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Do individual differences in dispositional behavioral tendencies, such as immersive tendency and need to belong, play a significant role in human-robot interaction? To answer this question, the present study conducted a 2 × 2 between-subjects experiment to examine the effects of immersive tendency (high vs. low) and need to belong (high vs. low) on individuals' perceptions of a social robot. Preliminary...
This paper presents the propensities of preference for Human Robot Interaction (HRI) according to different personalities and facial expressions of humans and robots. This study is based on two types of personalities: extroverted and introverted. According to the personality, the facial expressions are distinguished to express extroversion and introversion. The design of experiment is a 3 (participant's...
With the purpose of doing quantification of individual tacit knowledge, this paper discusses different classifications of the recessive knowledge from all aspects and does further research of the secondary index subordinating to every index in order to design a psychological scale including questions corresponding to different indexes, with which the individual tacit knowledge was successfully quantified.
By analyzing Positive Psychology's connotation and its important role in the enterprise employee management, combined with problems that exits in the enterprise employee management, to propose an effective way that using Positive Psychology to improve enterprise employee management.
For automobile companies, how to satisfy customers' demand is crucial in gaining survival and development in fierce competition. This paper starts with automobile customer behavior research, studies on the impacts of customer behavior on automobile, sets up inventory management index system based on customer behavior which is tested by empirical analysis.
The article finds that whether the economic man hypothesis, social man hypothesis, self-fulfillment man hypothesis or complex-man hypothesis shows only a certain or some specific assumption through comparative analysis of the commonness of traditional human nature hypothesis. They don't give the answer of what is “the ultimate goal of people”. Actually, these specific assumptions are just means and...
Whether the fractal images can be applied to design, depends on the degree satisfaction of users for images. In images, colors are the main visual factors of affecting emotion; it is used as the determinant in fractal images evaluation. The evaluation of color design is nonstatistical; it is easy to bring evaluating deviation because of personal bias. Using artificial neural network, the color psychological...
This study is a productivity review on the literature gleaned from SSCI, SCIE databases concerning the TRA and TAM of Web of Science created by ISL The result indicats that the number of literature productions on TRA and TAM is still growing. The main research development country is the United States, and from the analysis of the distribution of language, English is the most popular language for TRA...
Color is used as one of the most important factors that drive and direct people's daily lives. Different colors represent different color cognition or perception. Literature review showed that a domestic color cognition study for Taiwan citizens is needed Firstly, the study conducted a literature view and a focused group to generate a comprehensive set of color descriptions, 26 color cognition adjectives...
Human capital value measurement has been a difficult problem for researchers, especially for the top management team members. The paper use empirical research top to build a measurement system of TMT human capital value, the measurement system has 10 value factors and 21 measures.
Human gait has been proven to be of importance when trying to recognize people. In addition gait also conveys the emotional state of someone. The present study propose to objectively and systematically analyze gait data to highlight features that can characterize someone and the emotion conveyed. Rather than using gait stance phase, frequency, footstep length... we use the inverse kinematics data...
By comparing the eye movement data of Korean students reading Chinese texts with or without marks for word boundaries, the researcher has found that: (1) To Korean students, the Chinese words represent more psychological reality than Chinese characters. (2) The reading efficiency of Korean students could be immensely improved by inserting word boundary marks. It is, therefore, suggested that when...
Human-machine environment evaluation of digital workshop involves physical, chemical, psychological, social environment for the workshop and many other factors. Attribution reductions of rough set theory reduces some redundant targets which are less important to human environmental assessment, thus to obtain the important index and to improve the ergonomic effect of the environmental layout of the...
As one aspect of ergonomics, comfort is playing a significant role in product design with the development of people's awareness of health. In this paper, a brief review of concepts of sitting comfort is presented. The methods of sitting comfort evaluation are mainly divided into subjective evaluation and objective evaluation. Four questionnaires are introduced in the field of subjective evaluation,...
In the last decade, blogs have exploded in number, popularity and scope. However, many commentators and researchers speculate that blogs isolate readers in echo chambers, cutting them off from dissenting opinions. Our empirical paper tests this hypothesis. Using a hand-coded sample of over 1,000 comments from 33 of the world's top blogs, we find that agreement outnumbers disagreement in blog comments...
The brain is processing various acts and thoughts of humans. Among the functions of the brain, decision making, reasoning and complex calculation are governed by the frontal lobe. If the FLA (Frontal Lobe Activity) is kept low for a long period of time, human reasoning and decision making are interrupted and anti-social behaviors can emerge which are hardly understandable in view of common people...
Different from past research on the number of people front or rear effect that has focused on cognitive factors, this article examines the impact of incidental emotions and cognitive appraisals associated with these emotions on the number of people front or rear effect in the railway station. Experiment 1 compare anger and sadness and demonstrated that the number of people front or rear effect influenced...
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