies investigating these less tangible values have received little attention in South Africa. As a result, we have very little understanding of what local and indigenous communities value or appreciate with regard to natural landscapes, beyond their general economic significance. This study seeks to address this particular limitation by exploring non-economic values of natural landscapes and their significances to local people while illuminating the complexities inherent in human-nature interactions. I argue that the purely economic valuation of natural resources is simplistic and biased, and therefore does not represent the complete meaning and significance that natural resources may hold for local communities and households. Therefore, this study takes an innovative psychological approach to explore in detail the everyday lived experiences of the amaXhosa in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. It seeks to investigate the cultural, spiritual, and psychological values that ordinary people attach to natural landscapes in the peri-urban and urban communities of Ndlambe Village l and Grahamstown respectively. This research also aims to study the general perceptions of and meanings ascribed to the natural landscape (referred to by the amaXhosa as ihlathi lesiXhosa). In addition, it carefully integrates the Phenomenological and Transactional approaches to investigate how the amaXhosa engage, interact, and find meaning within the natural landscape. Furthermore, the study explores the impact of such landscape experiences on local people's spiritual and psychological well-being, demonstrating it link to bio-cultural diversity and conservation. The major findings in this study reflect that ihlathi lesiXhosa provides a place for peace and tranquillity to enhance psychological restoration. Moreover, ihlathi contributes towards redefining and strengthening personal and cultural identity; and provides spiritual satisfaction in everyday life. Overall, the findings of this study indicate that i!liathi lesiXhosa plays a profound role in both the personal and social lives of many amaXhosa in the Eastern Cape in that it appears to improve their lives. Therefore, the evidence in this study suggests that, among the amaXhosa, biodiversity and natural landscape management processes should not aim to address and promote ecologicallbiological and economic values in a compartmentalized manner independent of other social, cultural, psychological, and more specifically the spiritual values of these features. An increased understanding of these more intangible values and local people's value system of biodiversity could help towards implementing improved biodiversity conservation and landscape management strategies in South Africa. These insights would not only help us to address the challenges of the previous conservation framework but would also encourage a more inclusive, mutual benefiting process that respects local people's values and needs.
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Roberts, Kristopher. "your little voice: An autoethnographic narrative on philosophy, technology, relationships, and the arts." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1525293031814062.
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Boyd, Lauren. "“When he’s up there he’s just happy and content”: parents’ perceptions of therapeutic horseback riding." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/96745.
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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2015ENGLISH ABSTRACT : The present research set out to explore parents‟ perceptions of therapeutic horseback riding as an activity for their children with multiple disabilities. It was designed to explore their vicarious experiences of the activity as well as their perceptions of their children‟s experiences of the activity. In order to achieve this, a semi-structured interview was set up with 12 parents whose children participate in therapeutic horseback riding at the South African Riding for the Disabled Association (SARDA) in Constantia, Cape Town. The children ranged in age from 6-17 years and had a range of disabilities including physical and intellectual disabilities. Upon completion of the interviews, the data was transcribed by the researcher and analysed using thematic analysis. Following thematic analysis, three themes emerged: the effects of therapeutic horseback riding on the children, parents‟ personal experiences of therapeutic horseback riding and SARDA, and parents‟ perceived reasons for the improvements in their children. These results are supported by results in existing literature. The results however also address a gap in the existing literature regarding parents‟ perceptions of therapeutic horseback riding and their children‟s experiences of the activity. Stellenbosch University https://scholar.sun.ac.za
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING : Die huidige navorsing het ten doel om ouers se persepsie ten opsigte van terapeutiese perdry as aktiwiteit vir hul kinders met verskillende vorms van gestremdheid te ondersoek. Daar is gepoog om sowel die ouers as die kinders se ondervinding van die aktiwiteit te bepaal. Ten einde die doelwit te bereik is semi-gestruktureerde onderhoude gereël met twaalf ouers wie se kinders aan die terapeutiese perdry by die South African Riding for the Disabled Association (SARDA) in Constantia, Kaapstad deelneem. Die kinders se ouderdomme het gewissel tussen 6 en 17 jaar en hulle het 'n verskeidenheid van gestremdhede gehad wat beide fisiese en intellektuele gestremdhede ingesluit het. Na afhandeling van die onderhoude, is die data opgeteken deur die navorser en verwerk deur gebruik te maak van tematiese analise. Uit die tematiese analise het die volgende drie patrone duidelik geword: Die effek van terapeutiese perdry op die kinders, ouers se persoonlike ondervinding van terapeutiese perdry en SARDA en ouers se persepsie van die redes vir verbetering in hul kinders. Hierdie resultate word ondersteun deur bestaande literatuur. Die resultate vul ook „n gaping in bestaande literatuur aan ten opsigte van die ouers se persepsie van terapeutiese perdry en ook ouers en hul kinders se ervaring van die aktiwiteit.
