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Showing 1 to 20 of 12628 for “"face"”.
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A Study of Face Embedding in Face Recognition
<p>Face Recognition has been a long-standing topic in computer vision and pattern recognition field because of its wide and important applications in our daily lives such as surveillance system, access control, and so on. The current modern face recognition model, which keeps only a couple of …
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Face Value
<p>The human face is the most universally important focus of communication. It is a significant source of identity and the most expressive means of nonverbal communication. We use our faces to speak and express emotions. We use faces to recognize friends or foes; to spot family resemblances; and to …
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Listening and speaking strategies in face-to-face interactions
Understanding spoken language is a fundamental human ability, crucial for facilitating social interaction and enabling the exchange of information. While it may appear a simple process, speech comprehension is a constant challenge, particularly when communication occurs in acoustically complex …
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Affect reflection technology in face-to-face service encounters
This thesis examines the role of facial expressions in dyadic interactions between a banking service provider and customer. We conduct experiments in which service providers manipulate their facial expressions while interacting with customers in one of three conditions: In the neutral condition the …
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Communication and Trust in Virtual and Face-to-Face Teams
… teams) completed an interdependent task either face-to-face, mediated by a videoconferencing telepresence robot, or mediated by a voice call. I collected measures of cognitive trust, trust propensity, communication quality, and team effectiveness, and conducted in-depth communication analyses. …
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Social evolution : opinions and behaviors in face-to-face networks
… no method to automatically capture fine-grained face-to-face interactions between people, to better model the diffusion process. In this thesis, we describe the use of colocation and communication sensors in 'socially aware' mobile phones to model the spread of opinions and behaviors of 78 …
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Investigation, Analysis, and Modeling of Longwall Face-to-Face Transfers
… to investigate, analyze, and model longwall face-to-face transfers through the use of operations research techniques. The purpose is to reduce overall transfer time and the variation of transfer times among operations within the U. S. longwall industry. The research includes: (1) …
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Face to Face: A Reflexive Thematic Analysis of Victim-Offender Mediation
Restorative justice (RJ) practices have become increasingly accepted as viable alternatives to the retributive justice system in Canada and the world as a whole. RJ has been appropriated from Indigenous knowledge, which is important to recognize. One example of RJ in our present colonial system is …
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The Influence of Online Teaching on Face -to -Face Teaching Practices
… the transfer of new pedagogical practices to the face-to-face course. The purpose of this study was to examine how online teaching experience may influence upcoming classroom teaching practices. This research study followed a qualitative research design, more specifically it was a collective case …
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Folk computing : designing technology to support face-to-face community building
… is designed to help build community in informal, face-to-face settings by giving users a playful way of revealing shared assumptions and interests. Drawing on the communicative process of folklore, Folk Computing devices facilitate the creation, circulation and tracking of new, digital forms of …
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Micro-Coordination: Looking into the details of face-to-face coordination
… often-taken-for-granted assumptions about face-to-face interactions and coordination, and (2) tie the observations to the creation of higher level constructs which, in turn, can affect subsequent design choices. More specifically, I ran two studies to look at how co-located people …
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Ultra-Fast and Multi-Dimensional Face Processing in a New Face Area
<p>Faces contain a plethora of information crucial for social interactions. Facial information could be transmitted either through facial shape or motion. The last two decades have established that a network of face-selective areas in the temporal lobe of macaque monkeys supports the visual …
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A Comparison of Online and Face-to-Face Achievement in Physical Science
… analysis of learning outcomes in both online and face-to-face grades 9-12 physical science courses. Archived data from a single school system were used for a comparative analysis of learning outcomes in high school physical science between students enrolled in online classes and students enrolled …
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Characteristics of Face-to-Face Communications in Agriculture Marketing and Customer Service
… how Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation used face-to-face and computer-mediated communication methods to communicate as an organization and the value their employees and members place on each communication method. Uses and Gratifications theory was used to guide this research and evaluate the …
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An implementation of face-to-face grounding in an embodied conversational agent
When people have a face-to-face conversation, they don't just spout information blindly-they work to make sure that both participants understand what has been said. This process of ensuring that what has been said is added to the common ground of the conversation is called grounding. This thesis …
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High resolution neural frontal face synthesis from face encodings using adversarial loss
… neural network method to synthesize a person's face imagery with frontal face and neutral expression, given a single unconstrained face photograph. We achieve this by a data-driven approach to train neural networks with a large-scale in-the-wild dataset of face images. The most common way to …
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China's Political Game Face
Foreigners have long been curious about the country that so fiercely safeguards the privacy of its internal affairs, but China’s historical reputation for manifesting an aloof and uninterested attitude towards others has left many outside scholars little choice but to study and examine the …
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Schemata in face recognition
… were tested to determine if schemata for faces show the same properties as schemata in other domains. A new theory of levels of schemata for faces was introduced. Experiment 1 showed that superior recognition of famous over unknown faces (as demonstrated in previous work) was due to …
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