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Visual Distraction Effects of In-Car Text Entry Methods

2017

Three text entry methods were compared in a driving simulator study with 17 participants. Ninety-seven drivers’ occlusion distance (OD) data mapped on the test routes was used as a baseline to evaluate the methods’ visual distraction potential. Only the voice recognition-based text entry tasks passed the set verification criteria. Handwriting tasks were experienced as the most demanding and the voice recognition tasks as the least demanding. An individual in-car glance length preference was found, but against expectations, drivers’ ODs did not correlate with incar glance lengths or visual short-term memory capacity. The handwriting method was further studied with 24 participants with instru…

ta113visual short-term memorydriver distraction050210 logistics & transportationocclusion distanceVisual Patterns TestComputer scienceSpeech recognition05 social sciencesDriving simulatorvisual demandAffect (psychology)Test (assessment)HandwritingDistraction0502 economics and businesstext entry methods0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesVisual short-term memorySet (psychology)050107 human factorsReliability (statistics)visual occlusionProceedings of the 9th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications
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Nonlinear black-box models for short-term forecasting of air temperature in the town of Palermo

2011

Weather data are crucial to correctly design buildings and their heating and cooling systems and to assess their energy performances. In the intensely urbanized towns the effect of climatic parameters is further emphasized by the Urban Heat Island (UHI) phenomenon, known as the increase in the air temperature of urban areas, compared to the one measured in the extra-urban areas. The analysis of the heat island needs detailed local climate data which can be collected only by a dedicated weather monitoring system. The Department of Energy and Environmental Researches of the University of Palermo (Italy) has built up a weather monitoring system that works 24 hours per day and makes data availa…

urban heat island.Settore ING-IND/11 - Fisica Tecnica AmbientaleMeteorologyartificial neural networks nonlinear black-box models MLP temperature short-term forecastingTerm (time)Weather stationNonlinear systemBlack boxAir temperatureClimatologyWeather dataEnvironmental scienceUrban heat islandIntensity (heat transfer)
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Sustained attention required for effective dimension-based retro-cue benefit in visual working memory

2023

In visual working memory (VWM) tasks, participants’ performances can be improved through the use of dimension-based retro-cues, which direct internal attention to prioritize a particular dimension (e.g., color or orientation) of VWM representations even after the stimuli disappear. This phenomenon is known as the dimension-based retro-cue benefit (RCB). The present study investigates whether sustained attention is required for the dimension-based RCB by inserting interference or interruption between the retro-cue and the test array to distract attention. We tested the effects of perceptual interference or cognitive interruption on dimension-based RCB when the interference (Experiments 1 and…

visual short-term memorysustained attentionOphthalmologydimensioninterferencedual taskretro-cuenäkömuistityömuistitarkkaavaisuuskognitiiviset prosessitSensory Systemsmuisti (kognitio)Journal of Vision
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