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Qiao, Si. "The relationship between three dimensional human cephalic animation, audiences perception and emotional response." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2016. https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-relationship-between-three-dimensional-human-cephalic-animation-audiences-perception-and-emotional-response(bf3afa91-2d05-4db0-a64b-9b48c1e2a104).html.
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The creation of realistic and believable Three-Dimensional (3D) human characters continues to be an important goal for many modern 3D animators. However, the relationship between quality of 3D human animation and the way in which the audience responds is not yet understood. Since the audience's subjective judgement has implications for their perception and emotional response, it is important to find ways to address whether these are reported similarly by audiences. Moreover, the Uncanny Valley model, which describes a drop in believability as human-like characters become more realistic, assumes that the audience's perception would be affected by their emotional response. Therefore many 3D animators try to improve realism and believability so their 3D human animations cross over the Uncanny Valley. This thesis explore a number of components of 3D human characters and proposes a new model. for better understanding the interplay between 3D human animation and the audience. A review of the literature established that the audience's subjective feeling and emotional response are different aspects of audience perception, although both relate to their prior experience. This new model establishes that 3D human character's Appearance and Movement properties could influence the audience's perception of visual realism, but they also interact with the Contextual properties, which may not match the audience's expectations. These Contextual properties, including emotional expressions, are becoming increasingly important, especially when the 3D human characters are performing in a realistic context. Therefore this thesis investigated a number of factors influencing cephalic animation and perception of cephalic animation in 3D human characters. Empirical studies demonstrated that a dynamic displayed 3D human cephalic animation with speech can significantly affect the audience's subjective judgement, in terms of Eeriness, Believability and Actual Visual Realism. Further investigation demonstrated that there is a range of subcomponents of movements, which affect the audience's subjective judgement.Neck auxiliary, gaze behaviour and eye region all contributed to the audience perception and emotional response in different ways. This thesis adds to this understanding and will facilitate 3D animators to create 3D human characters which can better influence the audience's subjective judgement. Moreover, this thesis suggests that there is more to understanding animated display than simply the display itself or the sum of its component parts.
Books on the topic "Relationships; Human perception"
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Almond, David. Secret heart. New York: Delacorte Press, 2001.
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1910-, Leonard Paul Herman, and Leonardo Bianca, eds. Adventures in kinship with all life. Joshua Tree, Calif: Tree of Life Publications, 1990.
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Velmans, Hester. Isabel of the whales. New York: Yearling, 2006.
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Velmans, Hester. Isabel of the whales. New York: Delacorte Press, 2005.
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Almond, David. Secret heart. New York: Delacorte Press, 2002.
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Emergent forms: Origins and early development of human action and perception. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
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ill, Keiser Paige, ed. Raj, the bookstore tiger. Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge, 2011.
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Pelley, Kathleen T. Raj, the bookstore tiger. Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge, 2011.
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Isabel of the whales. New York: Scholastic Inc., 2007.
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Monte, Laila Del. Psychic communication with animals for health and healing. Rochester, Vt: Bear & Co., 2010.
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Kessler, Neil H. "Relational Perception and Knowledge." In Ontology and Closeness in Human-Nature Relationships, 195–220. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99274-7_7.
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Vinter, A. "Sensory and Perceptual Control of Action in Early Human Development." In Relationships Between Perception and Action, 305–24. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75348-0_11.
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Qiu, Waishan, Wenjing Li, Xun Liu, and Xiaokai Huang. "Subjectively Measured Streetscape Qualities for Shanghai with Large-Scale Application of Computer Vision and Machine Learning." In Proceedings of the 2021 DigitalFUTURES, 242–51. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5983-6_23.
