Selection in a Snapshot? The Contribution of Visuals to the Selection and Avoidance of Political News in Information-Rich Media Settings

The psychological bases of the selection and attitudinal response to news media have received ample attention in political communication research. However, the interplay between three crucial factors in today’s online, high-choice news media settings remains understudied: (1) textual versus multimodal (text-plus-visual) communication; (2)...

Evaluation of Immersive Teleoperation Systems using Standardized Tasks and Measurements

Despite advances regarding autonomous functionality for robots, teleoperation remains a means for performing delicate tasks in safety critical contexts like explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) and ambiguous environments. Immersive stereoscopic displays have been proposed and developed in this regard, but bring about their own specific problems, e...

Towards Low-Complexity Scalable Coding for Ultra-High Resolution Video and beyond

The current state of the art of video coding lacks specific tools to efficiently deal with ultra-high resolutions such as 8K video both at a hardware and software level. At the same time, the increase in video resolutions combined with a larger variety in display resolutions results in a need for spatial scalability at low computational...

Multi-sensor capture and network processing for virtual reality conferencing

Recent developments in key technologies like 5G, Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) and Tactile Internet result in new possibilities for communication. Particularly, these key digital technologies can enable remote communication and collaboration in remote experiences. In this demo, we work towards 6-degrees of freedom (DoF) photo-realistic...

Subjective user experience and performance with active tangibles on a tabletop interface

We developed active tangibles (Sensators) that can be used in combination with multitouch tabletops and that can provide multisensory (visual, auditory, and vibrotactile) feedback. For spatial alignment and rotation tasks we measured subjective user experience and objective performance with these Sensators. We found that active feedback...

A cognitive model for visual attention and its application (Extended abstract)

In the domain of naval command and control and warfare, the complex and dynamic nature of the environment makes that a warfare officer, who has to compile a tactical picture of the situation, has to deal with a large number of tasks in parallel. This study aims at investigating the use of a cognitive model of visual attention as part of the...

A cognitive model for visual attention and its application

In this paper a cognitive model for visual attention is introduced. The cognitive model is part of the design of a software agent that supports a naval warfare officer in its task to compile a tactical picture of the situation in the field. An executable formal specification of the cognitive model is given and a case study is described in which...

Integrated design of intelligent surveillance systems and their user interface

Modern complex surveillance systems consisting of multiple and heterogeneous sensors, automatic information registration and data analysis techniques, and decision support tools should provide the human operator an integrated, transparent and easily comprehensible view of the surveyed scene. Displayed visual information should be optimally tuned...

Seeing is believing: Communication performance under isotropic teleconferencing conditions

The visual component of conversational media such as videoconferencing systems communicates important non-verbal information such as facial expressions, gestures, posture and gaze. Unlike the other cues, selective gaze depends critically on the configuration of cameras and monitors. Under isotropic videoconferencing conditions people see each...