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Crowdsourcing for Usability Testing [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2012
While usability evaluation is critical to designing usable websites, traditional usability testing can be both expensive and time consuming. The advent of crowdsourcing platforms such as Amazon Mechanical Turk and CrowdFlower offer an intriguing new avenue for performing remote usability testing with potentially many users, quick turn-around, and ...
Rebecca Kuipers   +3 more
arxiv   +5 more sources

MAKING SENSE OF THE NOISE: INTEGRATING MULTIPLE ANALYSES FOR STOP AND TRIP CLASSIFICATION [PDF]

open access: yesThe International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2022
Mobility research is mainly concerned with understanding mobility on a higher level, including environmental factors, e.g., measuring the time out of home or tracking revisited places.
R. P. Spang   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

THE STAGA-DATASET: STOP AND TRIP ANNOTATED GPS AND ACCELEROMETER DATA OF EVERYDAY LIFE [PDF]

open access: yesThe International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2022
Identifying stops and trips from raw GPS traces is a fundamental preprocessing step for most mobility research applications. Thus, ensuring the excellent accuracy of such systems is of high interest to researchers designing such analysis pipelines. While
R. P. Spang   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Thoughts on the usage of audible smiling in speech synthesis applications

open access: yesFrontiers in Computer Science, 2022
In this perspective paper we explore the question how audible smiling can be integrated in speech synthesis applications. In human-human communication, smiling can serve various functions, such as signaling politeness or as a marker of trustworthiness ...
Jürgen Trouvain, Benjamin Weiss
doaj   +1 more source

Working With Environmental Noise and Noise-Cancelation: A Workload Assessment With EEG and Subjective Measures

open access: yesFrontiers in Neuroscience, 2021
As working and learning environments become open and flexible, people are also potentially surrounded by ambient noise, which causes an increase in mental workload.
Kerstin Pieper   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

The tiny effects of respiratory masks on physiological, subjective, and behavioral measures under mental load in a randomized controlled trial

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
Since the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), face coverings are recommended to diminish person-to-person transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Robert P. Spang, Kerstin Pieper
doaj   +1 more source

Affective Visualization in Virtual Reality: An Integrative Review

open access: yesFrontiers in Virtual Reality, 2021
A cluster of research in Affective Computing suggests that it is possible to infer some characteristics of users’ affective states by analyzing their electrophysiological activity in real-time.
Andres Pinilla   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effects of Spatial Speech Presentation on Listener Response Strategy for Talker-Identification

open access: yesFrontiers in Neuroscience, 2022
This study investigates effects of spatial auditory cues on human listeners' response strategy for identifying two alternately active talkers (“turn-taking” listening scenario).
Stefan Uhrig   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Influence of Noise Emitted by Vehicles on Pedestrian Crossing Decision-Making: A Study in a Virtual Environment

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2020
When crossing a road, pedestrians must detect traffic, combine data coming from different perceptual modalities, evaluate the time envelope for safely cross the street, and monitor the position of oncoming vehicles to perform corrective actions if needed.
Francisco Soares   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Understanding Engagement, Marketing, and Motivation to Benefit Recruitment and Retention in Citizen Science

open access: yesCitizen Science: Theory and Practice, 2022
In November 2020, a meeting was held to explore what citizen science practitioners can gain from understanding engagement, marketing, and volunteer motivations in order to benefit recruitment and retention in environmental citizen science.
Adam G. Hart   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

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