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AbstractRecently, many new studies emerged to apply computer vision (CV) to street view imagery (SVI) dataset to objectively extract the view indices of various streetscape features such as trees to proxy urban scene qualities. However, human perceptions (e.g., imageability) have a subtle relationship to visual elements which cannot be fully captured using view indices. Conversely, subjective measures using survey and interview data explain more human behaviors. However, the effectiveness of integrating subjective measures with SVI dataset has been less discussed. To address this, we integrated crowdsourcing, CV, and machine learning (ML) to subjectively measure four important perceptions suggested by classical urban design theory. We first collected experts’ rating on sample SVIs regarding the four qualities which became the training labels. CV segmentation was applied to SVI samples extracting streetscape view indices as the explanatory variables. We then trained ML models and achieved high accuracy in predicting the scores. We found a strong correlation between predicted complexity score and the density of urban amenities and services Point of Interests (POI), which validates the effectiveness of subjective measures. In addition, to test the generalizability of the proposed framework as well as to inform urban renewal strategies, we compared the measured qualities in Pudong to other five renowned urban cores worldwide. Rather than predicting perceptual scores directly from generic image features using convolution neural network, our approach follows what urban design theory suggested and confirms various streetscape features affecting multi-dimensional human perceptions. Therefore, its result provides more interpretable and actionable implications for policymakers and city planners.
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Gurrib, Ikhlaas. "The Relationship Between the Inequality-Adjusted Human Development Index and the Corruption Perceptions Index in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Major Economies." In The Political Economy of Wasta: Use and Abuse of Social Capital Networking, 47–61. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22201-1_4.
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Wang, Yingxu. "On the Cognitive Processes of Human Perception with Emotions, Motivations, and Attitudes." In Human Computer Interaction, 685–97. IGI Global, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-87828-991-9.ch046.
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An interactive motivation-attitude theory is developed based on the Layered Reference Model of the Brain (LRMB) and the object-attributerelation (OAR) model. This paper presents a rigorous model of human perceptual processes such as emotions, motivations, and attitudes. A set of mathematical models and formal cognitive processes of perception is developed. Interactions and relationships between motivation and attitude are formally described in real-time process algebra (RTPA). Applications of the mathematical models of motivations and attitudes in software engineering are demonstrated. This work is a part of the formalization of LRMB, which provides a comprehensive model for explaining the fundamental cognitive processes of the brain and their interactions. This work demonstrates that the complicated human emotional and perceptual phenomena can be rigorously modeled and formally treated based on cognitive informatics theories and denotational mathematics.
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Ayscue, Latonia M. "Perception of Communication in Virtual Learning Environments." In Analyzing Digital Discourse and Human Behavior in Modern Virtual Environments, 25–39. IGI Global, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9899-4.ch002.
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Perception research helps to understand how stimuli (gist) interacts with learners' sensory systems (visual, auditory, tactile). Communication in virtual learning environments is significant because when the laws of perception are manifested, the strategy should include discovering how the relationships between the instructional design process (analyze, design, develop, implement and evaluate) synthesizes learning theories and learners' experience to create effective communication in virtual instructional events, learning objectives and goals.
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Wang, Yingxu. "On the Cognitive Processes of Human Perception with Emotions, Motivations, and Attitudes." In Selected Readings on the Human Side of Information Technology, 141–53. IGI Global, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-088-2.ch008.
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An interactive motivation-attitude theory is developed based on the Layered Reference Model of the Brain (LRMB) and the object-attributerelation (OAR) model. This paper presents a rigorous model of human perceptual processes such as emotions, motivations, and attitudes. A set of mathematical models and formal cognitive processes of perception is developed. Interactions and relationships between motivation and attitude are formally described in real-time process algebra (RTPA). Applications of the mathematical models of motivations and attitudes in software engineering are demonstrated. This work is a part of the formalization of LRMB, which provides a comprehensive model for explaining the fundamental cognitive processes of the brain and their interactions. This work demonstrates that the complicated human emotional and perceptual phenomena can be rigorously modeled and formally treated based on cognitive informatics theories and denotational mathematics.
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Sousa, Andrea, João Fernandes Thomaz, Eulália Santos, Aquilino Felizardo, and Carlos Francisco Silva. "The Perception of Employee Effect and Brand in Industry and Services." In Advances in Business Strategy and Competitive Advantage, 116–30. IGI Global, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-2963-8.ch006.
