Browsing by Subject "Applied Cognitive Psychology"
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A dual eye tracking study: Uncovering gaze patterns during live conversations with different emotional content
(2021)The importance of the gaze has mesmerized writers, psychologists, philosophers and body language experts for ages. Despite the importance of social context, most studies that investigate gaze behavior have employed pictures ... -
An Evaluation of Educational Concepts – An Online Study
(2022)Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a progressive and irreversible disease characterized by persistent airflow limitation and respiratory symptoms such as shortness of breath and cough with excessive mucus ... -
Artificial intelligence for the predication of demographics from unsupervised eye tracking data
(2021)Background and motivation. Regular eye-tracking studies rarely report data from more than a hundred participants. This is mostly due to the considerable effort involved in assessing data, given that usually only one ... -
Car, call me by my name: Effectiveness of using the driver´s own name for in-car voice alerts
(2020)Summary thesis With increasing automation in vehicles, drivers will mainly focus on non-driving related activities and alerts that demand human intervention in driving must, therefore, be effective to quickly direct attention ... -
Communication and gaze behavior in a dyadic collaborative task
(2022)Humans and robots continue to share an increasing number of spaces, which calls for safe and intuitive interfaces of these robots. Humans and robots interact in numerous ways, an important way is through collaboration. ... -
Comparison study of differences for Asians and Westerners in Aesthetic Judgments and emotions using ancient Chinese paintings
(2022)The aim of this thesis is to find out how people from Western and eastern differ in their aesthetic preferences/judgments, as well as perception on emotions in ancient Chinese paintings. This study would investigate the ... -
Cortisol and the course of depressive symptoms: The SMART-Medea Study
(2019)Depression and dysregulation of the HPA-axis often co-occur, but the nature of this relationship is complex, and it is still unclear what the direction of causation is. We examined the influence of cortisol levels on the ... -
Creation of a HoloLens Application To Support Instructors During Pilot Simulation Training
(2018)This study investigates the product development of a HoloLens-application which enables instructors to see pilots’ gaze behaviour in real-time. Gaze behaviour is an important aspect of flying and can be difficult to learn, ... -
Does Increased Cognitive Load Impact Response Times to Your Name?
(2021)This present study investigates how visual cognitive load affects participants’ response times to hearing their name. We draw on previous work that found when subjects were visually distracted, they were faster in ... -
DOES THE PILL IMPEDE UNLEARNING FEAR? The impact of oral contraception use on fear extinction in an online conditioning
(2021)Research on psychological effects of oral contraception (OC) use has suggested negative effects. Specifically, OC use has been linked to fear extinction deficits. This study examined the effect of OC use and OC pill phase ... -
Een eye tracking onderzoek naar het effect van navigatie-informatie en drukte op de effectiviteit en efficiëntie in wayfinding op Utrecht Centraal Station
(2018)De weg kwijtraken kent vele nadelen, zowel voor de gemoedstoestand als voor de veiligheid van de navigator. Het gebruik van hulpmiddelen in een omgeving zoals architectonische structuren, informatieborden en kleuren kan ... -
Electronic Eyes: The Cognitive Effects of Webcam Surveillance
(2021)A side effect of the recent pandemic is that we now often view one another through the lens of a webcam. Physical communication has been replaced by online technologies. However, relatively little is known about the ... -
Emotion content versus feature content in faces presented under contineous flash suppression: Spatial frequency concent selectively contributes to access to awareness of emotion in faces
(2018)During breaking continuous flash suppression (b-CFS), a static image of increasing contrast and a dynamic mask are presented dichoptically. It has been suggested that images of threat faces gain preferential access to ... -
Employability of employees on the labour market.
(2017)This research focuses on the relationship between perceived employability and career paths. Perceived employability covers how people estimate their own chances in finding a new job. Career path refers to the kind of ... -
Encounters with a seemingly autonomous sidewalk delivery vehicle: interviews with incidentally copresent pedestrians
(2021)Although several studies have explored people’s opinions on sidewalk delivery vehicles, these have all been on the basis of hypothetical interactions. This study is the first in exploring people’s opinions after having ... -
Estimating cross-cultural affective food experience using explicit self-report and implicit physiological measures.
(2019)Emotional attitudes toward food have recently been identified as an important factor in consumer behavior. Food-related emotions are typically measured using explicit self-report measures. However, these measures do not ... -
Evaluating the effectiveness of uncertainty visualizations: A user-centered approach
(2018)The aim of this research is to compare the effectiveness of several visual representations of statistical data uncertainty and to explore the influence of individual differences among users. A large body of work shows that ... -
Exploring general outcome measures for decision making using a wearable eye tracker
(2020)Studying gaze behavior using eye tracking can give insights in decision making processes regarding food choices. However, commonly used analyses that involve area of interests (AOI’s) are difficult to implement in measurements ... -
Exploring influencing factors in shape-taste crossmodal correspondences with static and dynamic shapes
(2019)In recent years, many studies have been done, exploring factors in crossmodal correspondences between shape and taste. Building on this and an internship for TNO earlier this year, two online experiments have been ... -
Eye-tracking Without Screens: Potential Problems and How To Deal With Them
(2022)Any eye tracking set up has pros and cons and knowing the advantages and disadvantages of using a certain set up and how best to calibrate it is important for researchers choosing a setup for their study. When using an eye ...