In this research, we develop an affective computing method based on machine learning for emotion recognition using a wireless protocol and a wearable electroencephalography (EEG) custom-designed device.The system collects EEG signals using an eight-electrode placement on the scalp; two of these electrodes were placed in the frontal lobe, and the ot
Ophidiophobia (snake phobia) is one of the most common specific phobias.It has been proposed that specific phobia may have an evolutionary origin, and that attentional bias to specific items may promote the onset of phobia.Noninvasive imaging studies of patients with specific phobia reported that the medial prefrontal cortex navy drapery fabric (mP
Despite the initial function of hashtags as tools for sorting and aggregating information according to topics, the social media currently witness a diversity of uses diverging from the initial purpose.The aim of this article is to investigate the communicative functions of bekindtopets.com hashtags through a combined approach of literature review,
The use of consumer digital cameras or webcams to characterize and monitor different features has become prevalent in various domains, especially in environmental applications.Despite some promising results, such digital camera systems generally suffer from signal aberrations due to the on-board image processing systems and thus offer limited quant
Abstract Background Grasping and manipulating navy drapery fabric objects requires humans to adapt both grip and manipulation forces.When handling an object with both hands, the additional degrees of freedom introduce more levels to the redundancy of the object manipulation since we can distribute the contribution of the grip and manipulation force