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Employee brand effect is a process that values the management of human resources in organizations and contributes to a real and concrete diagnosis of the relational environment inside organizations by promoting internal marketing in people management. This process results from the increase of actions in the domain of interpersonal relationships, which result from the informality of social exchanges in the organization. The present study covered 30 Portuguese organizations from the center region of Portugal in the services and industry areas that responded to a questionnaire survey measuring the process. The results show that in the industry sector there is a greater variation in the employee branding process through mentoring and helping relationships and also a greater variation in the organizational integration domain through the dynamics of interpersonal relationships, which consequently leads to the perception that employee branding effect is more positive in industry employees.
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Osinski, Grzegorz, and Veslava Osinska. "Shapes and Patterns in Visualizing Human Knowledge." In Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology, 1–16. IGI Global, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-4990-1.ch001.
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The concepts of knowledge presentation have their origin in the early Middle Ages and establish contemporary trends in visualization activity. Using the latest scientific observations, it is possible to conclude that circles and spheres are the most common natural shapes in both micro- and macrospace. The next most often used metaphor in medieval literature is a tree: an instance of fractals that today determines the geometry of nature. The fractals are the strong attractors of human mind space. The problem is how these two forms interact with each other and how they coexist in the context of effective visualization of information. The chapter presents an intercultural historical outline of appropriate graphical forms for knowledge representation. The authors strive to prove the main hypothesis: fractals and spheres contribute to modern complex visualization. The reasons may be sought in human perception and cognition. This chapter discusses visualization problems in the form of tree-like fractal structures embedded in spherical shapes over time, different cultures, and inter-personal relationships.
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Spöhrer, Markus. "A Cyborg Perspective." In Advances in Media, Entertainment, and the Arts, 80–95. IGI Global, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0616-4.ch006.
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The paper focuses on the man-machine relationships between the cochlear implant and its wearers as a contemporary form of cyborgization. The research object will be Michael Chorost's biographical account of his implantation and adaption to the implant. In a theoretical section an effort is made to argue that Actor-Network Theory can function as a “cyborg perspective,” which allows for describing the symbiosis between the implant and Chorost as a practice of reciprocal “tuning” and the processual production of perception as a complex relationship between technical object, human body and environment. Based on Actor-Network theory's concept of “symmetry,” technical object, the biochemical activities of the human body and their relation to a presumed “outside” environment are equally involved and constituted. Finally, the chapter suggests that this specific relationship can be paralleled with the concept of mediality as it has been discussed in the German-speaking academic context.
Conference papers on the topic "Relationships; Human perception"
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Li, Jamy, Wendy Ju, and Cliff Nass. "Observer Perception of Dominance and Mirroring Behavior in Human-Robot Relationships." In HRI '15: ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2696454.2696459.
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Yamamoto, Tomohisa, and Atsushi Sakuma. "Numerical Evaluation of Recalling Elasticity due to Surface Roughness by Finite Element Modeling of Human Skin." In ASME 2019 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2019-11881.
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Abstract Among human sensations, tactile perception has an important role in physics and in living comfortably. It is already known that surface roughness greatly affects the feel of solid objects, but the mechanics of the relationship between feeling and physics, as well as their effects, are difficult to determine. This study, aims to clarify the numerical relationship between elastic tactile perception and surface roughness of a rigid body by designing various products with surfaces comfortable to touch. The finite element method (FEM) has been adopted for this clarification, and a numerical model of human skin with 3 layers, epidermis, dermis, and subcutaneous, has been developed to discuss the mechanical effects of touch movement. This skin model is used to evaluate the distribution of skin deformations during the process of touch movement, and the analysis of the tactile perception is done by discussing the distribution change due to touching objects. The change in distribution of deformation is mainly discussed in terms of pressure under the epidermis, and various patterns of distribution are inspected by changing the diameters and pitch ratio of a uniformly spread ball used as a plain surface. By comparing the relationship between distributions of rigid and elastic surfaces, similar distributions of pressure in the skin model were observed, and the relationships of the distribution are summarized to solve the mechanics of touch feeling. In this summarization, the maximum pressure and the maximum gradient of pressure distribution are adopted as parameters for the analysis. The analysis shows that it is numerically possible to represent the elasticity recalled by the rigid surface from its relationship with the elastic surface when they have the same maximum pressure and maximum inclination of pressure. The importance of maximum inclination of pressure for touch feeling is also shown here.
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Bukvic, Ivica Ico, Gregory Earle, Disha Sardana, and Woohun Joo. "Studies in Spatial Aural Perception: Establishing Foundations for Immersive Sonification." In ICAD 2019: The 25th International Conference on Auditory Display. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Northumbria University, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.21785/icad2019.017.
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The Spatial Audio Data Immersive Experience (SADIE) project aims to identify new foundational relationships pertaining to hu-man spatial aural perception, and to validate existing relation-ships. Our infrastructure consists of an intuitive interaction in-terface, an immersive exocentric sonification environment, and a layer-based amplitude-panning algorithm. Here we highlight the system’s unique capabilities and provide findings from an initial externally funded study that focuses on the assessment of human aural spatial perception capacity. When compared to the existing body of literature focusing on egocentric spatial perception, our data show that an immersive exocentric environment enhances spatial perception, and that the physical implementation using high density loudspeaker arrays enables significantly improved spatial perception accuracy relative to the egocentric and virtual binaural approaches. The preliminary observations suggest that human spatial aural perception capacity in real-world-like immersive exocentric environments that allow for head and body movement is significantly greater than in egocentric scenarios where head and body movement is restricted. Therefore, in the design of immersive auditory displays, the use of immersive exocentric environments is advised. Further, our data identify a significant gap between physical and virtual human spatial aural perception accuracy, which suggests that further development of virtual aural immersion may be necessary before such an approach may be seen as a viable alternative.
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Boychenko, Kristina. "Re-defining the Role of Interactive Architecture in Social Relationships." In International Conference on the 4th Game Set and Match (GSM4Q-2019). Qatar University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.29117/gsm4q.2019.0016.
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With rapid advance of new technologies and mediated built space has shifted from a static context of functions serving users to a new participant of social relationships. Interactive abilities and computational power allow built space to become smart, dynamic, and interactive, gaining agency, able to receive information and think, perceive and learn, respond and change behavior in real time. This paper considers architectural components and users as participants of a social network and investigates their agency within this network, modes of interaction and how the components of this system influence each other. Perception of space within or outside of the building body has become a derivative of interaction between the space and the users, and therefore subject to design and programming by architects. The principal goal of this paper is to investigate the new definition of social role of interactive architecture and explain how it communicates with users, investigate the new properties it has and how does it influence users' behavior and space awareness. It reveals the importance of bi-directional communication between society and interactive environment. Interactive space works as a mirror, reflecting social and cultural context, or a double-sided mirror allowing interactive environment to observe users and decide how to act in accordance with these observations. Within the framework of this discourse, architectural components and people are treated as agents of one socio-technical network with equal rights and agency. It considers both human and non-human elements equally as actors within a network, employing the same analytical and descriptive methodology to all actors within a heterogeneous network.
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Bordegoni, Monica, Secil Ugur, and Marina Carulli. "When Technology Has Invisible Hands: Designing Wearable Technologies for Haptic Communication of Emotions." In ASME 2012 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2012-70374.
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In face-to-face communication, touch can establish intimacy, and therefore the presence of tactile stimulation can enhance the interpersonal relationships. While human-human interaction has been shifting from face-to-face physical conversations to electronically mediated form of communication, current technologies are not able to provide a multimodal sensorial experience that can support haptic interaction besides visual and auditory. Within the haptic research fields, affective haptics explore emotional interaction and perception mediated via touch that is simulated by technology. Besides, wearable technology and tangible interfaces can be employed as a solution to bridge the gap between the digital and physical worlds by making the body fully engaged with the interaction. This paper presents findings of a design practice that explores the avenues of affective tactile interaction through wearable technology, which can artificially produce tactile stimulations as medium for instant communication between two people. The findings are presented by the light of theoretical background, observations and analysis of the design practice.
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Hemingray, Peter. "The Relationship of Automotive Balance Limits to Human Perception." In SAE 2004 World Congress & Exhibition. 400 Commonwealth Drive, Warrendale, PA, United States: SAE International, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.4271/2004-01-0401.
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Isomoto, Toshiya, Shota Yamanaka, and Buntarou Shizuki. "Relationship between Dwell-Time and Model Human Processor for Dwell-based Image Selection." In SAP '21: ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 2021. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3474451.3476240.
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Peterson, Joshua C., Joshua T. Abbott, and Thomas L. Griffiths. "Adapting Deep Network Features to Capture Psychological Representations: An Abridged Report." In Twenty-Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2017/697.
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Deep neural networks have become increasingly successful at solving classic perception problems (e.g., recognizing objects), often reaching or surpassing human-level accuracy. In this abridged report of Peterson et al. [2016], we examine the relationship between the image representations learned by these networks and those of humans. We find that deep features learned in service of object classification account for a significant amount of the variance in human similarity judgments for a set of animal images. However, these features do not appear to capture some key qualitative aspects of human representations. To close this gap, we present a method for adapting deep features to align with human similarity judgments, resulting in image representations that can potentially be used to extend the scope of psychological experiments and inform human-centric AI.
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Hyun, Eunja, Hyunmin Yoon, and Sooryun Son. "Relationships between user experiences and children's perceptions of the education robot." In 2010 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). IEEE, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/hri.2010.5453197.
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Chanonsirivorakul, Rinlapat, and Nitikarn Nimsuk. "A Study of Relationship Between Sensor Response and Odor Perception in Human." In 2018 International Electrical Engineering Congress (iEECON). IEEE, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ieecon.2018.8712243.
Full textReports on the topic "Relationships; Human perception"
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Avis, William. Role of Faith and Belief in Environmental Engagement and Action in MENA Region. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), May 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/k4d.2021.086.
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This helpdesk report provides a critical review of the literature on the role of faith and religious values in environmental engagement and action. Contemporary studies have examined the relationship between religion and climate change including the ongoing “greening” process of religions. The review focuses on the responses of the Islamic faith in the MENA region to climate-related issues. MENA is considered one of the region’s most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. The rapid review drawing from empirical findings notes that religious organizations have great potential in the protection of the environment. Religious organizations possess resources and infrastructure to positively impact the conversation on climate change. While the review acknowledges the important role that religion plays in environmental engagement, there is still no unified perception of climate change among members of the Islamic faith. There are those who believe that there are other more urgent issues such as radicalism, terrorism, democracy, and human rights. The review notes that the shared challenge of climate change can provide a mechanism to bring together faiths to discuss, share teachings, and agree on common action.
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Hall, Mark, and Neil Price. Medieval Scotland: A Future for its Past. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, September 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.9750/scarf.09.2012.165.
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The main recommendations of the panel report can be summarised under five key headings. Underpinning all five areas is the recognition that human narratives remain crucial for ensuring the widest access to our shared past. There is no wish to see political and economic narratives abandoned but the need is recognised for there to be an expansion to more social narratives to fully explore the potential of the diverse evidence base. The questions that can be asked are here framed in a national context but they need to be supported and improved a) by the development of regional research frameworks, and b) by an enhanced study of Scotland’s international context through time. 1. From North Britain to the Idea of Scotland: Understanding why, where and how ‘Scotland’ emerges provides a focal point of research. Investigating state formation requires work from Medieval Scotland: a future for its past ii a variety of sources, exploring the relationships between centres of consumption - royal, ecclesiastical and urban - and their hinterlands. Working from site-specific work to regional analysis, researchers can explore how what would become ‘Scotland’ came to be, and whence sprang its inspiration. 2. Lifestyles and Living Spaces: Holistic approaches to exploring medieval settlement should be promoted, combining landscape studies with artefactual, environmental, and documentary work. Understanding the role of individual sites within wider local, regional and national settlement systems should be promoted, and chronological frameworks developed to chart the changing nature of Medieval settlement. 3. Mentalities: The holistic understanding of medieval belief (particularly, but not exclusively, in its early medieval or early historic phase) needs to broaden its contextual understanding with reference to prehistoric or inherited belief systems and frames of reference. Collaborative approaches should draw on international parallels and analogues in pursuit of defining and contrasting local or regional belief systems through integrated studies of portable material culture, monumentality and landscape. 4. Empowerment: Revisiting museum collections and renewing the study of newly retrieved artefacts is vital to a broader understanding of the dynamics of writing within society. Text needs to be seen less as a metaphor and more as a technological and social innovation in material culture which will help the understanding of it as an experienced, imaginatively rich reality of life. In archaeological terms, the study of the relatively neglected cultural areas of sensory perception, memory, learning and play needs to be promoted to enrich the understanding of past social behaviours. 5. Parameters: Multi-disciplinary, collaborative, and cross-sector approaches should be encouraged in order to release the research potential of all sectors of archaeology. Creative solutions should be sought to the challenges of transmitting the importance of archaeological work and conserving the resource for current and future research.